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To: david who wrote (63828)	12/31/2002 10:01:02 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

David, We expect too much from our leaders. They are not Gods--they are mere mortals like us. Thats why this business is so hard. Bush has put together a highly competent team, much like JFK did. But JFK's team ultimately gave us vietnam so even our revered ex-presidents are prone to this reality. FDR, weak and infirmed at the end of his presidency, was much too soft on Stalin. Reagan gave us Lebanon and so on. Hopefully the Bush team will ber right. What continues to bother me is my perception that in this most dangerous of times that many good americans on the left continue to root against him. I felt the same way about the right and how they allowed their hatred of the clintons to get the better of them. Perhaps bipartisanship is too much to ask for, but at least we should be rooting for success, even if the policy is not the one we might like. If Saddam went into exile tomorrow and Iraq adopted a democratic system, the US left would still not give bush credit. Mike