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To: mph who wrote (27472)	8/30/2006 4:04:01 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543105

Allow me to turn that around - if you start with an interest in policy analysis, decide what you think the threat is and a reasonable response, then criticizing a policy that doesn't match your analysis makes sense. It could be Bush's policy or Hillary's policy or LBJ's policy or whoever. I really don't care. I don't especially admire or even like most politicians who ever served in Washington. The good eggs are the rare exception. So I am looking at what I believe the actual threat to be, not what I should fear in an emotional context. The fact that Bush and his cronies keep trumping up the emotional volume hurts our chances to arrive at a rational analysis and solution. So it becomes political blame placed on Bush, since it is his policies and conduct in question at the moment. If he pursued a more rational policy, I would be the first to stand up and applaud, as I have often with his immigration proposals.

To: mph who wrote (27472)	8/30/2006 4:08:47 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543105

I sense that the anti-Bush political rhetoric downplays the terrorist threat in an effort to challenge the policies. It's a political game. I can't say whether that's true in general, but today, on this thread, the criticism of Bush policies was largely that he has the wrong analysis. Everyone agreed that "terrorism" and "terrorists" are serious problems. Just that we need better analysis as to who that is and what measures they will employ. The Bush folk got that wrong.