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To: D. Long who wrote (83650)	3/19/2003 3:08:54 AM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Derek, One interesting moment shown on the Frontline shows comes from that period of time. Clinton was contemplating war with Iraq so Berger, Albright and Cohen do a Town Hall meeting. The reaction from that Town Hall audience is everybit as vitriolic as the current debate. Berger, Albright and Cohen look like they didn't see it coming and they don't know what to say. It is true that Clinton would have had difficult fighting a war during the dog days of the scandal. However, even without the scandal it looks like it would have been very very difficult to overcome that level on animosity without 9-11 to demonstrate the need to act. Conventional wisdom says that the world's anger is aimed at Bush not America but that Frontline clip reminded me of those days and I think the anger is aimed at American power and will land on whoever sits in the Oval office. Just a the post-9/11 sentiment turned ugly when Bush promised to use American power in Iraq, my guess is that Clinton's popularity in Europe would have fallen off a cliff if he went to war with Iraq in '98. Paul

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