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

To: calgal who wrote (423172)	7/5/2003 12:27:13 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Cal Thomas Useful idiots in the Middle East newsandopinion.com \| Communism had its "useful idiots." These were people who believed whatever Communists said and were helpful in advancing their cause. In the Middle East, the enemies of Israel, the United States and all things Jewish, Christian and Western have far more useful idiots than Communists ever counted on. These are the people who refuse to believe what they are repeatedly told and see in bloody streets, in mosques, in political literature and in schools where children are taught to hate and to be "martyrs" before they are potty-trained. In the matter of the "road map" to "peace" between Israel and her mortal enemies, we are seeing the usual razzle-dazzle. Elected Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon stands by appointed Palestinian "Prime Minister" Mahmoud Abbas, who mimics Sharon in his Western-style suit. Both men make pronouncements required of them by their American puppeteer. The useful idiots think Abbas and his band of bloody brothers will play the lion lying down with the Israeli lamb. In the midst of all of the photo-ops and feel-good diplomacy comes a sober and welcome word from someone the useful idiots no doubt will regard as a skunk at their party. Israel's Minister of Internal Security Uzi Landau told Israeli Radio that Israel should set a timetable with dates for clearly defined and measurable Palestinian actions regarding security. These would include, he said, collecting weapons, outlawing terror organizations, unifying Palestinian Authority security groups in one group and ending incitement against Israel, which requires, among other things, the removal of regional maps that do not show Israel on them and elimination of anti-Israel textbooks from Palestinian schools. URL:http://www.siliconinvestor.com/msg_reply.gsp?msgid=19084845

To: calgal who wrote (423172)	7/5/2003 1:33:22 AM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush Celebrates With Troops for July Fourth Friday, July 04, 2003 DAYTON, Ohio — President Bush (search) delivered an impassioned Fourth of July defense of war in Iraq, declaring that the United States is "on the offensive against terrorists and all who support them." Celebrating Independence Day at this midwestern military base along with thousands of Air Force (search) families and other spectators, the president said Friday that the nation had learned plenty from the pain of the deadly Sept. 11 terror attacks. "Since that September day," he said, "we made our own intentions clear to them: The United States will not stand by and wait for another attack or trust in the restraint and good intentions of evil men." Bush has cited a general threat of continuing terrorism against the United States and a specific threat from Saddam Hussein (search) as justification for the U.S.-led war against Iraq. "We will not permit any terrorist group or outlaw regime to threaten us with weapons of mass murder," he told a cheering crowd of mostly military servicemen and women and their families. "We will act whenever necessary to protect the lives and liberty of the American people." For this, the president said, the nation must rely heavily on the men and women of its armed forces. They are "carrying out their missions with all the skill and honor that we expect of them," Bush said. "This nation is grateful to the men and women who wear our nations' uniform." Bush appeared at a star-spangled celebration of the centennial of flight in the hometown of airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright (search). The site for his speech was just outside the United States Air Force Museum here. The president's visit to Dayton was his 10th trip this year to a key battleground state that will be crucial in the 2004 elections. The president then returned to Washington for festivities honoring the nation's founding 227 years ago — and to attend his own "surprise" birthday party. First lady Laura Bush summoned a few friends for fireworks-watching from the White House balcony Friday night, in honor of Bush's 57th birthday on Sunday. Though intended as a surprise, Mrs. Bush spilled the beans about her plans during an online chat earlier in the week. The president's patriotic Independence Day speech came at a time when his administration has been getting increasing questions about the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the continuing casualties of troops serving in that country. More than two-dozen U.S. troops have died in hostile action in Iraq since May 1 when Bush declared major combat in Iraq was over and more than 60 have died overall. The government on Thursday stepped up efforts to quell growing unrest in Iraq by putting a $25 million bounty on deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and $15 million on his sons. The Arab television station Al-Jazeera aired an audiotape Friday with a voice purported to be that of Saddam. In the tape, the speaker said he was directing resistance to American forces and called on all Iraqis to support the attacks. Earlier in the week, Bush had challenged those tempted to attack U.S. forces by saying "Bring 'em on," a comment quickly criticized by Democratic presidential candidates. The Bush visit is part of a 17-day commemoration of the centennial of flight that started Thursday in the hometown of the Wright brothers. They made their first powered flight near Kitty Hawk, N.C., in 1903. URL:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,91106,00.html