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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (188032)	9/30/2001 3:41:13 PM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769670

Tom especially this comment from the article speaks volumes. "To disagree with this assessment would require us to throw out the very standards by which we judge our own society's shortcomings. For example, you can't say (as Jesse Jackson does all of the time) that the United States is racist or authoritarian or a police-state, and hold that Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, et al., aren't far worse, without being intellectually dishonest. You can't say that it's a crime that America "lets" so many of its people live in poverty, and then think that Saddam Hussein, with his dozens of palaces, is in some way a more enlightened leader. The same holds even for our "allies" Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. " None of the liberals on this board would dare relocate to Africa, the Middle East or China. Yet they hold us to a standard that they would never apply to the rest of the world. After the gains of the civil rights movement they try to say middle eastern culture is the same. Well guess what there are no civil rights in the Middle East or Africa.