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To: Lane3 who wrote (23425)	7/9/2006 2:47:35 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542108

Yet an awful lot of moves seem designed to advance the latter, with the former only an intermittently unconvincing excuse?

To: Lane3 who wrote (23425)	7/9/2006 3:43:25 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542108

Sure, but I can't imagine it's higher up on the to-do list than the WOT. One of those unanticipated thingies is that the Bush folk, most of all including Cheney, come into power with clearly and obviously stated intentions to revive the imperial presidency, the one that Nixon lost. But how to do it. Hiding the energy taskforce in Cheney's hideaway was not a large deal but it was clearly part of the plan. Then the unanticipated, 9-11, hits. And the two things become one, the imperial presidency and this odd, endless, whatever called the WOT. So each feeds the other.

To: Lane3 who wrote (23425)	7/9/2006 5:55:09 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542108

If he were to be forced (pardon the abstraction) to choose between advancing the WOT and advancing the imperial presidency, I'm confident he would pursue the former and sacrifice the latter. Maybe GWB would, but I doubt Cheney and the other hardcore neos would.

To: Lane3 who wrote (23425)	7/9/2006 8:38:46 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542108

The WOT is the priority. bush feels the weight of it. If he were to be forced (pardon the abstraction) to choose between advancing the WOT and advancing the imperial presidency, I'm confident he would pursue the former and sacrifice the latter. Begrudgingly, maybe, but he would. Does anyone know how Bush thinks? Has he ever put any of his thoughts on paper? I mean things he has written on his own. We know that he never took things too seriously before he was 40 years old, but what do we know about him after he turned 40. Do we know what kind of books he has read. Do we know if he has ever put his thought down on paper. We know how you think. We know how John thinks. But do we know how Bush thinks?