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Friday, September 12, 2003
Surprising Hard Questions For Bush From Unlikely Source
If Iraqi institutions and people, after decades of brutal Baathist rule, are in far worse shape than we anticipated, how can we expeditiously turn control over to the Iraqis?
The war on terrorism, you said, "will require sacrifice?" Other than men and women in uniform, whom will you call on to make sacrifices?
Does the sanctity of the tax cuts and the reality of massive budget deficits crowd out even homeland security measures, such as protecting commercial airliners from shoulder-launched missiles?
David Kaye may discover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, not of the scope and lethality cited as the casus belli for the war; was this an intelligence failure or do you think some of those weapons are in others' hands?
A broad-based consensus concurs with Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel that the administration did a "miserable job" in postwar planning; will there be any personal responsibility?
Who gave more financial support to the 9/11 al Qaeda terrorists: the Iraqi ruling class under Saddam or the Saudi Arabian ruling class?
Al Hunt in the Wall Street Journal.
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