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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18933)	2/15/2002 10:33:50 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

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. Well, we could argue for sometime over the successes and failures of the Clinton foreign policy but I think the largest limiting factor on it remains the same as that with the Bush folk and that's the willingness of US public opinion to stomach something as dramatic as an invasion. If they try to do it without some triggering event, some very large triggering event that can be linked to Saddam, then I predict we will go back to Vietnam style opposition at home and a one-term Bush presidency. If he waits for a second term, it will cripple anything else he might wish to do. John (getting up on a soap box and getting worked up)