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To: JohnM who wrote (82357)	3/15/2003 12:12:02 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't know, John. It would be a little too "White Man's Burden" to call it "The Raj." Any suggestions? (Now there is a soft lob!) New York Times lindybill@theminstrelboytothewarhasgone.com March 16, 2003 The Man Who Would Be President By THOMAS POWERS If war comes, the phrase used so often in recent months, the fighting may be quick or prolonged, but few experts doubt that the huge American force now concentrating in the Middle East will prevail in the end. When the regime finally changes in Baghdad, and Saddam Hussein is dead, in custody or in exile, 70 years of Iraqi independence will end, political authority will pass into the hands of George W. Bush and Western rule will be planted on Arab soil for the first time since the French and British left the region in the middle of the last century. What then happens to Iraq's 23 million people, its oil and its relations with its neighbors will remain the personal responsibility of Mr. Bush and his successors in the White House until one of them chooses to surrender it. This dramatic expansion of President Bush's job description, little discussed during the long months of argument at the United Nations over Iraqi weapons, will be the immediate practical result of an American military victory and the occupation of Iraq by the Army's Central Command. As the military commander in chief, the president will have virtually unlimited power to change and rebuild Iraq as he sees fit, far greater power, for example, than Queen Victoria's over India in the 19th century. REST AT: nytimes.com