Presidential Debate

[Chaerophon]

It had nothing to do with France, or Germany's attitiudes and the security council's inability to grow a spine and follow up rhetoric with tangible actions. 12 years of flaunting the will of the world, and playing cat and mouse with UNSCOM and UNMOVIC was all the vacillation that the US would tolerate.

Much of the Western world interpreted that comment in exactly the same way as D-Dave. Perhaps they were mistaken in doing so, and that wasn't Bush et al's intent; fair enough. The point is that he never really clarified. The speech was quite ambiguous, and you can't really blame people for interpreting it as such. I, for one, think that it is a bit of a stretch to suppose that the speech wasn't intentionally unclear.