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To: stockman_scott who wrote (230095)	5/8/2007 1:16:28 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So if Poppy hadn't intervened and prevented George from going to Vietnam.....

To: stockman_scott who wrote (230095)	5/8/2007 2:26:32 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

In 1956, when Britain, France and Israel colluded to invade Egypt, Eisenhower forced them to withdraw, toppling Anthony Eden’s government in London and threatening financial reprisals against Israel. That repudiation of what Ike called “old fashioned gunboat diplomacy” not only kept the peace but enhanced American prestige throughout the world. Ah yes, Ike's rescuing of Nasser led to gratitude throughout the Arab world, keeping the Nasser and the Arabs in America's camp in the Cold War...in some alternate history. Doing irrevocable harm to England and France, while aiding an Arab world that ran straight into the arms of the USSR, was a diplomatic blunder of the first order, for which America is still paying. So naturally your sources love it.