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To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (2973)	2/20/2002 2:25:05 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 5185

" so many D-words...debt, depression, deficit, default, derivatives..." --BALDUR I admit the economic situation doesn't look good. Plus, we have a President who likes to start wars because they make him feel good. Have you kept up with what he is doing in the Philippines. Fortunately, many people in Asia booed him and many European leaders think he's crazy. I'm not kidding. I read an Op-Ed article by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times recently. Europeans think that Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice and perhaps others in the Bush Administration ARE THE AXIS OF EVIL. Mephisto Here's an excerpt from Friedman's article: Crazier Than Thou The New York Times February 13, 2002 By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN LONDON "Reading Europe's press, it is really reassuring to see how warmly Europeans have embraced President Bush's formulation that an "axis of evil" threatens world peace. There's only one small problem. President Bush thinks the axis of evil is Iran, Iraq and North Korea, and the Europeans think it's Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Condi Rice. I'm not kidding. Chris Patten, the European Union's foreign policy czar, told The Guardian that the Bush axis- of-evil idea was dangerously "absolutist and simplistic," not "thought through" and "unhelpful," and that the Europeans needed to stop Washington before it went into "unilateralist overdrive." nytimes.com