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To: JohnM who wrote (70506)	1/31/2003 11:03:49 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

I heard Gergen last night on the Charlie Rose Show... He feels Bush is governing from the hard right (Reagan governed more from the middle) and said Bush's presidency now hinges on the war in Iraq...Gergen mentioned that its possible that Bush may go down in history as someone who pushed this country too far. He thinks Clinton would be in favor of aggressively 'containing Iraq' and would be focussed much more on going after the Al Qaeda cells.

To: JohnM who wrote (70506)	1/31/2003 11:13:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

And your comment about his religious convictions only both reminds me of that and makes me more worried. "Tit for Tat." I knew I could drive you up a tree with that remark. Your dislike of the "Religious Right" is so intense that you now have visions of playing Peter Sellers role as "Capt. Lionel Mandrake," trying to stop 43 in Sterling Hayden's role as "Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper" who is setting off "Armageddon." :>) But the reality is that we cannot know Bush's motivation. And if his religious convictions lead him to focus on winning, that's fine as far as I am concerned. The last one we had was such an Intellectual, with no convictions, that he dithered around in 98 with Saddam instead of finishing him off, and cost the lives of a lot of Kurds doing it.