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To: John Carragher who wrote (84991)	3/22/2003 5:20:10 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

I though Keller addressed the facade of the 2nd UN resolution quite directly, actually. Let us pray the combat is better planned and executed than the diplomacy of the past few weeks, which managed to make the U.S. seem simultaneously inflated and very small. The first U.N. resolution was coyly general in its wording, but the second — in all its misbegotten versions — was simply fraudulent, designed to cover up its real meaning, which was not disarmament but regime change. As Mr. Powell was deployed time and again to dispense credulity-straining information about our intelligence, about our purpose, I kept thinking of the wised-up passages in his autobiography, when he deplored the way Vietnam had eroded America's national conviction with "euphemism, lies and self-deception." Too bad that the UN didn't perform its proper role of dutifully rubber-stamping what was put in front of it to give Tony Blair a little political cover, but that's life.