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To: Gary Walker who wrote (147050)	9/6/2002 12:27:09 AM
From: GST	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi Gary: "Bush is losing the PR war to Saddam". We have taken a strong PR hand on Iraq and squandered it in the last 12 months. We clearly defined a policy goal of "regime change" and then did nothing to explain the logic supporting this goal. We took it for granted because we had such a huge potential advantage. Now we are in the hole and trying to work our way out of it. When you say the logic is "self-defense" the world will ask "are you under attack from Iraq". The answer is "no, but we might be some day". Well Gary, we might be under attack by a lot of countries. The international community will have trouble adjusting to the idea that we now think we can invade any country we see as a potential future threat (and the potential threat itself is not very well spelled out in the case of Iraq). This simply won't fly and we will be left with a choice between backing down or going it alone at tremendous direct and indirect cost. My argument has been, tell the truth: We can not tolerate a hostile regime with nuclear capability in the oil patch.