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To: American Spirit who wrote (2931)	4/11/2006 11:16:54 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Eugene McCarthy was a democrat. So was Bobby Kennedy. If the war goes bad, a peace candidate may emerge on the republican side and one with conservative credentials. Folks like mccain and lieberman(dem) may be swept aside by the reality of a worsening situation in iraq. Gingrich long shot chance for the nomination now may rest on his being the first to break publicly with bush on this issue.

To: American Spirit who wrote (2931)	4/11/2006 12:25:19 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Many influential Republicans, conservatives, breaking with Bush: William Buckley Jr INFLUENTIAL CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST AND TV PUNDIT 'One can't doubt the objective in Iraq has failed ... Iraqi animosities have proved uncontainable by an army of 130,000 Americans. Different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.' Francis Fukuyama [Founder and Signer of The Project for the New American Century] [http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm] AUTHOR AND LONG-TERM ADVOCATE OF TOPPLING SADDAM 'By invading Iraq, the Bush administration created a self-fulfilling prophecy: Iraq has now replaced Afghanistan as a magnet, a training ground and an operational base for jihadists, with plenty of American targets to shoot at.' Richard Perle ARCH-WARMONGER AND PIVOTAL REPUBLICAN HAWK 'The military campaign and its political aftermath were both passionately debated within the Bush administration. It got the war right and the aftermath wrong We should have understood that we needed Iraqi partners.' Andrew Sullivan PROMINENT COMMENTATOR AND INFLUENTIAL BLOGGER 'The world has learnt a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis ... than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response is not more spin but a sense of shame and sorrow.' George Will RIGHT-WING COLUMNIST ON 'THE WASHINGTON POST' AND TV PUNDIT 'Almost three years after the invasion, it is still not certain whether, or in what sense, Iraq is a nation. And after two elections and a referendum on the constitution, Iraq barely has a government.' the need for treatment washingtonpost.com