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To: DPB101
Why are you casting this as a partisan issue? If you don't like "neocons" then invent another word for those who support current policies. There are supporters and opponents on both sides of the aisle.

I'm arguing that we're trying to overturn Muslim culture and political structures and that emphasis on Iraq and WMDs is only a small part of that strategy - emphasized because it was most saleable, likely exagerated for the same reason.

66 posted on 08/09/2003 10:50:47 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
I'm arguing that we're trying to overturn Muslim culture and political structures and that emphasis on Iraq and WMDs is only a small part of that strategy - emphasized because it was most saleable, likely exagerated for the same reason.

Actually, you were arging "the idea that the Administration exagerated the immediate dangers because its real reasons could not honestly be sold to the American public". We've already proven that "immediate" is a fantasy you and the left are trying to pass off as fact. The other part of your point is that Bush wants to "overturn Muslim Culture". That is also a fantasy. If it weren't, you wouldn't see the powers in Iraq kissing up to the Islamic leaders there.

No, Bush is going after Islamic Fundamentalism, not all of Islam. Even if he wanted to, it would be folly to declare war against over one-fifth of the population of the planet, millions of whom are residing within your own borders.

69 posted on 08/09/2003 11:39:38 AM PDT by TomB
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