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To: LindyBill who wrote (50691)	6/17/2004 5:35:40 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793980

"It seems we can tell from the trace elements of the explosion where the bomb was manufactured. You can't get away with "who, me?" " Perhaps but it certainly will take some time to determine whose bomb it is. As you said mullahs are crazy and not particularly bright either. But the delay does make retaliation harder. If you get nuked, you should be nuking immediately before it becomes a typical western morality play about whether we should sink to their level or not. Michael Moore would be well into his next movie by then showing pics of bush superimposed on the slim pickens character as he rode the bomb down in Strangelove. Mike

To: LindyBill who wrote (50691)	6/17/2004 7:15:18 PM
From: Rascal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793980

excerpt... >>>Which is why my own thinking keeps coming back to that debate in the fall of 2002. Bill Galston was right on the money. The issue with which I constantly wrestle is whether I, too, should have foreseen that this administration would not do the job right. To some extent, I had actually been expecting Bill's objection. Before my book was published, I asked Foreign Affairs Managing Editor Gideon Rose to critique the manuscript, and he warned me that the key question I might some day have to answer was whether I would still support a war fought without all the preparations I considered essential. Half of the argument of my book is devoted to the importance of going to war the right way (for example, by dealing with Al Qaeda and the war on terrorism first, restarting the Arab-Israeli peace process, building a large multinational coalition, employing at least 250,000 troops, and being ready to make a full commitment to what I expected would inevitably be a long and difficult process of reconstruction afterward). Gideon astutely observed that I might have to decide whether the war was still worth fighting if we were only going to do it the wrong way. So, thanks to Gideon's caution, I was ready with a rejoinder to Bill that night. I said it was up to the American people to ensure that the Bush administration fought the war the right way. I even had evidence to back up my point. I noted that, although in the spring of 2002, Bush officials had insisted that they did not need the blessings of either Congress or the United Nations to invade Iraq, thanks to strong popular pressure, President Bush had chosen to seek out a congressional resolution of support and to go back to the United Nations to secure international sanction. >>> MY DEBATE WITH BILL GALSTON. Mourning After by Kenneth Pollack tnr.com Rascal @SoImpressedByTek.com.com