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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53293)	10/19/2002 9:58:22 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Likewise for the 'just keep up containment' arguments. This is all going to be uncertain as we have no clear window into Saddam's head, he knows even less about us, and every player in the game is guessing at the psychology of every other player. Good point. But the "keep up containment" arguments have about that them a structure of historical experience; the argument about Saddam's future acquisition of nukes and what he would do have a reading, however good, of Saddam's intentions but not much else. As for the imputation that whatever Bush says is automatically disbelieved, I find that very widely assumed. A conversation with three friends, none of my political stripes, in the local library Friday was exactly that. And I think Bush has walked himself into that dilemma by the number of reasons he has offered for invading Iraq and the number of times the "facts" he offered turned out to be not true.