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To: TimF who wrote (150664)	11/2/2004 5:21:13 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Its all over but the shouting, but to respond: Searching a particular dump or even searching ammo dumps in general isn't even planned at the level of the president. NO ONE has suggested that the President is responsible for setting targets or developing the minutia of specific battle plans. But the President IS responsible for the overall war plan, which importantly includes setting goals. * IF the goal was to secure arms and components of "weapons of mass destruction" from getting in the hands of terrorists, * THEN then the war plan had better have specific provision for achieving those goals. Clearly the war plan, which the President approved as is his responsibility to do so, did not take into account the requirements necessary to achieve those goals. This should strike any observant citizen as very odd, since the entire rationale for going to war was "to secure weapons of mass destruction" lest they get in the hands of terrorists. If the war plan doesn't speak to the primary goal, we can take the next leap of logic and start to believe that the war was called for reasons, purposes and goals other than what was stated at the outset. Which is where we are now. Hopefully Bush will be an ex-president soon and we can have inquiries to get to the bottom of things.