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To: stockman_scott who wrote (26817)	8/30/2003 7:14:38 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (3) of 89467

Bush is in very deep shit in Iraq. Rummie and Cheney don't care, they are rolling the dice with somebody else's money. But Karl Rove cares because he has one mission in life and that's make sure Bush gets another term. And Bush cares because he doesn't want to be a one termer like his daddy. The only way Bush can save his bacon now and stave off some very strong Democratic candidates is to bring in the UN in Iraq in a very big way. He can't nibble at it the way the Neocons want to limit him to. Bush needs the UN, and that means the very "old Europe" players that Rumsfeld ridiculed in the runup to the war. Without France, Germany and Russia on board with lots of cash and major commitments of troops and supplies, Bush is very likely to lose in 04. His economic record is a bad joke that isn't going to play even in Peoria. There's too many people out of work and the path ahead for the middle class is getting rougher and rougher. So now Bush is going to have to do what his daddy did BEFORE the last Gulf war, and that is build a coalition in a UN framework. What's tough about it is that so much has gone wrong and he and his Neocon claque have so thumbed their noses at the very powers that Bush desperately needs that they have no reason to bail him out except the hope of saving the dream of the UN as a force for peace. Bush doesn't have the pull in his own administration to offer the other big players the commercial opportunities that would sweeten the pot for them and their constituents. Cheney and Rummie won't give up their war loot, not even to Bush. If Bush had any stones, he'd start making policy on his own that would bail out the country, provide hope to our desperate and dying troops in Iraq, and, in doing the right thing for once, do the right thing for the USA and for the world. Too bad Bush doesn't have any stones. Let's hope that at least it costs him the election. There won't be much else to cheer about until then.

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