[PEN-L:34163] RE: Re: Re: RE: $4 billion

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:34162] Re: Re: RE: $4 billion

even if the war isn't short, sharp, and sweet (to the US), Bush's poll numbers will definitely rise at the time of the start of the war. Something about waving the flag. It always seems to work.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Dorman [mailto:dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:37 AM
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> Subject: [PEN-L:34162] Re: Re: RE: $4 billion
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>
> As for the political response, it looks to me as though the
> Bushies are
> willing to risk a roll of the dice: they are betting that a
> war against
> Iraq will be swift, have few US casualties, lead to a few months of
> feel-good news stories about individuals or communities who now have
> hope (as there were after the invasion of Afghanistan) and
> result in a
> big bounce in the opinion polls.  The rest of the world, they think,
> will just adapt.  From this perspective, it's difficult to
> see how the
> peace movement can stave off the war.  I really hope I'm
> missing something.
>
> Peter
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> > Devine, James wrote:
> >
> >> BTW, I am wondering about the Bushies' response to the peace
> >> movement. Are they simply ignoring it? or are they doing
> Cointelpro
> >> again? or what?
> >
> >
> > What's your guess? These guys are total maximalists, rounding up
> > people like old A. Mitchell Palmer. They've got to have some
> > Cointelpro in the works. It'd be reckless to assume otherwise.
> >
> > Doug
>
>
>