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Posted on 10/12/2003 11:25:51 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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The $87 billion that President Bush wants isn't the critical number in the bitter debate over how much more we need to spend on Iraq.
The real number: the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001, at the hands of terrorists, and the American lives at stake in the years ahead.
This number is the only criterion in deciding how much money is spent to ensure Iraq becomes a strong democratic ally of the United States in the war against terrorism. This would be an ally that could help prevent the next attack that our own intelligence community says terrorists are plotting even now.
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Now, the attacks have become a historically distant nightmare buried by the noisy political battle over President Bush's pre-emptive war strategy. Democrats like Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts hysterically accuse Mr. Bush of hatching his war plans for political purposes to win next year's elections and using U.S. funds to bribe foreign leaders. "This whole thing was a fraud," Mr. Kennedy recently said.
A week ago, U.S. intelligence officials reported that one of Osama bin Laden's top henchmen, involved in planning September 11, said the original plan was supposed to involve twice as many planes. You would think this information would have reminded Mr., Kennedy and other critics what's really at stake. If 3,000 lives sounds horrendous, how about 30,000 lives? Or 300,000?
But apparently this is not worrying Mr. Kennedy or many prominent world leaders. Instead of rallying the United Nations to do all it can to support the United States, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan sharply questioned Mr. Bush's military policy to go after the terrorists before they come after us.
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