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To: SirRealist who wrote (90529)	4/6/2003 1:56:25 AM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

BTW, fun speculation but it isn't going to happen. However, I cannot point you at them right now so we will just have to wait. Like I said, if it turns out that way, Bush will be ruined and he will deserve to be ruined. He didn't have to go with the WMD positioning (never my favorite) so he damn well better know where the stuff is. If not, Karl Rove will shoot him personally. Paul Some more from Norm Ornstein: aei.org Publication Date: April 2, 2003 Someday, perhaps soon, the war with Iraq will end, and the domestic agenda will re-emerge front and center. Despite the setbacks and the hand-wringing, there is a very great chance that this war will end with an American victory, and with lots of iraqis surfacing, when they are certain Saddam Hussein and his cronies are gone, to tell heart-rending and hair-raising tales of butchery in the Hussein regime. (If you don't believe that, read the chilling Sports Illustrated story a couple of weeks ago about the torture and murder by Hussein's sadistic son of athletes and coaches who didn't measure up.) If so, Bush may well end up with an 80 percent-plus approval rating, a huge influx of political capital and a deep resolve to use it on his domestic priorities, which of course are dominated by ever-larger tax cuts.

To: SirRealist who wrote (90529)	4/7/2003 12:06:05 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Bush administration officials have scaled back how much they talk about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, preparing for the possibility that it may take weeks or even months to determine whether Saddam Hussein was in fact stockpiling chemical and biological arms -- one of the administration's main justifications for going to war. The vast majority of people I know or have just talked to have never believed that WMD was a primary reason for this invasion. Most saw it as a mixture of business/oil interests, and a real desire to stabilize the region going forward with the elimination of someone who's been a thorn in the side of that region for all too long. The invasion has been a global PR disaster for the USA if nothing else, and I don't anticipate the lack of any WMD to worsen anything if no humanitarian or other disaster is the outcome of this. There just aren't likely to be worldwide "No WMD Found" marches once the war ends and a long process of rebuilding is started. The extreme left will chatter away no matter what the outcome is, and are best left on ignore. We really have a responsibility and the chance to leave things in the Iraq, and the region itself, better than just another 12 years of status quo with Saddam still in power, more pointless weapons inspections by the UN, just like the past 12 years.