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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (463968)	9/24/2003 10:01:23 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Soon I hope....just prior to the election would be good.... Pinheads forget it took 4 years to unravel the Iraqi WMD program after Gulf War I. JLA

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (463968)	9/24/2003 10:02:26 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769667

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (463968)	9/24/2003 10:06:34 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

U.S. Official: Iraq War Showed U.S. Not Paper Tiger Tue September 23, 2003 02:03 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The war against Iraq showed Islamic extremists who target Americans that the United States was no "paper tiger" that would crumble in the face of terrorism, a U.S. defense official said on Tuesday. "One of the premises of the terrorist is that the United States is weak and decadent. They're convinced that we're a paper tiger, and if they can inflict blows, a few blows, upon us that we will crumble," said Peter Rodman, assistant defense secretary for international security affairs. By taking action against Iraq, President Bush demonstrated "the United States is not weak, and not paralyzed and not decadent, and I think that was a necessary precondition of success in the global war on terrorism," Rodman told an American Bar Association breakfast. Some critics have said Bush has stretched U.S. resources too thin and that Washington should have made more headway on fighting terrorism before taking on Iraq. The conflict with extremists will end at some point because "ideologies can be defeated" as was the case with the Soviet Union which collapsed, Rodman said. "I'm confident that this has a terminal point, that the day will come when we can say 'well we've passed through this phase of history'," he said. Extremists do not want the United States to succeed in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan because that could herald "major changes" in the Middle East, he said. "Just in the wake of our military success in Iraq, you see political reform is the buzz word in the Arab world," Rodman said. "There are trends in the Gulf, and now even Saudi Arabia where rulers talk about political reform, about democratizing, about creating a different basis of legitimacy more in line with what the rest of the world understands as constitutional government," he said. "That's why the extremists want to take us on in Iraq and derail all of it because they know what is at stake," Rodman said. asia.reuters.com