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To: JohnM who wrote (112880)	8/26/2003 12:17:52 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Here's an interesting Washington Post cover story from last fall... uscrusade.com Presidential Tradition Of Embroidering Key Assertions Continues By Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 22, 2002; Page A01 This passage caught my attention... <<...."Everybody makes mistakes when they open their mouths and we forgive them," Brookings Institution scholar Stephen Hess said. Some of Bush's overstatements appear to be off-the-cuff mistakes. But, Hess said, "what worries me about some of these is they appear to be with foresight. This is about public policy in its grandest sense, about potential wars and who is our enemy, and a president has a special obligation to getting it right."...>> -s2@WeDeserveBetterLeadership.com draftwesleyclark.com

To: JohnM who wrote (112880)	8/26/2003 1:38:28 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

'If Blair falls'... ____________________________ <<...If Blair falls, and if that results in a withdrawal of the British forces from Iraq, the consequences for both the neo-con hegemony plan, and Bush’s reelection, are somewhere between severe and fatal...>> Message 19245577 ____________________ Blair and Bush: When time-honored ties become a short leash By William Pfaff The International Herald Tribune Thursday, July 24, 2003 iht.com <<...Tony Blair, after taking office in 1997, pledged his government to a "moral" foreign policy. The Bush government claims a moral result from its liberation of the Iraqis but also claims, when it wishes, a sovereign exemption from the constraints of international law and treaty obligation. It asserts a sovereign right to military domination of the planet. . Why does Tony Blair wish this slow suicide of one of Europe's greatest nations, whose independent legacy to modern Western civilization, and certainly to the United States, is so immense? Where is his electoral mandate for so enormous a decision? . Britain gets nothing from the United States in return (other than Congressional cheers and a gold medal for the prime minister). If Bush remains in office beyond next year, Britain might find itself implicated in what could become an American national tragedy. . Neither does the United States gain anything valuable, merely the satisfactions of possessing a complaisant satellite. . Far better for it to have an independent friend, who speaks its language, has independent weight in world affairs, possesses a major voice in the European Union, is capable on occasion of telling Washington home truths and, by using its independent influence, to force Washington to pay attention. . A British tragedy is in the making. For many of us who grew up under the decisive influence of Britain's history and literature, it implies an American tragedy as well...>>