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To: Kip518 who wrote (13973)3/5/2003 4:09:12 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
Kip518: Here is a nice summary of the frustrations many of us are experiencing...

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<<...I think that is what it boils down to. The Bush administration has been far from forthcoming about its true motives. In the process Dubya is pissing away the economy, the goodwill of our allies, and increasing the discontent of our terrorist enemies.

Every morning when I wake up I feel less secure. Less secure about my job and less secure about my daily life. Meanwhile all that this Dubya dude in the White house thinks about is getting rid of this two-bit Iraqi dictator who stopped being a threat 10 years ago, when we bombed the hell out of them...>>



To: Kip518 who wrote (13973)3/7/2003 6:17:20 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
Washington Post Warriors

by William Greider*
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The Nation
Posted March 6, 2003

thenation.com

<<...Reporters and editors can still ask the hard questions and need not pretend to be shocked if the US colonial governor decides to stall on the promise of Iraqi democracy. Americans at large, I fear, are about to lose their sense of injured innocence. Maybe the news media can lose some of their "patriotic" deference to the warriors in charge...>>

*National affairs correspondent William Greider has been a political journalist for more than thirty-five years. A former Rolling Stone and Washington Post editor, he is the author of the national bestsellers One World, Ready or Not, Secrets of the Temple and Who Will Tell The People.