At 09:53 PM 10/6/2004 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The thing that miffed me was Cheneys' claim that the war in Iraq convinced
>Lybia to give up its nuc material. Even Bush's own negotiators said this
>wasn't true in an op ed piece that appeared in the NYT shortly after the
>agreement. Lybia did this because Kadafi (sp) finally realized that the
only way he
>could get his country back in the ecnomic world was to give up nucs. The
>agreement was many years in the making and involved diplomacy that spanned
the end
>of Clinton's term and the beginning of Bush's. But of course Dick knows
>this.
Oh come on, Zimmy, this is David Brin "logic" - where Republicans can never
ever be given credit for anything.
Is it supposed to be mere coincidence that the culmination of these many
years happened to occur right after the US invaded Iraq? Is it really so
over the top for Dick Cheney to believe that the US invading Iraq (and
previously having launched air strikes against Libya under Reagan) for
noncompliance with UN Disarmament resolutions had just a little something
to do with the timing of Qaddafi suddenly reaching this conclusion.
JDG
P.S. A sneak preview of David Brin's upcoming political salvo reveals that
he plans to credit Democrats with having invented pre-sliced bread..... ;-)
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