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To: JohnM who wrote (2421)	6/20/2003 1:14:05 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793939

First, what happened between 98 and 03. Second, it now looks as if the Iraqis did not have the capabilities to be an imminent threat. Well, if Saddam threw out the inspectors in 1998 in order to meekly destroy all his WMDs and WMD programs, while still suffering the sanctions and eventual violent overthrow for them, you gotta admit, he sure had everybody fooled. And I do mean everybody. I will continue to believe an alternate hypothesis, on the working assumption that Saddam was not totally and completely irrational, even by the standards of paranoid dictators. As for "no capacity to be an imminent threat" - sure he did. All he had to do is fund and arm terrorists, and we know he was doing that. Have you forgotten Salman Pak already?

To: JohnM who wrote (2421)	6/20/2003 6:05:48 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793939

Here is some real "Inside Politics," John. From a Blogger >>>D.C. Circuit calculus: Today's edition of The Washington Post reports here that "President Bush plans to nominate White House lawyer Brett M. Kavanaugh, an author of independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's report on President Bill Clinton, for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Republican sources said yesterday." As the article goes on to explain, "The D.C. Circuit court has openings on its 11th and 12th seats. Republicans blocked Clinton from filling at least one of them by arguing that additional judges were not needed." In fact, the D.C. Circuit currently has three vacancies and one pending nominee, Miguel A. Estrada. The challenge facing the White House is that if it nominates someone to the D.C. Circuit whom the Democratic leadership views as more acceptable than Estrada, that nominee will be confirmed, and Estrada -- whose nomination occurred more than two years ago and is now the subject of a filibuster -- will be left behind, holding a nomination to a seat that in the recent past Republicans have said did not need to be filled. So, if the White House indeed does nominate individuals to the eleventh and twelfth seats on the D.C. Circuit, we are likely to receive answers to the trivia question "Which D.C. Circuit nominees does the White House believe the Democratic leadership will find even more unpalatable than Miguel A. Estrada?" Anything else would represent a clear sign from the White House that the Estrada filibuster battle cannot be won and is no longer worth fighting. posted at 7:21 AM by Howard Bashman<<<<