[Vision2020] On Being a Principled Man

[Tony]

1)  One can make a mistake when very young and still become a good person. 
(Gier 0, truth 1)

2)  The claim that no one has been interviewed who remembers certain events 
of 30 years ago, does not prove events did not in fact occur.  (Gier 0, 
fairness 1)

3)  Both democrats and republicans supported the invasion of Iraq.  BOTH 
were sincerely mislead by faulty intel.  (Gier 0, accuracy 1)

4)  A president relies on intel provided by our intelligence services as 
well as those of our allies.  He doesn't have his own shoebox full of 
private intel and a turtle under his bed.  The fact that certain documents 
later appeared to be forged, does not mean both democrats and republicans 
can be faulted for relying on them prior to that discovery.  (Gier 0, reason 
1)

5)  The president may have been led to believe that an Al Qaeda operative 
had been sent to Iraq REGARDLESS of what this or that commission determined 
so later.  (Gier 0, relevance 1)

6)Bin Laden accepted Al-Zarqawi as one of theirs.  He WAS of like mind and 
waging the same murderous campaign.  The president was 100% accurate to 
describe Al-Zarqawi as Al Qaeda, nit-picking revisionists notwithstanding. 
(Gier 0, common sense 1)

7)  The president has not blamed ALL the violence in Iraq on Al Qaeda and 
our invasion was well planned and executed.  ( Gier 0, reality 1)

8)  The question of whether Iraq is involved in a civil war is NOT the most 
essential inquiry.  Whether replacing a brutal, anti-American sociopath with 
a pro-western democracy is in our best interests, is the valid question.  It 
is and Bush was right to do so.  (Gier 0, American security 1)

Yours for fair minded and patriotic academics,

-T
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nickgier at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 9:14 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] On Being a Principled Man


> Greetings:
>
> If Bush were a principled man, he would have at least done the following:
>
> 1. Shown up for his physical exam for the Texas National Guard.  The 
> taxpayers of this country had invested over $1 million in his training and 
> he just blew it off.
>
> 2. Shown up for duty witht the Alabama National Guard.  To this day no one 
> has come forward (except for one liar) to testify that they saw Bush with 
> his new unit.
>
> 3. Would have totally disconnected Osama bin Laden from Saddam Hussein, 
> especially when the CIA was telling him that there was no connection.  A 
> principled man would have told his VP to cut out that crap, too.
>
> 4. Would have had his own verified sources for announcing to the world 
> that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy uranium in Niger.  It was pulled from 
> an October, 2002 speech, but put back into the 2003 State of the Union 
> speech, with no additional evidence to back it. The claim was never 
> verified, the only documents having been proved to be forgeries.
>
> 5. Would not have said on February 8, 2003 that “an Al Qaeda operative was 
> sent to Iraq . . . for help in acquiring poisons and gases.” The 9/11 
> Report could find no evidence for this.
>
> 6. Would not have said that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a member of Al Qaeda, 
> when Osama bin Laden had rejected him as a flake.  Before Bush said this, 
> Rumsfeld and the CIA had already announced that there were no connections 
> before 2005, after Osama took a full 8 months to recognize him as one of 
> theirs.
>
> 7. Would hot have blamed all the violence in Iraq on Al Qaeda, when he 
> knows that only ten percent of the insurgency and sectarian violence is 
> due to foreign fighters.  Iraqi Sunnis don't need outsiders to tell them 
> that they have always been at odds with Muslims most of them consider to 
> be heretics.  As happened in Bosnia, all it takes is the chaos of an 
> ill-planned invasion to inflame these sectarian hatreds.
>
> 8. Would have directly answered one of the most essential questions about 
> this war: "Is it or is it not a civil war?” All evidence points to a Yes 
> answer, and if so, the U.S. should not be in the middle of a civil war. 
> An honest man would answer Yes or No, but all Mr. False Tough Guy has to 
> say is "It's tough."  That's not good enough, George.
>
> Yours for principled leaders,
>
> Nick Gier
>
>
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