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Eisboch wrote:

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The Dems were smart enough to NOT start a war with Iraq.



They advocated it, that's for sure, before and after Bush took office.
Kerry even recommended to Bill Clinton that we should take action to get
rid of Sadam.
Why are facts like this so easily brushed off?

You have to remember, Clinton was in his final two years as POTUS.
There's no way he would take any risks with an election coming up for
his then apparent successor, AGore.




You might want to look up "brinkmanship." Bush, apparently, never did.
We managed to avoid a shooting war for about 50 years with the Sovs via
brinkmanship.

The problem with Bush was that he wanted a shooting war with Iraq.