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Politics : The Donkey's Inn
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (768)10/21/2001 2:07:09 PM
From: Mephisto   of 15516
 
"Bush description is entirely wrong! He says the anti-missile treaty was signed when the two countries "hated each other". They never hated each other. They mistrusted each other."

Didn't other countries sign the treaty? There have been comments about the use of Bush's simplistic language.
He divides the world into two camps? good and evil. Good and evil are relative to who uses the term
and how that person defines it. For instance, when I glanced at the morning paper I learned that it has been a tradition with Pashtun men in in Pakistan and Afghanistan to fire bullets into the air whenever a baby boy is born. The tradition goes back to the days when the tribe robbed the British dead of their muskets. Today,
when they fire their rifles or assault weapons into the air the bullets fall back to the earth and kill people.
The police think it is wrong. Mr. Bush might even call it evil. The Pashtun who kill their own still do it,
although there are Pashtun who think it is wrong, I am sure.

In any case, the uses of the term "hatred" when referring to another country isn't diplomatic.
Yes, Bush partied and drank his way through university. And he still won't admit whether he used
cocaine or was busted for it. For a man in his position, a degree in law might be more useful, but
when Mr. Bush applied to the University of Texas Law School for admission he was turned down. Obviously,
he didn't do very well on the pre-law entrance exam.
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