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To: LindyBill who wrote (71716)	2/6/2003 12:08:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Ahhh, "There's Something about Mary." McGrory "Jumped the Boomstick" today, John. For the reasons you cited. She is a liberal as you are. Perhaps it will bring you to the sticking point too. I can always dream, can't I? She's only about half way over, Bill. Check the last paragraph. I wasn't so sure about the al Qaeda connection. But I had heard enough to know that Saddam Hussein, with his stockpiles of nerve gas and death-dealing chemicals, is more of a menace than I had thought. I'm not ready for war yet. But Colin Powell has convinced me that it might be the only way to stop a fiend, and that if we do go, there is reason. It's my point. Powell advanced the argument. I don't think it's a binary bit, Bill, as you and the other manicheans around you and your friend Bush, seem to think. She's moved a distance. And Powell surely did that to a lot of folk. And he may have moved some who would have been bitter about an invasion to less so; others who would have gone about their business and ducked their heads, to mild support. But the "jumped the broomstick" metaphor suggests strong opposition to strong support. In that sense, Powell was right. No smoking gun.