On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:01:05 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .

As to what actions Bush should have taken with regard to the
information provided by Tenet, I can't say. Perhaps Bush should have
fired Tenet. Perhaps Bush still believes that Saddam did have WMD.
Perhaps those WMD are now in Syria. There are all kinds of "perhaps"
out there, other than the "Bush lied" perhaps.

I hope you're not suggesting that it's OK for Bush to send us to war because
independent of outside advice, he had a personal belief that there were
WMDs. A hunch? A private message he got from god while wandering around the
ranch? We don't send soldiers to die because of hunches.

Hope no further. I suggested that Bush got his advice from the same
source(s) as Gephardt. Based on the information he made a decision. I
believe he felt no more deceived than Gephardt, who still does not
feel deceived (witness the use of the present tense in his comment to
the Washington Post),

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!