<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10>In a message dated 10/29/04 6:29:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lbo-talk-request@lbo-talk.org writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">And Doug's point, meanwhile, isn't that the DP won't remain a turd. It<BR>
will. But how do you know which course of events will unfold? Are you 100<BR>
percent sure Kerry will continue the occupation? What if he's lying to get<BR>
elected? What if he does appoint Biden to be a special ME envoy and Biden<BR>
forces some sanity on Israel? Not likely, of course, but not impossible.<BR>
And what's wrong with giving Kerry the LBJ treatment in 2008, if things<BR>
aren't better?<BR>
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So you should vote for Kerry in the hope that he may be lying? But what if Bush is lying, and really thinking about how to get out of the Mesopotamian mire?</FONT></HTML>