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I repeat myself:
I am opposed to any military action in another Arab country unless we have clear evidence that they weapons of mass destruction or support terrorists and by no other means can be force to stop those activities. Military action without support of the United Nations just causes more hatred in the Islamic world and produces new terrorism.

I do a lot of my business abroad and the climate has already changed so much that I decided to stop trading in Indonesia. If now Richard Perle and the other hawks get even more power it will become more and more difficult to do business abroad at all.

Can you imagine how this helps to gain trading partners in Belgium or Switzerland?:

Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/31/wcons31.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/12/31/ixnewstop.html

President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.

The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror, also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies.

The manifesto is contained in a new book by Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser and "intellectual guru" of the hardline neo-conservative movement, and David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter. They give warning of a faltering of the "will to win" in Washington.

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It may be assumed that their instincts at least are shared by hawks inside the government, whose twin power bases are the Pentagon's civilian leadership and the office of the vice-president, Dick Cheney.

The book calls for tough action against France and its dreams of offsetting US power. "We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington," it states.