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


To: AurumRabosa who wrote (551435)3/13/2004 1:15:45 PM
From: James Calladine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
It could be as simple as that.

But the general pattern is:

-- can we keep this guy under our thumb?

and if the answer is "no" then:

-- we fund an opposition of ANY kind (autocratic strongman preferred) that we can keep under our thumb. Saddam Hussein is a good example, another is Noriega.

Ron, if you are not already there, please visit this thread, which I think you will enjoy:

Subject 54632

Namaste!

Jim