“I know how you can get him to notice you”
■ In ABC News/Washington Post poll, President Bush earns 64 percent approval rating. . . . “We need to remind everybody that tyrants don’t respond to any kind of appeasement,” says national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, on Meet the Press. “Tyrants respond to toughness. And that was true in the 1930s and 1940s when we failed to respond to tyranny and it is true today.”. . . Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) discusses France, on Fox News: “an aging actress of the 1940s. . . . She’s still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn’t have the face for it.” . . . More McCain: “If you embrace containment, you must accept proliferation, and proliferation—not just unchecked but accelerated—will make the violent century just passed seem an era of remarkable tranquility in comparison.” . . . Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, in Hill testimony: “We have entered what may very well prove to be the most dangerous security environment the world has ever known.” . . . In Public Opinion Strategies poll, 63 percent support military action to remove Hussein from power. . . . In CNN/USA Today poll, 36 percent say Iraq poses “immediate threat,” 56 percent say “long-term but not immediate threat,” and 6 percent say no threat. . . . In Zogby poll, 49 percent say they would support sending own son or daughter to war to remove Hussein from power.
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