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To: LindyBill who wrote (17220)	11/22/2003 1:48:58 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

That's a sick joke ... Bush can take comfort in his skills as a motivator. No one has drawn such big crowds to London since Princess Diana in 1997, though those crowds were sorry that she had died, while these crowds wish that Mr. Bush would die... The title is wishful thinking -- or more accurately what the propagandists wish the majority of voters were thinking. The truth is a bit more harsh - if the threat terrorism stops, Bush loses in '04. The accolades would rise in a successful attack on Iraq, the successful creation of Bush Preemption Doctrine, the final emergence of an economy growing more jobs in the US instead of elsewhere. But then the sad fact dawns at this point in the political calculus -- the American people don't need Bush anymore. The policy of polarization has created such distaste among so many that he would not survive. The only thing keeping Bush and the rest of the administration personalities from being removed is a devil's bargain between the public's distaste for unilateral and otherwise unAmerican actions, and the threat of terror. It is an unfortunate calculation, that only terror keeps Bush in office. In history this has shown itself even with leaders with great competence and public acceptance, such as Churchill, who fascinated the British with his intelligence, books and journalism, wrote his own speeches, led the country through war, and was then defeated.