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Originally posted by bilmore
To be fair, I think what he's saying (Ty, not Kerry) is that the guy standing guard outside asked for permission to carry a big stick so that he could scare away bad guys, and we said okay, here's your stick, but then he went and clobbered some bad guy with it, which is far beyond the scope of use he implied that he would make of it.
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Not exactly. "....but then he went and clobbered Iraq with it even after we learned that Iraq didn't have any WMD, and he did it without involving the UN (etc.), and without planning for the post-war." And there's no complaint about implied scope of us that I see -- the point is not that Bush said he wouldn't go to war if there were no WMD, because few were thinking about that contingency.
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