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To: GST who wrote (112866)	8/26/2003 10:58:27 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

GST, Who is comparing him to Bush besides you? I am simply pointing out that Clark did not get on with his boss, the President or his British counterparts. As a result of his pressure to move the conflict to the ground - he was overriden in the last month of the conflict and relieved of command a short time later. I happen to like Wesley Clark, but his inability to reach consenus on the Kosovo operation does not make him an obvious multilateralist. At the time I agreed with him against the Pentagon establishment. The whole fiasco with the Apaches was mind bogling. John

To: GST who wrote (112866)	8/26/2003 11:32:14 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

The dangerous part of the mess we are making of the occupation in Iraq is expectations. <<...I have never believed from Day One that we could impose a democratic government on Iraq. Iraq is a hard place to govern. As one Iraqi put it, every time a good guy tried to govern the country, they killed him pretty quickly. I suspect in the end we will get frustrated, appoint our own dictator and leave. The question is how many lives and how many billions of dollars it will cost before Washington's neoconservatives have all their misconceptions smashed on the rocks of reality...>> Message 19245074