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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (228664)	2/20/2002 12:26:28 AM
From: Selectric II	Respond to of 769670

Not at all. In a world full of places where "might makes right," we're one of the few that has a peaceful change of elected government officials on a predictable schedule and have liberated and defended others' ability to do so -- sometimes at the point of a gun. If our aims were truly imperialist, those 2,000 foreign military outposts (if true) and that 50% of the world's budget on military hardware (if true) could have taken over just about any place we wanted to. <edit> If we base our actions on your unproven assertion "...that perhaps a majority of the planet's population consider us to be the "Evil Empire," we'll be in big trouble. Less than 25% of all U.S. citizens even know who their Congressional representative is. What's that say about what you contend to be the "informed" opinion on international politics and economics of the masses around the world? Such an intellectually dishonest joker you are.