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To: Suma who wrote (39942)	3/19/2004 3:56:53 PM
From: Mannie	Respond to of 89467

suma, you have to give Rummy credit for doing what is most important to this administration..stay on message. In a Rovian world, you paint the world in which you want to live and insist it is reality. These guys are lunatics.

To: Suma who wrote (39942)	3/19/2004 4:09:34 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

You are rewriting history to suit your Bush hating worldview.... Fact is the UN inspectors could not verify what happened to Saddam's WMD which had previously been discovered and Saddam refused to cooperate to provide that verification.....ergo...the war resulted.....it is very foolish to look back with hindsight if indeed it is determined that there were no WMD and say the war is folly when the war could have been avoided if Saddam simply abided by his agreements with the world community and UN resolutions.....we did NOT "contrive" that there were WMD...every major intel service in the world shared the belief Saddam had WMD....further the Administration never inked Iraq and 9/11....that is a pinhead fantasy.... Thankfully the majority of Americans realize that going to Iraq was the right thing to do and will re-elect Bush in the fall.....

To: Suma who wrote (39942)	3/21/2004 1:11:05 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Citizen McCain nytimes.com Editorial The New York Times Published: March 21, 2004 Senator John McCain is nothing if not an interesting politician. In a world currently divided into hostile Democratic and Republican planets, he's spun off on an orbit all his own. Ever since his unsuccessful run for the Republican nomination in 2000, Mr. McCain has been more popular outside his party than in it. In the current, narrowly divided Senate, bipartisan could mean "supported by the Democrats and John McCain." Last week, Washington was abuzz with speculation that Mr. McCain might consider running for vice president with John Kerry. After leaving the door slightly open in one TV interview, the senator from Arizona ruled that out. But it's hard to give up a rumor that tasty. Mr. McCain, after all, is bound to Mr. Kerry by their shared experiences in Vietnam. There's also the matter of their shared dislike of President Bush. Mr. McCain started the speculation afresh when he told another TV interviewer — the man is on air more often than Major League Baseball — that he did not agree with the Bush campaign mantra that Mr. Kerry is "weak on defense." And Democrats keep noting that one of Mr. McCain's signature issues — balanced budgets — has moved over to their side of the agenda in recent years. The talk says less about Mr. McCain's chances of switching parties than it does about Washington politics. What keeps getting him into trouble, Mr. McCain said recently, is that he is friends with Mr. Kerry and Democrats like John Edwards and Joseph Lieberman. These days, senators who hang out with their peers from the opposite party are both extremely scarce and slightly suspect.