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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: MSI who wrote (13121)	6/5/2002 1:57:44 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 93284

I do think that the Bush Administration is 'good for Europe'. Europe to Compete With U.S. Global Positioning System By Caroline Chaumont Special to The Washington Post Thursday, May 30, 2002; Page E04 Rockets are supposed to begin lifting off in 2006 to carry 30 European satellites into orbit. The satellites will emit signals that will allow people with receivers -- drivers, sailors, rescue workers and pilots, for example -- to determine their precise locations on Earth. It is similar to what the U.S. Global Positioning System already does, and the pending launch of a rival is fueling a new transatlantic dispute. U.S. officials have called Europe's $3.2 billion Galileo project wasteful and say Europe could better spend the money upgrading its armed forces. But European governments argue that Galileo is crucial to the future of their high-tech industries and to loosening their dependence on the United States. Transportation ministers of the 15 European Union countries approved the project in March. Now U.S. and EU officials are meeting to see whether they can make the systems compatible and ensure that a standard receiving unit could work with both systems. Objections to Galileo stem in part from longtime U.S. claims that Europe doesn't pay its fair share of defense costs. But the satellite project also could become a classic trade dispute if the United States concludes that its companies are being unfairly cut out of Galileo-related business........ The debate came as many European policymakers were concluding that the Bush administration is "unilateralist," willing to press ahead without consulting its allies. The United States had dropped out of the Kyoto global-warming treaty, was planning a missile-defense system and taking what Europeans see as an excessively military approach to terrorism............ washingtonpost.com jttmab

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