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

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (444279)	8/17/2003 9:15:21 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: In a world where America disarms and just hopes that everyone behaves, no one is safe. How about if everyone disarms? :) This has been pretty much what has happened in Europe since 1945, and the continent seems to be mired in far fewer petty and grand wars than in the past few centuries since the end of WW II. Disarming the continent, for the most part, has resulted in a unified currency, rights to travel, increased trade and general prosperity. All in all, a better result for almost everyone since the Europeans gave up on war as a means of competition. The U.S. is uniquely the 800 pound gorilla in the realm of war sickness. We easily outspend the next 15 countries combined on instruments of death. The more we spend on this pathology, the more we are led by false leaders attempting to spread fear among the populace. Today, I view out culture as toxic. We'll never be able to spend our way via DoD budgets to peace and prosperity. We'll only create more terrorism and more fear with the plan that Bush has created to reward his cronies in the war contracting and international energy industries. Bush is bankrupting this country for the sake of some very shady characters who do not mean well for anyone except themselves. Their so-called "patriotism" is actually a curse for the nation.