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To: Wowzer who wrote (36806)	2/3/2004 9:56:09 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 89467

Budget experts pointed to a few items in the Bush proposal that they considered unrealistic at best and, at worst, deceptive. The Bush league are all devotes of neo-fascist philosopher Robert Strauss. One of his main thesis was that the elite had to lie constantly to the common folk because they weren't smart enough to make decisions. alternet.org <font color=navy>Strauss' philosophy is hardly incidental to the strategy and mindset adopted by these men – as is obvious in Shulsky's 1999 essay titled "Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)" (in Greek philosophy the term nous denotes the highest form of rationality). As Hersh notes in his article, Shulsky and his co-author Schmitt "criticize America's intelligence community for its failure to appreciate the duplicitous nature of the regimes it deals with, its susceptibility to social-science notions of proof, and its inability to cope with deliberate concealment." They argued that Strauss's idea of hidden meaning, "alerts one to the possibility that political life may be closely linked to deception. Indeed, it suggests that deception is the norm in political life, and the hope, to say nothing of the expectation, of establishing a politics that can dispense with it is the exception." </font> TP

To: Wowzer who wrote (36806)	2/3/2004 11:15:23 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Iraq not budgeted? WTF???? Economically Iraq is a "basket case". The overwhelming bulk of the population has no money and no job. The American taxpayer is paying to "rebuild" (in many cases, make that build) Iraqi infrastructure. Included in that infrastructure are hospitals. Now when a penniless Iraqi walks (or is carried) into a hospital, and receives medical attention, who pays for it? Hmmm... So it's the Bush policy that the American taxpayer pays for universal Iraqi health care coverage, but Americans are left with ... well, you know. JMO lurqer