[Museum Twenty]

I stipulated that we need to have the outcome we desire.

I don't think W will settle for less than the outcome he wants, including a satisfactory (free) future for the Iraqi people.

However, I think W is perfectly willing to let the UN save face by letting the end game appear as if the UN is not being pushed around by the US.

So long as the UN ends up doing what W wants, I think he would be happy to let them save face.

It takes a lot of character to put the emphasis on the actual results, rather than getting on the public credit. The longer this situation has been going on, the more impressed I am by our President. He is a statesman, not a politician.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I agree with you...GW is about results not process...sharing credit not hogging the spotlight...protecting innocent Iraqi lives and the lives of American soldiers...he's no fool...if this proposal goes down the US and Britain will play a pivotal role in helping to create a functioning government in Iraq...and we'll look like heroes doing it...the USA and Britain will also get some oil deals to help our economies and compensate us for our expenditures to date...I pray that Saddam steps down and war can be prevented.