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Politics : John Kerry for President? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (1882)	10/4/2004 2:31:35 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3515

If the Iraqi hate us so much, maybe we should appear to back a kook that claims to hate us. The kook would lose, and we could try to work itout with the moderate we rally wanted. As far as the T-Shirt. Remember, Bush is the President. The Secret Service are required to protect him. Even if a confrontation was not started by the guy in a t-shirt, removing him might have been the fastest way to defuse the situation. Anecdotal evidence indicates that protecting the provious administration made them ill.

To: RMF who wrote (1882)	10/4/2004 9:49:42 AM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3515

If they back Allawi, then he's the guy we should go with. If they don't then we better be finding out WHO they would both support (that's not totally anti-U.S. and not a fundamentalist) and back THAT guy, but trying to ram our own guy (Allawi) down their throats . . . Who says we get any say over who the Iraqi's choose to elect? No one in the Bush administration has suggested we are going to "back" any particular candidate for office there, much less "ram our own guy down their throats." It about the process - that it's fair, democratic and viewed by the Iraqi people as legitimate - not "our guy" vs. "their guy." Are you trying to set up a straw man to tear down?