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If we ignore the rhetoric the administration is using to avoid this kind of argument, we can see that the Bush administration has used law enforcement techniques very frequently against terrorism. The argument, as Utah pointed out, is not whether law enforcement is good, but whether and when it should be supplemented by military action.
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Ummm, no. With respect, the "rhetoric" is the entire point. Kerry said that although the war on terror will be "occasionally military," it is "primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world." At the time, the administration and other right-wingers attacked that statement. See, e.g.
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Now, you are saying that not only was Kerry right, but that the administration recognized and recognizes that he was right and has been acting accordingly all along. All the while saying otherwise to drum up support for the Iraq war.
If the war is so great, why does it require such rhetorical games to sell to the American people?