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To: stockman_scott who wrote (53314)	10/20/2002 9:42:07 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Dowd is genuinely wicked funny.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (53314)	10/20/2002 4:02:51 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Dowd is wicked, as John says. But she's one of a very few who are keeping an eye on Perle and the secret war cabinet that seems to be more or less determining policy for W. The idea of this cozy little unconfirmed, unmonitored group running things, with Newt Gingrich and Dan Quayle sitting in, where Henry Kissinger is the lonely voice of "moderation", is a bit creepy. Krugman also is keeping an eye out. From last Wednesday's column, which you posted when it came out, the Muraweic plan still seems to be Perle's plan. What's clear is that the biggest terrorist threat we face is that one or more big Muslim countries will be radicalized. And yet that's a threat hawks advising the administration don't seem to take seriously. The administration adviser Richard Perle, quoted by Josh Marshall in The Washington Monthly, brushes off concerns that an invasion of Iraq might undermine the stability of Middle Eastern regimes: "Mubarak is no great shakes. Surely we can do better. . . ." nytimes.com You'd think that as a democracy surely we can do better than some unconfirmed hothead secretly making war plans upon war plans and decided what elections are legitimate and not based on acquiescence to those plans (e.g. Schroeder in Germany), but that's life. Seems like just yesterday when Ken Lay and the other Friends of Cheney meeting in secret with the Veep to set energy policy was a big deal. Those were the days.