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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (251974)	4/30/2002 11:25:45 AM
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CNN News - December 23, 1944: Secretary of State Colin Powell today urged President Roosevelt to withdraw American troops from Belgium and France in order to "halt the violence in Western Europe" and "allow peace negotiations to begin with the government of The Third Reich". He stated that efforts to bring Adolf Hitler to the negotiating table have been hampered by the swift Allied offensive that swept across France and Belgium in August and September, denying the Germans large areas of land that they consider part of their "homeland" ('Lebensraum'). On FOX News, geopolitical expert Bill O'Reilly accused the Roosevelt administration and Chief of Staff Chairman George Marshall of pursuing a needless extension of the continuing violence in Belgium in a futile attempt to occupy all of the German's homeland, and deny the German people their right to self-determination. The recent German counter-offensive in eastern Belgium, launched 8 days ago, "proves there can be no military victory in this war that has lasted for 5 long years.", according to O'Reilly. There was no comment on Powell's statement from the Stalin government in Moscow. The Red Army is continuing to consolidate its recent occupation of Poland, and is believed to be preparing for its own offensive into Germany. Last month, Powell, during a mission to Moscow, suggested that the violence that has plagued Eastern Europe, driving an estimated 10 million German, Polish and Hungarian civilians from their settlements, could be brought to an end through negotiation if the American forces were to withdraw back over the English Channel. Should the negotiations be unsuccessful, whether through Hitler's or Stalin's intransigence, said Powell, "We would still have substantial forces in England, and could invade again." JCS Chairman Marshall and British Prime Minister Churchill, often at loggerheads on strategic issues, were both said, by spokesmen, to be 'flabbergasted', and thus unavailable for comment. A spokesman for the Roosevelt administration said the President was, "very interested in considering all sides of this sensitive issue.". Meanwhile, on the Belgian front, George Patton's Third Army continued its winter drive to relieve the 101st Airborn Division, trapped in Bastogne by German Panzers since December 16. Asked to comment on Powell's statement, General Patton mumbled a few words under his breath that reporters either could not hear, or were unable to quote...