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To: KonKilo who wrote (80903)	3/10/2003 5:53:00 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Do you think that alienating our traditional allies and putting the leaders of our few remaining friends on the political hotseat is the best way to accomplish a new global security apparatus? Your back! And up to your old tricks of trying to start a "question" seminar. So, do you think that letting our traditional allies continue to believe they can run our Foreign Policy by opposing us at the UN, instead of making them see these old ways won't work any more, is the best way to handle them?

To: KonKilo who wrote (80903)	3/10/2003 9:11:05 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bush Sr. Warning Over Unilateral Action Roland Watson The Times UK Monday 10 March 2003 truthout.org <<...The first President Bush has told his son that hopes of peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with Iraq were not backed by international unity...>>

To: KonKilo who wrote (80903)	3/10/2003 6:00:12 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bush tactics strengthen UN brake on US power By William Pfaff Syndicated Columnist The Boston Globe 3/10/2003 boston.com <<...In the future, shifting coalitions of the willing are likely to work through the UN and other major international institutions and use the unprecedented means the Internet provides for mass mobilization to counterbalance or contain the United States on many economic and politico-military issues. It may also be that the America will no longer be entirely free to set the international agenda. Rogue states, war against terrorism, anti-proliferation, trade globalization and other American causes may not automatically dominate international political and media attention. Washington only now is discovering that its efforts to override or divide opposition to what it wants on Iraq have created a coherent international opposition that before was not there. It has diminished rather than affirmed its old international leadership...>>