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To: JohnM who wrote (20335)	3/1/2002 12:44:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

First, given the rapid communications of this period as opposed to the Vietnam era, discontent would mobilize, in organized forms, much more quickly. And, second, if the Bushies fail to be more persuasive in the public forums, then a lot of support will simply not be there, and not be there from the outset. In that case, I have a simple prediction: you're wrong. If Bush opponents couldn't mobilize public opinion against the Gulf War, they're certainly not going to be able to do so now. Not only do we have ten more years of Saddam's track record to examine, but Araab terrorists blew up the WTC since then. The American people imo are inclined to give GW Bush a whole lotta leeway to do whatever he thinks is necessary to fix the problem over there. They're not going to ask for a legal case to indict Saddam for 9/11. All the President has to say, is, eight years of feckless Clinton drive-by responses to terrorism brought us 9/11; now we're going after the source of the problem -- Stage II, Iraq. They'll buy it. So will I, for that matter.