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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/kathleenparker/kp20040410.shtml

In a Parallel Universe Called 'What If.'

Kathleen Parker

April 10, 2004

NEW YORK - President-elect John F. Kerry's rise to the nation's
highest office came as little surprise following almost four years of
demonstrations against President George W. Bush for his bizarre attack
on the defenseless people of Afghanistan.

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, was the right man for a nation
outraged by the Bush administration's pre-emptive war, which, it now
seems clear, was based on highly speculative intelligence that Saudi
Arabian-born terrorist Osama bin Laden was planning an attack on the
United States.

Absent absolute proof of such an imminent attack, Bush's Sept. 10
bombing of Afghanistan earned him international condemnation and, in
all likelihood, an indictment in coming weeks. U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan, appearing last night on "Larry King Live," said the United
Nations' International Criminal Tribunal likely would bring charges of
genocide against Bush.

Bush also faces federal charges at home for his baseless arrest of 19
foreign nationals, many of them native Saudis, whose "crime" was
attending American flight schools. The Council on American-Islamic
Relations has joined the American Civil Liberties Union in a joint
suit against both Bush and former Attorney General John Ashcroft,
charging racial profiling, unlawful arrest and illegal search and
seizure.

Kerry's campaign mantra - "You go to war because you have to, not
because you want to" - clearly resonated with Americans as they tried
to make sense of Bush's Sept. 10 attack on Afghanistan. Neither the
president, nor national security adviser Condoleezza Rice convincingly
defended their actions during the recent "9-10 Commission" hearings,
which Congress ordered in response to public outcry.

The commission's purpose was to try to determine what compelled the
president to launch a war against Afghanistan. What kind of
intelligence suggested that such an act was justified?

The main target of the attack was bin Laden, friend to Afghanistan's
brutal Taliban regime, as well as al-Qaida training camps in that
war-ravaged nation. Al-Qaida, an international terrorist network, has
been blamed for numerous attacks on U.S. interests, including the USS
Cole bombing, which killed 17 sailors.

Even though Bush's military campaign was successful in ending the
oppressive Taliban regime, bin Laden apparently escaped and al-Qaida
continues to flourish.

Some intelligence sources speculate that bin Laden's operatives may be
trying to secure weapons of mass destruction from Iraq's Saddam
Hussein. Even though Saddam continues to send money to the families of
Palestinian terrorists and is believed to have programs for developing
WMD, Kerry says he is committed to containing Saddam through continued
sanctions and the U.N. oil-for-food program.

In any case, experts say that intelligence about Saddam's WMD program
is just as speculative as was the intelligence that prompted Bush to
attack Afghanistan. The man credited with sounding the alarm on bin
Laden and al-Qaida was Richard Clarke, a counterterrorism expert who
has served four presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush
and William Jefferson Clinton.

In a Jan. 25 memo to Rice, for instance, Clarke urged immediate
attention to several items of national security interest: the Northern
Alliance, covert aid, a significant new '02 budget authority to help
fight al-Qaida and a response to the USS Cole.

At Rice's and Clarke's urging, Bush called a meeting of principals
and, after "connecting the dots," decided to wage war against
Afghanistan. What did the dots say? Not much, in retrospect.
Apparently, the president decided to bomb a benign country on the
basis of "chatter" that hinted at "something big."

With no other details on the "big," and weaving together random bits
of information from a variety of questionable sources, Bush and
company decided that 19 fundamentalist Muslim fanatics would fly
airplanes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon on 9-11.

Under questioning by the "9-10 Commission," Clarke denied that his
memo was anything more than a historical overview with a "set of ideas
and a paper, mostly." The bipartisan commission concluded, therefore,
that Bush's "dot-connecting" had destroyed American credibility and
subjected the United States to increasing hostility in the Arab-Muslim
world.

Last week, Saddam Hussein and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat joined
French and German leaders in condemning Bush and urging the American
voters to cast their ballots for regime change in America. President
Kerry was the clear response to that call.

In a flourish of irony and the spirit of bon vivant for which the new
president is widely known, Kerry gave his acceptance speech from
Windows on the World, the elegant restaurant atop the World Trade
Center's Tower One.

And this has exactly WHAT to do with abortion?