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To: Bilow who wrote (59805)	12/4/2002 11:08:16 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Where is that looooonnnnggg HAHAHAH stringer you send across the pages...? This post is terrific......you must have been a busy little beaver getting all those replies down and in some sort of order........ :D) Is there a way you can tell the rest of us how you are able to find all the replies so seemingly easily.....or do you go through the thread, post by post..... Somehow, I don't think that is what you do..... LOL (as you say!)

To: Bilow who wrote (59805)	12/4/2002 12:08:31 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Frum thinks that Bush's speechwriters should be "burning the Midnight Oil" to prepare for next weeks speech. >>>>>War Time It's now only 96 hours until President Bush makes the go or no-go decision on Iraq. The latest Security Council resolution, Resolution 1441 if you're keeping score, set December 8 as the deadline for Iraq to provide the world with a full and truthful declaration of its inventory of weapons of mass destruction and its programs for producing them. The Resolution stated that any "false statements or omissions" in the declaration would be considered another material breach, and thus grounds for war. Everyone expects that the Iraqi declaration will be riddled with lies, the only question is how many. Kofi Annan is positioning himself to say that however many lies Iraq tells, it's not enough lies to justify action. (This guy really missed his chance to become a regular on Geraldo Rivera's talk show during the impeachment battle!) There will be very great pressure on President Bush to follow the soggy Annan line, both from outside and inside the US government. Should he do so, the United States will be launched upon a bootless rerun of the inspections game of the 1990s, and Republicans will lose their right to jeer at Clinton's weakness on terror (see above). I can't promise that it is impossible that Bush will give in. I just know that they'll have to give him a personality transplant first. My own guess, for what it's worth, is that Michael Gerson and Co. in the White House speechwriting department have been arriving at work at 4 in the morning all this week to write the speech Bush will give on Monday or Tuesday explaining that Iraq has exhausted its final chance, and that the Hans Blix farce is over.<<<<<< nationalreview.com