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To: JohnM who wrote (81061)	3/10/2003 10:10:48 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Misreading Power By William Raspberry Columnist The Washington Post Monday, March 10, 2003 washingtonpost.com <<...Sometimes our approach to Iraq takes on a sort of Strangelove quality. That is, in order to accomplish the perfectly rational goal of disarming Saddam Hussein, President Bush has to give a convincing impression of a crazy man -- a Texas-tough megalomaniac who will let nothing shake him from his war-bound course. But the strategy works only if Bush assumes the Iraqi madman is rational enough to know when he's been outbluffed. The fear is that one (or both) of these men will overplay his hand and hurl us into a war no sane person could want and whose most serious casualties could come after the bombing stops. How did we come to such a pass? Bruce Jentleson, who is unusually smart about such things, thinks at least part of the explanation lies in the syllogism that seems to drive the thinking of the president, Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld's top deputy, Paul Wolfowitz. The syllogism, starkly put, is: We are the most powerful nation in the world. We want to do good things. Getting rid of Hussein is a good thing. Therefore, we have both the power and the moral duty to rid the world of Hussein -- no matter what the rest of the world thinks...>>