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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: michael97123 who wrote (113581)9/1/2003 1:45:26 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I don't think that increasing the size of the military or raising taxes to pay for it are acceptable political realities for Bush and/or Rove, i.e., the political side of the operation. That makes the US population more aware of the costs of the Iraqi operation which I don't think they wish to do. For political reasons.

So long as it appears to cost little, or the genuine costs are slightly or heavily hidden, Bush can talk, in his usual abstract terms, about the long term future gains for the ME of his policies. But as the costs pinch, either because the hidden becomes visible or because they actually have to acknowledge new expenses, the poll approvals for Iraq do a nose dive.

My reading is that they are genuinely caught between whatever you wish to invoke, the rock and a hard place or whatever else. One of the interesting things to watch now is whether the political side of the operation can extract them from a place the ideologues put them.
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