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Terrorism is the Issue
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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
If you feel that way, then you should hold the Bush administration accountable for ignoring that war to pursue a common tyrant having, even by their accounts, the most fleeting of contacts with terrorists.
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He was defending the Bush Administration's decision not to bomb Zarqawi so that there'd be a pretext to invade Iraq. Killing terrorists was not as important as trying to ensure international support for the invasion.*
* A bogus rationale that I have not seen repeated anywhere other than this site, but let's assume that was it for the sake of argument.
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