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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (228963)	2/20/2002 1:12:06 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

Hopefully ... "we still are the good guys..." I'm cautious about proclaiming greatness when we have shipped 9 different bio-terrorist substances to Iraq, trained terrorists for a couple decades, and insist on overseas adventures, unvoted by the American people, conducted by self-interested groups within government. I'm not one who believes we don't have influence on the growth of terrorism. We need to protect ourselves but protecting the rest of the planet gets the radical military groups into creating the problem we claim to avoid. Greatness would be, Thomas Jefferson's well-known quote- "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations- entangling alliances with none" -encapsulates perfectly their view of the wisest foreign policy for America. A famous portrait of George Washington depicts him holding a sheaf of paper emblazoned with the admonition: "Beware foreign influence." Yet our modern lawmakers reject the non-interventionist principles of our founders, choosing instead to involve America in conflicts around the globe" as Pres Washington and other said, avoiding foreign entanglements and permanent alliances. azimuth.harcourtcollege.com Unfortunately, we have a system that requires secrecy, deception, and war. And we'll war it as long as we have the first two.