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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Road Walker who wrote (188896)5/20/2004 7:02:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1578016
 
re: As for scapegoating Rummy I'm not sure that would help Bush much.

Today, Pres Bush took decisive action in the face of the moral.... It would put it behind him, everything else that comes of it would be second page news. Now it goes on forever.


I don't think it would work like that. Some people view the current actions as decisive, others who do not would view pushing Rummy out to be enough and might stop complaining, but others would view Rummy as a scapegoat and would say that Rummy falling on his sword changes nothing, still others would take that as proof that things are even worse then they are now and that the prisoner abuse was sanctioned by Rummy and perhaps even by Bush with Rummy taking the fall to cover for Bush. People would have a lot of different responses but the bottom line is that pushing Rummy out isn't likely to make the news story a minor one.

Tim
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