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To: marcos who wrote (668)	9/22/2002 9:02:32 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

marcos, Thanks for the Wayne Morse link. He's an American hero, as far as I'm concerned. When he was finally defeated by Bob Packwood, it was over the fact that Morse hadn't been cutting enough backroom deals to bring home the bacon to Oregon. America lost a conscience and a voice for reason when Oregonians small-mindedly voted on dim-bulb understandings of economics. Ending the Viet Nam fiasco immediately would have saved them more than they ever gained by electing Packwood. *************************** Somehow my words from last February are still ringing true. We have a cabal of paranoid megalomaniacs running the foreign policy of the U.S. I'm surprised you are so ambivalent about the cynical Bush plot to use Saddam Hussein as a punching bag for domestic political advantage. Maybe I've simply got a code of morality and ethics that is too noble for the ignoble world of the Shrub. As far as I can tell, if Iraq's neighbors don't feel threatened, then for the propagandists and fear-mongers in the U.S. to claim he's a threat to us is a preposterous and risible concept. The cynical rapidity with which the White House rejected Iraq's "unfettered inspection" letter simply shows me how cynical and bullying the American leadership has become. I am grateful to Senator Robert Byrd who is beginning to assert the necessary role of checks and balances on the mis-applied power of the Executive Branch. And I'm grateful to Republican Senators Hatch and Shelby for criticizing the mal-Administration for their intransigence on providing information regarding what Bush did and didn't know in the run-up to the September 11 attacks. I've watched the video of Bush sitting in an student chair at Sarasota's Booker Elementary School. He looked more like a man who was playing according to the script, rather than someone who was a shocked as the rest of the world about the WTC attack. He got some explaining to do. -R.