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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (335787)4/29/2007 11:10:24 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 1574316
 
It's true, you can find the documents here:
kristof.blogs.nytimes.com

re: I remember posting awhile before about how I felt there had been a historic moment when the window was open for a rapprochment with Iran and Bush squandered it with his Axis of Evil speech.

Your Republican instincts are correct. No Republican President, including Bush 1, Reagan and Nixon took the neoconservatives seriously; they were all pragmatists. They would have jumped at that opportunity. But it didn't fit in with the Neo ideological agenda. How the world could have been different!

re: Why can't we elect good leaders?

We have, in general. We've had a succession of pretty good Presidents until Bush. (You can quibble about Carter but I'm not sure anyone would have done a lot better given the circumstances). How Bush got reelected is a mystery.
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