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

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (481890)	10/26/2003 9:24:23 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The strategy is kill those carrying RPGs, bombs and AK-47s just like the police and ATF would do to people doing the same thing in this country.

To: Rick McDougall who wrote (481890)	10/26/2003 9:51:02 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

On January 7, 1946, the famous novelist and writer John Dos Passos of Life Magazine penned a piece entitled "Americans Are Losing the Victory in Europe". The article quotes US GIs to highlight low morale among the troops. "The troops returning home are worried. 'We've lost the peace,' men tell you. 'We can't make it stick.' The French press is skeptical about US governing and rebuilding of Germany. "You try to explain to these Europeans that they expected too much...They don't blame us for the fading of that hope. But they blame us now...We have swept away Hitlerism, but a great many Europeans feel that the cure has been worse than the disease." "Never has American prestige been lower in Europe. People never tire of telling you of the ignorance and rowdy-ism of American troops, of our misunderstanding of European conditions. They say that the theft and sale of Army supplies by our troops is the basis of their black market. They blame us for the corruption and disorganization of UNRRA. They blame us for the fumbling timidity of our negotiations with the Soviet Union. They tell us that our mechanical de-nazification policy in Germany is producing results opposite to those we planned. 'Have you no statesmen in America?' they ask." You can read the entire (and yet all too brief) article at (http://www.kultursmog.com/Life-Page01.htm). Then think Iraq. I would especially encourage my international readers, and those in the US skeptical of Bush Administration efforts in Iraq, to take a few minutes to read this. kultursmog.com