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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (552975)	3/17/2004 3:17:26 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Terrorist attacks in London are "inevitable," say the English papers. London's mayor said it would be "miraculous" if the capital avoided a Madrid-style attack. "Have the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq really made the world safer?" Europeans are asking themselves. "The whole thing seems mad," said an English journalist at dinner last night. "We suffered IRA bombings in London for many years, decades in fact. We knew they operated out of Ireland... but we didn't declare war on the Irish. Osama bin Laden might have been captured and brought to justice by now if we hadn't gone off on this grandiose 'War on Terror' thing. I mean, nation building... clashing civilizations... what nonsense. There are always dreadful people doing dreadful things. You need to track them down and bring them to justice... not stir up every crackpot and malcontent against you. "Someone asked Margaret Thatcher what she would have done. Would she have taken the British to war in Iraq? No, she said... it was 'too uncertain.' Smart woman. But she's a real conservative. These neo-conservatives who seem to be in charge of American foreign policy are really something else altogether. "I knew Richard Perle [a top neo-conservative idea monger] when I was a correspondent in Washington. Delightful, charming man. But completely mad." [Ed note: In a related vein, Doug Casey passes on some rather startling observations from a correspondent "in country" in Iraq... in an article on the Daily Reckoning website. You don't want to miss it: On The Ground In Iraq dailyreckoning.com