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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (342817)	1/14/2003 12:10:23 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

the terror and fear they feel is manufactured by the Bushies Re:violence and leadership -- Alexander Haig was asked a couple years ago about the Reagan assassination attempt, and what happens in violent crises. He said, "people instantly look for someone to follow". He talked about how Bush Sr. had just set up the Crisis Center in the WH a few days earlier to handle the details of just that kind of situation. One thing people in power understand is violence. That's the game plan, and those involved have that down to a science. If that ever stops working they'll go into a panic. the astonishing popularity of a known criminal like Bush In "Understanding Power" Chomsky says it's to be expected, which may be, but I have yet to read a real study of how these polls are conducted. The more serious threat to democracy is the billions in covert funding of "The Mighty Wurlitzer" media, which sanitizes and subverts 99% of the real criticism... Fortunately, the other 1% still gets thru