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To: carranza2 who wrote (129093)	4/13/2004 1:16:47 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Will the UN cooperate, however, by giving Bush what he needs before the election is a critical question.> Acting unilaterally to invade and occupy Iraq and then to have it blow up in your face and have widespread violence and chaos with no security is an ass-backwards way to set the stage for inviting the UN to step in and pick up the pieces. We made a considerable mess out of Iraq -- it is hard to call the UN as if you were calling a cleaning lady to come clean up your mess. We could have built a coalition the likes of which Bush Sr. did -- but we could not do it with "regime change" as the cornerstone of US foreign policy, not only in Iraq, but wherever we feel like invading and overthrowing the governments of sovereign states. From the moment when Cheney first started visiting foreign capitals and telling them that the US had adopted a unilateral regime change policy, there was never any chance of building an effective coalition.