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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (444681)	8/18/2003 2:53:43 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

No, Ken, he was accused by the fringe Right of the time of being a Soviet sympathizer. He was "notorious" only the sort of people who ended up accusing Eisenhower of being a comsymp. You are substituting the potted history of political cultists for scholarship. No one who was not a Communist argued that Stalin was the author of anybody's freedom. Unless by "domestic enemy" you mean the less than 100,000 members of the CPUSA and assorted radical splinter groups, everyone knew well enough that the Warsaw Pact nations were not free, and it was driven home by the invasion of Czechoslovakia to shut down the Dubcek regime. Gerald Ford merely made a gaffe, intending to express the idea that the real Poland was overwhelming Catholic, not Communist, which Solidarity later helped to demonstrate.........