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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Feb 11 2004, 11:54 AM
I don't think that anyone could have gotten everyone to agree on a course of action. That being said, I doubt any other President, including most Republicans, could have done as BAD a job as Bush did.
I think even the Bush Administration could have brought more countries on board the Iraq situation with a good faith effort to negotiate with the UN, or with countries individually. Juvinile chest thumping and sophomoric expressions of "patriotism" aside, the fact that we couldn't even get Mexico and Canada to agree with the course we took speaks volumes about how poorly the diplomacy was conducted (although any Western Hemisphere country from Mexico south has plenty of good reasons to not want to see a resurgence in unilateral U.S. military excursions).
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While I am not thrilled with the way Bush handled things, ( for completely opossite reasons as you I am sure) there is no way the UN was going to support the US.
Bush should not have even pandered to the UN. Then to go back a few more times, especially when we knew that France would veto no matter what was stupid.
The real question is why does France even have a permanant spot on the Security Council?