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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (26467)	8/26/2003 12:50:16 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Bush goes scot-free as Blair bears the brunt: WMDs claim dawn.com <<...The Republican majority in Congress has refused to establish a special commission to investigate the allegations that the administration manipulated intelligence reports to justify the war. According to Joe Lieberman, a Democratic candidate for president, Bush broke "a basic bond of truth" with the American people by inserting false and misleading information. But Bush, who said his speech was cleared by intelligence services, has had to face nothing more politically dangerous than a news conference. His closest ally, Blair, on the other hand, while adept at fending off questions in parliament, faces an independent judicial inquiry headed by a feisty judge that has already shone a great deal of light on the inner workings of British government...>>

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (26467)	8/26/2003 1:03:22 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

It's challenging enough to divine the undercurrents churning in one’s own government. To understand the ramifications of those currents in a foreign government is well beyond my limited abilities – even if we are “separated by a common language”. Hence, I have no choice, but to use the infamous “if”. 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. JMO lurqer