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One of the best posts I've read in a long time!

Apparently no one read this conclusion:

At worst, the anti-terrorist coalition would currently be bombing the wrong country. At best, the world would see that some of President Bush's closest advisers - his father, Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney, to name but three - made a catastrophic error in 1991, when they ended the Gulf war without toppling Saddam.

This is not good news.

Tex, the idea that we are bombing the wrong country is ludicrous, and clearly repudiated by the rest of the article. Al-Qaeda and bin-Laden are up to their eyeballs in this. By taking them out first, we make victory in Iraq easier, since they can't be sending reinforcements to Hussein. We may have to stabilize some other countries around Iraq first before we take on Hussein.

As for not finishing him off the first time, that remains debatable. If Toon hadn't dropped the ball, we might not be facing this mess.

It's predictable that the left-wing Observer would try to give this news an anti-Bush spin. But the hard news this article reports is nevertheless highly significant.

I wonder if it's just a coincidence that only now is the news coming out that bin Laden has admitted responsibility for Sept. 11.

Good points all around! By this, I assume you are talking about bc failing to nail OBL after the first WTC attack and the Embassy bombing in S Africa?:

If Toon hadn't dropped the ball, we might not be facing this mess.