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To: Skywatcher who wrote (6319)	3/9/2003 12:52:05 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15516

"At his press conference, Bush failed yet again to make his case for war. Here's why Jonathan Alter, Newsweek " Bush said: "That happens to be my last choice-the use of force." Sounds good, but it simply wasn't believable. Everyone knows that war has been the president's first choice-not his last-since at least the summer of 2002. " >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The second big problem with the Bush sales job is one of simple logic. Bush was lucky that no reporter asked him about his administration's most recent budget request for rebuilding Afghanistan-a big fat zero. (Congress added a couple of hundred million). He seems to think we can play 52-card pickup and then simply leave the room." >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chris, George W. Bush always makes big promises but he delivers the goods only to his big campaign contributors and to the rich I'm sure you've noticed that journalist aren't afraid to call George W. Bush a liar. I wonder how many hours it took Karl Rove to teach W how to pout for the big press conference.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (6319)	3/9/2003 7:50:45 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

More George W. Bushisms Simon Hoggart: I feel it is vital that we have an insight into the mind of the man who is leading us into war, and on cue comes More George W Bushisms Saturday March 8, 2003 The Guardian · I feel it is vital that we have an insight into the mind of the man who is leading us into war, and on cue comes More George W Bushisms, edited by Jacob Weisberg and published by Pocket books at £5.99. Here [Bush] is on the Middle East: "I understand that unrest in the Middle East creates unrest throughout the region." That was in March last year. At least it was an improvement on his pessimistic view the previous August, when he said: "My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." He does have his priorities. In March 2002, he returned to the subject: "There's nothing more deep than recognising Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right." I'd love to be a fly on the wall at some of his meetings with world leaders. For example, he had a session with Vladimir Putin in July 2001: "You saw the president yesterday. I thought he was very forward-leaning, as they say in diplomatic nuanced circles." And, "I also made it clear to [Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe." He's always been refreshingly honest. As he said in January 2001, "I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists." This is perhaps not invariably deliberate. "There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead." guardian.co.uk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chris, the press thinks Bush's ignorance is funny. I don't. When you read what Bush actually says, then you know someone tutored W for his news conference. And everyone should read excerpts from George W. Bush in: -The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder by Mark Crispin Miller ( paperback edition) Copyright: 2002, 2001 by Mark Crispin Miller, Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company