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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (366903)	3/6/2003 12:26:45 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Indeed, I'm happier with American politics than I have been for a long time. * * *

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (366903)	3/6/2003 4:39:44 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: Yep. The Krauts and the Ruskies will have egg on their faces too. They who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.... Bush risks a Mideast inferno Bouthaina Shaaban IHT Thursday, March 6, 2003 iht.com Excerpt: People in the Arab world see the discrepancy in the U.S. attitudes to Iraq and to North Korea as yet more proof that the Bush administration is moved by religious hatred toward Arabs. It is also strongly believed here that Israel is the driving force behind the unjustified plan to attack Iraq, especially as the lack of respect that Israel has always shown to the role of the United Nations is slowly but steadily leaking into statements by senior American officials. No one here believes that the Bush administration is coming to modernize or democratize or bring in better political systems. After all, the policy of successive U.S. administrations played a vital role in supporting the same regimes that it describes as undemocratic or dictatorial. If the Bush administration wants to be viewed as fair in the region, it should support UN resolutions concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and take a stand against the Israeli occupation and settlements - and Israel's killing of Palestinian women and children, and destruction of houses - rather than give Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a free hand to spill so much Palestinian blood. Sharon's strategy, which has plunged Palestinians and Israelis into a cycle of violence unprecedented in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, has brought nothing but pain to both sides. Now the Bush administration, on the basis of a strategy similar to Sharon's, is on the verge of infecting the entire region with the same kind of violence and counterviolence. If it goes to war, in other words, the United States may inadvertently unleash an Arab-American or even a Muslim-American conflict - with unpredictable and, in all likelihood, uncontainable consequences. The writer, head of the foreign press office at Syria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is author of "Both Right and Left Handed: Arab Women Talk About Their Lives."