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

To: TideGlider who wrote (513744)	12/20/2003 11:29:16 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yes, and where Dwight would be on today's GOPwinger team is, at best, a backbencher. Actually, under these conditions, he'd probably be a Democrat. Remember, Dwight was a Republican back in the days when the Republican Party had a Ripon Society. Indeed, the very nature of the Republican Party has changed from what it was when Dwight was at the helm. Moreover, have you ever heard any contemporary Republican quote Dwight? I haven't. There's a reason. Dwight was a different kind of Republican than the ones we have today.

To: TideGlider who wrote (513744)	12/21/2003 3:30:04 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

Here's a friendly suggestion. It might help to read before flying off the handle. PT referred to the military industrial media* complex*, not the originally worded phrase from Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Speech. The nuance is important, because today the media is a huge part of the psyops/disinformation campaign that the Department of Death is running against the U.S. citizenry. This is actually quite a dreadful change from what we were faced with in 1961. Back then, the military didn't see the need to wage psychological warfare against the very taxpayers who have been enchained as tax slaves to the increasing military madness.

To: TideGlider who wrote (513744)	12/21/2003 3:36:28 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

Dwight Eisenhower was an ethical and honest man. Two qualities that George Bush is certainly lacking in. Here's a couple of Ike's most famous quotes: M-I Complex: "In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Speech, January, 1961 Guns or Butter: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." --President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speech in 1953 ****** Could Ike Eisenhower, with this sort of an attitude, be a member of today's Republican Rape-The-Planet Party? It is impossible to imagine a man of his decency and integrity having anything to do with today's corrupt and senseless Republican Party.