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To: Brian Sullivan who wrote (96944)	5/2/2003 5:24:39 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 281500

However you have France going around yelling that they will veto anything with the words Iraq in it, and they announce this publicly before a second resolution was even written. They were doing this, unfortunately, with the approval of most of their people. Our job, in that case, is to forget about trying to convince the government and make our pitch directly to the people. There are conservatives in France, and moderates, and if we had taken a somewhat different tack, we could have convinced a fair number of them that we were right and their government was wrong. Many of the governments that supported us did so against the will of their people, going out on a limb to do it. Many that opposed us did so with popular support. We needed to reverse that equation, putting our opponents out on the limb instead of our supporters. We didn't sell very well.