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

To: Neocon who wrote (494373)	11/17/2003 4:59:56 PM
From: Howard C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I actually saw the excerpt on TV a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, don't have the proof in front of me.

To: Neocon who wrote (494373)	11/17/2003 5:56:41 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Towards the end of his speech to the Forty-second Session on September 21, 1987, the President said that, "in our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond." "I occasionally think," continued Reagan, "how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask" -- here comes the clincher -- "is not an alien force ALREADY among us?" The President now tries to retreat from the last bold statement by posing a second question: "What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?" Unlike the off-the-cuff remarks to the Fallston High School, we must assume that the President's speech to the General Assembly was written very carefully and likewise, it merits close examination. The comments are extraneous and NOT mine. Quoted remarks seem to be consistent with a theme he liked to project.