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Leonard Horwin                                                                                                                       September 16, 2005

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Having His Own Way
                                                                                                                              

Questions and Answers are cited below as

"Q" and "A"

1. Q: To what am I referring?

A: To at least two situations of international war consequence to the United States and its allies.

2. Q: To what situation No.1 am I referring?

A: To the terrorist-driven American planes flown by Osama bin Laden's crews into the Twin Towers, Pentagon, etc. on September 11, 2001.

3. Q: What did this President do then?

A: He told the people of the United States that he was going to mete out punishment against the perpetrators of that heinous world crime.

4. Q: Did the President do what he said he was going to do?

A: No.

5. Q: What did he do instead?

A: He diverted the nation's attention to the then ongoing Afghanistan War incident to oil and gas pipeline from Middle East and Asia to the Indian Ocean. This President knew that Saddam Hussein (Iraq ) had nothing whatever to do with the Twin Towers, etc. attack on the United States, but also knew that Osama bin Laden and his Al Quaeda were the perpetrators of that master crime.

6. Q: Why did the President select Saddam Hussein as the eventual main object of removal?

A: The Bush Administration had intended to rid the world of this particular dictator as a dangerous possibility of production of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and atomic weapons, but more immediately, because of his bloody conduct over his own people.

However, there are many terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein. We don't go to war with dictators unless they're committed or show intent to commit a crime against the United States and or its allies.

7. Q: What was the consequence of the President's mis-designation of Saddam Hussein as the planner and performer of the ghastly crime?

A: Instead of concentrating first on getting rid of major terrorist, Osama Bin Laden, the perpetrator of the Twin Tower - Pentagon, etc. crime, the President got the United States involved in a tremendously dangerous and totally unnecessary costly war which we are losing, and should never have started. It presently endangers the security of the United States at home and abroad.

8. Q: Does the President continue to do that?

A: Yes. He insists on doing this until he wins that war, and no matter what it costs.

9. Q: Is there a better way of protecting the security of the United States?

A: Yes.

10. Q: What is it?

A: Resolving the Iraq War as quickly and honorably as possible, - having in mind always too its desperately wrong origins.

11. Q: What's the second instance of the President's massive mis-employment of his security powers?

A: Deliberate extension of the same Iraq situation, instead of steps to get us and our allies out of it as soon as possible.

12. Q: How did he do that?

A: The people of Iraq have duly elected a proposed government, but are unable, at this time, to complete that government in a constitutional convention for the purpose.

13. Q: What holds it up? A: This same President Bush insists that the Iraqi people include in their oncoming administration the Baath Party which previously ran Iraq under its dictator, Saddam Hussein.

14. Q: Why does Mr. Bush want that?

A: He insists that the Baath Party, i.e., the party of the former dictator who is now awaiting trial for mass crimes, - has conservative elements in it which our President prefers for the Iraq government.

15. Q: Is this causing trouble?

A: It is one of the main blocks preventing Iraqis from forming a government they want, instead of having Mr. Bush do that for them in a major leadership aspect.

16. Q: And what are the resulting consequences?

A: Unless we get this issue solved, the United States finds itself caught in an unresolvable government makeup and war.

17. Q: How then can the security of the U.S. be gained here?

A: In case No. 1, by letting that war wind down as quickly as possible instead of letting losses overwhelm gains as they did at the time of the Viet Nam War.

In case No. 2, Mr. Bush must stop insisting that the party of the former Iraq dictator, (i.e. Baath Party) be included in the major leadership of the new Iraq government.

18. Q: Overall answer?

A: Stop the Iraq War and our involvement in it, by cutting our losses in time. Concentrate on the economic condition. The second situation must be the choice of the Iraq people, not Mr. Bush's choice of his so-called conservatives.

19. Q: Is that second situation dealt with in the press?

A: Very much so. Annexed hereto, Los Angeles Times, August 30, 2005, Opinion Section: "Iraq's fig leaf constitution," by Robert Sheer.

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cc: George W. Bush, President
George H.W. Bush, Former President
Richard Cheney, Vice President
John Kerry, Senator
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Colonel Oliver North
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security
Alberto Gonzales, U.S. Attorney General
Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel
His Excellency Daniel Ayalon Ambassador of Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government
Israel's "Women In Green"
National Unity Coalition for Israel
Arianna Huffington, Syndicated Columnist
Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem
Institute for Western Defense
Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic About the Middle East)
Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief - US News and World Report
Time Magazine
Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward
International Jerusalem Post
The Weekly Standard - Bill Kristol, Editor
The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and Op-Ed Department
The New York Times, Op-Ed Department
Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department
Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips, Medical Books for China International
MoveOn PAC/www.MoveonPac.Org.
Richard Miniter, Author: Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror