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To: Neocon who wrote (113341)	8/31/2003 4:46:49 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

To intimidate someone is to render them timid with your superior power. Sharp public criticism of one by the most powerful human being on earth, God help us, for failing to back his, and Blair's, assertions about Iraq's weapons programs in his reports, might well have been felt by Blix as attempts at intimidation. Even if his job was "high profile," lol. And he might have felt intimidated, or timid, as the pressure occurred (he complained a lot), but have had the courage not to change his reports despite such feelings. Or maybe the public pressure didn't even make him nervous, just as it wouldn't have made you nervous. Me, it would have made nervous. They say that J. Edgar Hoover had the power to intimidate even presidents.