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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: eims2000 who wrote (22682)	3/18/2003 12:33:20 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 25898

8pm on Wednesday (ET) he is officially toast if he has not left the country....

To: eims2000 who wrote (22682)	3/18/2003 12:39:59 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

When did the 48 hours start? I would say it was at the time he said it. But I'm not sure anyone is actually going watch the clock. I think the allies will get over this There's a credibility issue that doesn't go away even if/when one finds WMD in Iraq. There has been too much intelligence provided that was wrong. Far-fetched claims of relationship between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. Forged documents. .....Finding WMD does not prove the forged documents were not forged. Credibility will be an issue at least throughout this Administration. And for the Muslim world, they'll assume that the WMDs were planted or the evidence was false. They lied before, why should we believe them now. ... ironically, the same argument that we use to say you shouldn't believe Saddam jttmab

To: eims2000 who wrote (22682)	3/18/2003 1:02:28 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Much of the damages to the relations with the traditional allies like France and Germany, friends like Russia have become the fact. They are very likely going to be the long term damages and may get worse due to the nature of the Iraq war and the deep distrust to the Bush administration. A short Iraq war won't change the above situation by much. The Iraq invasion is just the initial step for "democratize" the whole Middle East. Big "Preempt Strike" targets are on top of the Bush/Sharon's long-term agenda, everyone knows that.