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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] [i]Some have suggested that the delay has been politically motivated, and I have said: I am not willing to believe that. In fact, yesterday I said: We intend to give the president the benefit of the doubt.[/i] Masterful change of topic there. Those who say the delay is politically motivated are saying that DASCHLE is the one causing it. And they'd be right. The President has nothing to do with it. [i]over the course of the last several weeks, reports have surfaced which have led me to believe that indeed there are those who would politicize this war. [/i] And why, exactly, would anyone need to make the assumption that Bush has to politicize the war? It's far more likely that he sees Iraq for the threat that it is, and wants the power to deal with it. And I notice that Daschle doesn't tell us WHY the delays. [i]Dowd said war could be beneficial to the GOP in the 2002 elections.[/i] Yeah, he's a pollster. It's his job to figure out what people think. Still no evidence that Bush's push for an attack on Iraq is BASED on polls, especially considering that Sadaam IS a legitimate threat. [i]Well, why did this issue come before Washington and the country now?[/i] Um... because there's a threat, and a President that's finally willing to deal with it? Yes, politics does play some part in it, but its role is in forcing the Democrats into doing what needs to be done, regardless of whether they want to or not. [i]Cheney talks about war: electing Taff would aid war effort.[/i] This is a true statement, yes? If the person Taff is running against would be against the war, and Taff is for the war, then electing Taff would aid the war effort. Effectively, a question of whether the war serves the elections, or the elections can help serve the war. Daschle, for all he's talking, has no evidence for his POV. [i]Advice was given by Karl Rove, and the quote on the disk was: "Focus on war."[/i] Ah, the joys of out-of-context quotes... [i]I can't believe any president or any administration would politicize the war.[/i] Senators, OTOH, are another story. [i]the president is quoted in The Washington Post this morning as saying that the Democratic-controlled Senate is "not interested in the security of the American people."[/i] Again, no context. [i]You tell Sen. Inouye he is not interested in the security of the American people. You tell those who fought in Vietnam and in World War II they are not interested in the security of the American people.[/i] And these make up the majority of the Senate? I don't suppose anyone has stats on how many veterans are in the Senate, and their parties? [i]We have to get on with the business of our country.[/i] Again, who does he think is delaying this? [i]It is not too late to forget the pollsters, forget the campaign fund-raisers, forget making accusations about how interested in national security Democrats are; and let's get this job done right. [/i] What job? The job of NOT defending the country? 'Cause that seems to be what Daschle's advocating, seeing as there has been no vote... [i]They're marketing a war for political gain?[/i] Says Daschle. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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