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To: JohnM who wrote (18926)	2/15/2002 10:21:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I think, either, they will decide to do something besides an invasion, talk the big talk (the opposite of TR) but diddle around with Iraq resistance groups, whatever. If we do that, then the Bush II foreign policy will look just like Clinton II foreign policy. And that is the main reason I don't believe that they will do that. Rumsfield & Cheney (not to mention Wolfowitz or Perle) are all too aware of what Clinton's foreign policy did to our reputation in the Middle East, and how we're paying for it now. Even Colin Powell is now talking about getting a regime change in Iraq. Powell is the ultimate bureaucrat; he gives his advice, then goes with the program. Diddling around with resistance groups won't do anything without American troops. Saddam is too successful a dictator for that. Not for nothing does he take Stalin as his role model. I think everybody's aware of that. If we want regime change, it's going to involve a campaign, whatever sort gets decided upon.

To: JohnM who wrote (18926)	2/16/2002 2:12:45 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Iran Cheered at Salt Lake City, Bush 43 Scowls John, Re: The Bushistas have been stepping all over themselves National Public Radio really surprised me this morning. They were doing a report on Iran and brought up the really sad moment that Bush 43 had at the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympiad. When the Iranian athletes were introduced, the crowd gave them a hearty round of applause. Bush, in his elite box, was seen to scowl. This replaced the usual smirk. Our fearless uberkaiser had been rejected by his erstwhile adoring masses. He was crestfallen. As a petite dauphine, he's a real crack-up. Totally predictable. And predictably maladaptive to anything that bears on reality. It is, after all, only his agenda, and Frank Carlucci and Dick Perle's script that matters. Sad, so sad that we have to endure this episode. This will go down in history as that worst administration since Warren Harding disgraced the office. -R.