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

To: ManyMoose who wrote (262222)	6/8/2002 11:55:09 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I have worked with a number of people from the Middle East. I think I mentioned this on this thread a while back. I shared an office for six months or so with a man from Syria. Very interesting experience. He was a reasonable fellow, but viewed the US in a very different way. We tend to think of ourselves as benevolent rich uncles who go around the world helping those in need while providing democracy and global stabilization. The rest of the world, according to this fellow and others I've talked with, tends to see us as the ugly American; loud, arrogant, and interested only in protecting our perch.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (262222)	6/9/2002 2:22:59 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"Just what knee jerk garbage do you think will push us into totalitarianism" Just for fun, a scenario brought up on this thread by Ray previously - a dirty bomb in DC, immediate switchover to the underground administration already in operation, no congressional meetings for a while, and voila ! Kneejerk totalitarianism. Won't last, of course. Unless there's more explosions, anthrax, smallpox, etc. Ever see the move "Brazil"? These rabid exercises in paranoia serve to estimate some small portion of what the military and executive branch already have war-gamed to the nth-degree. Kind of fun, in a twisted way. Unless, of course something unexpected actually happens, like WTC, only larger, as we are being warned about.