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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (447595)	8/25/2003 4:13:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush - The great deceiver. Machiavelli would be proud. "The entire Bush administration was wallowing without a breeze in its sails until September 11 came along and gave its head man an excuse for “greatness.” Now the vacuous George W. Bush has been elevated to the status of a virtual Winston Churchill shouting across the English Channel “bring ’em on,” and nonentities such as Tom Ridge have become household words. Campaign genius Karl Rove is banking on the president’s martial leadership to bring home the electoral bacon for Republicans in 2004. For all those associated with the Bushies and their cronies in the military-industrial complex and other pet industries and professions, these are happy days indeed. To cover their tracks, the leaders of the War Party are relying on Machiavelli’s wisdom, which tells them: “It is necessary . . . to be a great pretender and dissembler; and men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.” Pretending to cut taxes, wildly increasing federal spending for nearly every species of boondoggle (thus buying off potential Democratic opponents in Congress), hiking the deficit and shoving the burden of servicing the resultant public debt onto future generations of taxpayers, they understand well the classic expression of political irresponsibility, “apres nous le deluge.” Those high waters will be somebody else’s problem then, and, if the future repeats the past, few of the unfortunate souls who find themselves immersed will look back and blame the true culprits." independent.org