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To: JohnM who wrote (112793)	8/25/2003 9:32:01 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Here's an interesting article from the new issue of Washington Monthly... washingtonmonthly.com looks like the Dems may want 'a battle tested candidate' to go up against Bush and Cheney (and Karl Rove's team of dirty tricksters)...This could be a very interesting election cycle...;-) -s2@IstillThinkClarkisTheSeaBiscuitCandidatefor'04.com

To: JohnM who wrote (112793)	8/26/2003 6:43:49 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Tony Bliar's PR whiz caught in a lie sundayherald.com

To: JohnM who wrote (112793)	8/26/2003 7:39:10 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

The growing doubts over the Iraq war threaten the president guardian.co.uk <<...Iraq has become a vast undertaking, which everyone claimed could not develop into another Vietnam but is beginning to arouse echoes of that existential American nightmare. A recent Washington Post investigation revealed more about the twisting of pre-war propaganda than Hutton is likely to expose. With heavy guns on Capitol Hill asking why post-war planning was so woefully deficient, Bush can't rely forever on single-syllable promises about terrorism not triumphing. Slowly, slowly, Americans confront the evidence that they are creating not a democracy but a terrorist state where there was none before. This is the mood of doubt into which some pertinent literature is being cast. The timing is right. Imperial America, by John Newhouse (coming next month from Knopf) is important enough to make waves. As well as chronicling the opportunities scandalously cast aside (by Blair as well as Bush) in the run-up to Iraq, Newhouse dissects the perils to come if the Pentagon psyche that allowed Iraq to happen applies itself to Iran and North Korea. If Bush's triumphant prophecies about the war being over continue to be disproved on the ground to such bloody effect as in the past two weeks, political traction against the man and his neo-con adventures can only strengthen...>>