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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (228635)	2/19/2002 8:09:48 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Does it happen to cross your mind that perhaps a majority of the planet's population consider us to be the "Evil Empire"? Looked at this logically, in terms of who has 2,000 foreign military outposts, spends 50% of the world's budget on military hardware, has invaded 300% more foreign nations than any other imperial force in the last 15 years and is the possessor of more nuclear weaponry than any other nation, would not a rational and neutral observer be forced to conclusion that we are the biggest thug state in the world? Just wondering, Ray