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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (307848)	10/13/2002 1:32:45 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Good article. But the authors' confusion is due to a simple cause: This is a business deal. That's all. Get the trillion or two in oil, and make other deals along the way, including tightening control over the US and effectively declare martial law. Once that's realized, the rest becomes clear, like the "oh gee, it's too complicated!" antics of Enron were simply to control the market, lie as much as possible, and extort the maximum dollars for as long as possible. The media around the country are happy to publish wistfully intelligent people trying to make sense of the Bush rapaciousness in terms of ethics, human lives, international or domestic law, or such quaint notions as American history. But that's just going to cause circular confusion, like trying to figure out some artfully concealed nobility of an ax-murderer. That "nobility" just ain't there folks, no matter what the ax-murderer says. You're kidding yourselves. What you see is what you got. If you want to understand what the Bushes are doing, think like Junior did when he mocked the condemned woman on death row on public radio, laughing as he said in falsetto voice, "please don't kill me!". Haw haw haw. Think like grandpa Prescott in financing Hitler munitions while Americans were being sent to their deaths from Nazi fire. It's just "bidness". These good ole boys don't care about a few thousand, or millions, of deaths. All part of the game, as far as they're concerned.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (307848)	10/13/2002 1:45:26 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This may be a stupid question, but is war only justified, if you have countries lined up on your side? Are you saying, if other countries begin to line up and support an attack against Iraq, it is right. But, if the United States is going it alone, war against Iraq is wrong? re:"The U.N. weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert conflict." What the hell does that mean? The last I read, Iraq hasn't agreed to even the minimum logistic conditions set for U.N. Inspectors, but insists on further discussions.