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

To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (481965)	10/27/2003 12:25:52 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Rick, Re: Your latest link was simply a regurgitation of all of the US's military actions since WWII taken completely out of context and listed in a manner that tries to imply endless unprovoked aggression in the most inflammatory language. Inflammatory? Hardly. Endless unprovoked agression? That is unquestionably the pattern of U.S. interventions since World War II. William Blum's views aren't out of the ordinary among people who actually pay attention to the facts. Another couple of recent books that make the role of the U.S. military pretty clear, and clearly show the malevolent side of the military are Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" nationbooks.org and Howard Zinn's "Terrorism and War". amazon.com The U.S. elite have consistently acted as an anti-democratic force for a very long time. From the Mossadeq interference in Iran in 1953, to CIA assistance in the Pinochet coup in Chile in 1973 to the CIA's anti-democratic efforts to perpetrate a coup d'etat in Venezuela today, espanol.news.yahoo.com the U.S. government has consistently been on the side of unaccountable capitalists and corporations and opposed to popularly elected, democratically elected leaders on several continents.