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

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (251565)	4/27/2002 8:37:42 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 769670

Good link. What is most telling is... ...the sound bite W emphasized of the 'importance' of a 'personal relationship' ... LMAO, that's for sure ... via the Carlyle Group. bia

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (251565)	4/27/2002 8:42:34 AM
From: bonnuss_in_austin	Respond to of 769670

<<Bush family friendships endangered>> Snip from below: It's an Angry, Violent, Warmongering World Out There Right Now. You Just Live In It By Mark Morford Friday, April 26, 2002 sfgate.com And all you really have to do is step away for just a short period of time, break away from the daily news grind and the everyday wars and the talking-head alarmism and the commonplace unrests and the wagging fingers of hissing foreign leaders and then come back, and you can see it clearly. It dawns on you rather suddenly, especially if you've just taken a relatively lengthy hiatus/vacation where the pressures of the world all deliciously fell away and then you calmly return and peel your suntan and open the paper and scan the wires like you always have and suddenly it hits you, smacks your anima like a brick: There are no peacemakers in the world right now. Crusty macho hawks run the planet like never before in our generation. Violent money-addled males with far too much power and far too little perspective are in charge of far too many corporations and lobbies and governments. You are appalled. You are saddened. You are blackened at the karmic level. You realize you don't have nearly enough wine or painkillers or warm socks for the imminent nuclear winter. But you are not naive. You are not stupid. You realize this is essentially the same as it ever was. It's a tragic cliche: Wars and violence and hatred and injustice and cruelty and angry old men ordering their tribes to kill each other in the name of oil and money and land and dogma. Film at 11. Yet not all is bleak and bitter and Bush, of course. Plenty of good remains, you tell yourself. It's just your average, bitter, ultraconservative, anti-everything leadership right now and while it certainly feels more sinister and savage than usual that's just the way the cultural pendulum swings, you tell yourself, hopefully, trying to shrug it off. But then again, not. Then again, it all seems much worse than it ever has in your lifetime. You don't want to believe it but you look and look and cringe and wince and it's all renewed nuclear strategy this and bloody Israeli conflict that, heightened tensions with Iraq here and brutal civil war there and far too much hey get your holy hands off me, Father, just about everywhere. You can feel it. We're aching to annihilate Iraq. Craving some nuclear explosions in any of seven newly minted enemies. Actively avoiding the Middle East conflict like the plague, terrified our alliances could be imperiled, our oil interests compromised, Bush family friendships endangered. World War III will not be two egomaniacal superpowers battling for supremacy and bragging rights. It will be scattershot and bewildering, a hundred different battles fought on a hundred different fronts for a thousand ever-shifting reasons, each and every one twisted and distorted by regulation GOP spin doctors who somehow convince the bulk of the populace that it's somehow patriotic to be cavity searched and fingerprinted and beaten with a stick when you buy groceries. We are so close. We are on the verge of something very dangerous and irreversible. You can hear Dick Cheney breathing hard, just aching to press The Button. The human animal is capable of staggering atrocities and deadly choices and the thick-necked frat boys in charge right now are the most darkly capable we've suffered in decades. No one is preaching peace. No one striving for genuine camaraderie or balance or compromise. And too few of us seem willing to believe that 9/11 has mutated into a brutish hollow excuse for the Bush administration to perpetuate a war for oil and to proclaim new enemies and to chip away at the Constitution and your civil liberties in the name of increased federal control and fewer dissenting voices. And you have two choices, given your rather privileged American status allowing such choices at all: You can either quickly close the paper and turn off the TV and thank goddess that the world is variegated and colorful enough that you can live in relative happiness without having your soul pummeled on a daily basis by people who seemingly have zero connection to any sort of healthy spiritual reality or perspective. You can detach. Spin down. Avoid. Or you can carefully dive back in, try to make sense of it all, get informed and slog through the macho muck and try to keep your soul from getting overly tainted, make a valiant attempt to make it though the day without slapping both hands to your head and screaming and jumping in front of a speeding ideology. All the while realizing that if there's one thing the world needs right now, it's positivism and laughter and good sex and connective energy and an enlightened populace to counteract the forces that would drag us down to cesspools of thin-lipped white-knuckle rage. Too simplistic? Too naive? Hardly. Peace is always much braver and more difficult than war. Just try it. bia

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (251565)	4/27/2002 11:27:15 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769670

You print and article from the <b?JEWISH WORLD REVIEW, a rabid racist zionist publication, and you expect objective readers to take you serously? Jewish-American Israel-Firsters are undermining Mr. Bush's foreign policy and America's national security in their effort to exalt Israel's agenda above America. Saudi Arabia and America have had a long and fruitful relationship. The Saud government has always oppose true terrorism and they have demonstrated that opposition by exiling ben Laden long before the world understood his terrorist campaign of hate against Christianity. The Saudis have convicted and executed many Arab-Moslem terrorists for their activities long before he war on terrorism. Saudi Arabia has been a close ally of the US for some 100 years but now Israel and their Jewish-American trojan horse are determined to undermine America's national security by their fanatic determination to create a world war against all Arab nations. Why don't you quote American patriots and Christians rather than hate literature for Zionist Jews?