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To: paul_philp who wrote (59041)	11/27/2002 12:24:43 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Oh, please... Maybe an expert on alien abduction will speak up and delineate all of Bush's supposed character traits that indicate he was once an abductee. And no doubt there are psychic channelers in contact with highly advanced civilizations from the Pleiedes who can tell us for a fact that Bush stole the election and he's a viscious, bad, bad man. Sorry, paul, I enjoy most of your posts, but this article is self-serving crap, over easy and runny.

To: paul_philp who wrote (59041)	11/27/2002 1:23:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Katherine van Wormer is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa You read this piece by a "Soft Science" Professor, and Friedmans piece on the fact that we may be entering into "War Of Civilizations" and it opens up some different lines of thought. I watched a piece on PBS News last night on the "Anti-War" protesters and they made it obvious that the core of the movement was on Campus. It's ideological leaders are the Liberal Arts and Soft Science Professors who are Pacifists by nature and really dislike our present Admin no matter what they do. People like Wormer who wrote this nonsense for Counter Punch. Then you have the thinking left, like Friedman, who realize just how big the problem is, and are coming around to the view that we can't set back and pacify these Islamists. They have to be broken. We are seeing more and more with this viewpoint. When you look at the number of Muslims in the World, and see the unrest everywhere, it is easy to take Carls viewpoint (which is Buchanans) and say, "We can't stop them, too many of them, the best thing is to retreat to our Borders and appease them." But fortunately we don't have to take them all on, just chop the head off the "snake" of Wahhabism. We have to make the Saudis stop funding the Terrorists, confine or kill every Terrorist we can identify, and keep an unremitting pressure on them.

To: paul_philp who wrote (59041)	11/27/2002 7:50:43 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 281500

Interesting. the extreme language that colored President Bush's speeches - "crusade" and "infinite justice", "evil doers," and "axis of evil," These are truly strange expressions for a head of state, perhaps more understandable coming from Iran but certainly not America. My theory was that it was propaganda in its simplest, lowest common denominator form, albeit childish and superficial. The article points to other possibilities. I wonder why nobody in his administration advises Bush on his style. It would certainly make his communication with Europeans much easier - his use of such terms is a major reason for which they see him as a superficial idiot.