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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5634)	3/14/2004 4:50:12 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. There's no doubt that Kerry will serve the power elite in this country nearly as well as Bush (two sides of the same coin). But, at least under Kerry we might have some more sunshine in our government and learn a thing or two about what transpired under George W. I think Kerry will be a refreshing change from the Bush years. I mean, things can't get much worse than under Bush. This country is heading in the wrong direction.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5634)	3/14/2004 5:52:14 PM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Ray, One thing I noticed right off the bat in the Pilger article is his failure to mention that Kucinich not only voted against the invasion of Iraq, but was also running on a platform of pulling out of Iraq ASAP. While I fully agree with the premise that Democrats and Republicans are just different heads of the same monster, I would have to consider the author's view to be fatally flawed by such an obvious piece of disinformation. The only real hope for a second Bush term is for Nader to skim off enough votes to make Bush competitive against Kerry, which by the way appears to be the purpose of the Pilger piece. In a more spectacular manner, Dean accomplished the same thing against Kucinich. Dean burned through the available funding and support by the anti war crowd, to the turn of 40 million dollars, in a matter of a few months, then dropped them on their asses. In the absence of the flanking move by Dean, Kucinich would have been the obvious choice in that arena. He would have had a ton of momentum from jump street. Kucinich's track record, policies, goals, and voting history was virtually bullet proof against the sort of attacks that have weakened every other candidate. It's fairly obvious that failing a second term for Bush, the goal is to put another Clinton in office, and his name is Kerry. I know you liked Dean, so forgive me for not candy coating my view that he is a weasel. Since neither of us are likely to ever find out what kind of President he or Kucinich might have made, and even less likely to see a side by side comparison, it's all blue sky speculation anyhow. In any case, I think it's a sad state of affairs that when it comes time to vote, half the people in the country can't stand either candidate, and the number of people who really like either candidate will barely fill a reception hall in any given demographic region. In a sick sort of way I can almost appreciate why these folks never represent our interests considering how universally they are disliked by hundreds of millions of people. We should probably stick to the main topic. At least that way I may appear humorless on one subject at a time.