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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (45037)	5/17/2004 9:13:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793772

BTW, of course any reporters reputation is "part of the debate". Especially when a reporter has Hersh's track record and relies heavily on anonymous sources instead of evidence which his readers can check. Well, you may wish to debate Hersh's reputation. Be my guest. We can put it up on the rack and go to it. But Hersh's reputation will not be a part of the senate debate on these matters. That will be driven by public perceptions and the desires of the Republicans to keep control of the Senate. We are headed down a trail in which the next fateful step is a senate bi-partisan investigation of this entire matter. Because the Reps wish to keep control of the Senate. I don't see how Rumsfeld survives that. Bush hopes to survive it by remembering just how ruthless the family can be. I'm only kidding about Powell as Secretary of Defense; just trying to raise a few hackles here given the perception some of you have of him. But I'm not kidding when I say I expect the replacement to be someone easily confirmed by the senate. And, even then, the confirmation hearings will be brutal. And the biggest problem right now is that the Bush folk are treating this as a PR problem; not a serious moral crisis. Which it is. A moral crisis; a continuing world wide legitimacy crisis, in which you think the US reputation has reached just about as low as possible. And then, the incompetence, arrogance, whatever of this administration, we discover is complicitous in yet another heartbreaker.