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To: NickSE who wrote (16032)	11/13/2003 9:48:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

Why is Bush making this awful trip to Britain? Nothing to gain, and the British mobs will end up all over our TV for three days. Big mistake. Frum comments on it, and then says. Iraq for the Iraqis It’s a weird paradox that those Washington bureaucracies that most intensely opposed the war in Iraq in the first place (State, CIA) are now most determined to stay in Iraq as long as possible. The battle being waged in Washington today is over how fast to devolve political authority to Iraqis. State wants to wait until a constitution has been written and a new government elected. Defense wants to involve a provisional government right now (actually they wanted one a year ago) – and let Iraqis preside, obviously with American help, over the transition to an elected government. This is the decision being haggled over during Bremer’s current visit to Washington. One way to ensure that it is made wisely is to accept this rule: Those who have been wrong in the past, as State and CIA have been, should be listened to more skeptically in the future. nationalreview.com