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To: GST who wrote (200031)	8/29/2006 1:16:06 PM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 281500

It is indeed rare that anything is "all one persons fault". I had no opinion about Bush when he was elected. I wanted to see what he would do and did not believe Gore was up to the job. I thought it was a contest between "boring" and "stiffly boring". I liked what Bush said about having a consistent moral compass wrt foreign policy. That would be really nice for a change. Little did I know that meant a foreign policy that was completely self-serving to near term interests and whims. But at the end of the day, it was Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in the driver's seat, and this mess is entirely their fault. Agreed. Nor will it improve while Bush is still in office. They don't understand the mid-east and they don't want to. They have they're own dream of the way it's supposed to work and can't fathom why it's not working that way. Everything they did was right. jttmab