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>From http://www.unionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=13552

Jack Kenny:
The regime Bush changes may be his
By JACK KENNY

JACK KENNY

Overly ambitious AGs seek to set national environmental policy
EVEN SOME OF THE high priests and acolytes of his
father’s New World Order are starting to pan the major opus thus far of Bush 43, 
“Overture
to a Regime Change.” Last week Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the first
President Bush, wrote an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal advising against a 
military
attack on Iraq. Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger has voiced his doubts
about the need for military action and Secretary of State Colin Powell, chairman of 
the Joint
Chiefs during the Gulf War, has been described in news reports as opposed to invading 
Iraq
to remove Saddam Hussein.

Scowcroft worries that a war with Iraq, opposed by virtually all our allies, will 
divert our
energies and threaten our resources for the war on terrorism, for which international
cooperation is essential. He cites “scant evidence” to tie Saddam to the Sept. 11 
attacks. As
for the “weapons of mass destruction” the Iraqi dictator is said to be developing, his 
instinct
for survival should preclude his using them against the United States. But an invasion 
aimed
at removing him from power, Scowcroft warned, might convince Saddam he has nothing
left to lose, “leading him to unleash whatever weapons of mass destruction he 
possesses.”
His first strike would likely be against Israel, which might respond with nuclear 
weapons,
“unleashing an Armageddon in the Middle East.”

It’s possible that Scowcroft is overly pessimistic and the Bush administration can 
execute
“regime change” in Baghdad without those dire consequences. Still, what is to be 
gained by
running those risks? Well, we’ll save our President’s reputation, Richard Perle, a 
former
Reagan administration official, explained to The New York Times. “The failure to take 
on
Saddam after what the President said would produce such a collapse of confidence in the
President that it would set back the war on terrorism,” said Perle.

In other words, since the President has gone out on a limb, we’re obliged to buy the 
tree,
redeeming it in American and Iraqi blood. That and the untold billions the war will 
cost are
what we must pay for the President’s credibility. It must be a scarce commodity to 
demand
so high a price. Indeed, credibility has been in short supply at the White House since 
the
last time Calvin Coolidge said, “No comment.”

The regime-changer-in-chief, meanwhile, appears to be taking the warnings in stride.
“People should be allowed to express their opinions,” Mr. Bush said rather 
magnanimously.
“But America needs to know, I’ll be making up my mind based upon the latest 
intelligence
and how best to protect our own country plus our friends and allies.” It’s nice to 
know the
President is keeping an open mind on the subject. But he seems to be suggesting that, 
for
all the useful information he may receive from others, the decision is entirely his to 
make.
The President alone will decide whether we go to war with Iraq.

Will Congress be asked for its approval? Perhaps, but it will likely be a pro forma 
gesture,
with the administration making it clear that the planned military action will go 
forward
whether or not Congress grants its imprimatur. That, at least, is how the Congress was
dealt with in the Persian Gulf War, when the Bush I regime determined it had all the
authority for war it needed from the United Nations. The Congress of the United States 
had
become a nonessential appendage to the New World Order.

The alleged lawmakers, to whom our Constitution gives the power to declare war, may be
asked to endorse a decision they had no role in making. Too few members of Congress,
and far too few Republicans, will ask the question that was so well put by Rep. Barney
Frank of Massachusetts in the Gulf War debate, when several of his colleagues had 
called
on members to “support American policy.” “What are we,” asked Frank, “the Canadian
consulate?”

Bush, meanwhile, is calling on Congress for spending restraints, as the deficit for the
current fiscal year is expected to be $165 billion and climbing. A war with Iraq would 
add to
that considerably. With war raging and deficits soaring, Congress will likely pass a 
sizable
tax increase. Bush will, of course, have to climb over his own “dead body” to sign it, 
but he
won’t have to look too far to find a precedent. The economy, in the meantime, may go
sliding into the tank. Have we seen this movie before?

Saddam’s days may be numbered, but he does have a knack for beating the Bushes — or at
least surviving them in office. One unintended consequence of Bush’s war with Iraq may 
be
a “regime change”in Washington in 2004.

— Manchester resident Jack Kenny is a freelance writer.
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