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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (221236)2/28/2005 10:17:28 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (4) of 1572965
 
I have no illusions about Bush. I think he starts out with a good vision and then he botches the execution quite a bit. One of his consistent botches is his corporatism, as you like to call it. I've seen him do that with his tax cuts, his health care program, and now with the companies in Iraq. However, he only has 4 more years in the White House.

I am a believer that the status quo in the Middle East was no longer acceptable. It had boiled over and burned the U.S. badly. As a result, we had to do something. What Bush did was to tip the first domino and then the second, until the dominos started to fall on their own. I credit Bush for this. What happens next will happen, because Bush was the catalyst. So in a very real sense, the Democracy sweeping the Middle East right now should be credited to Bush.

Do I like that Bush is in bed with corporations? Of course not. If he wasn't in bed with corporations and with oil, we would have already had a major push in this country to wean ourselves off of oil or at least to cut our consumption drastically. I continue to believe that cutting oil consumption has to be a foundational element to re-aligning our national security strategy, along with pressing for reform in the Middle East with our military and with our diplomacy.

But the liberals on this thread continue to deny that anything good is happening in the Middle East. This, despite all the evidence to the contrary.
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