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To: LindyBill who wrote (100525)	6/6/2003 1:43:16 PM
From: EJhonsa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Isn't it amazing that the real contest is "Bush vs State?" Roosevelt used to send personal emissaries overseas because he could not get State to do what he wanted. They are really a "Rogue Government" in Foggy Bottom. Joel Mowbray, the National Review columnist who did an expose on the State Department's "Visa Express" program in Saudi Arabia, is coming out with a book on this issue. I doubt that I'll agree with all of it, but it should be interesting: amazon.com I think the heart of the problem at the State Department is one that engulfs virtually all government bureaucracies, including the DoD: An institutionalized mentality, admitted or not, that the expansion of the bureaucracy's clout and prestige trumps all other interests. And just as corporations and special-interest groups can exploit this mentality when dealing with bureaucracies that preside over domestic affairs, foreign governments can do so with Foggy Bottom. Eric