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To: i-node who wrote (187437)	4/30/2004 2:57:29 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1583975

Yes, the former Soviet Union was an example of a dictatorship, not communism. This, from the four-point boy! Where'd you say you got that 4.0? UCLA? Berkely? I had four points off and on through college and graduate school. Where I went (Arkansas and Louisiana), those idiots thought USSR was communist. What idiots. They ARE idiots.......they think people from NYC are communists. In fact, any one who disagrees with a Southerner is a communist. Its why Northerners think all Southerners are rednecks! East Germany was called the German Democratic Republic. Did they teach you that East Germany was a democracy? The only reason people get more conservative is because they have more to lose as they accumulate wealth so they give up their idealism in exchange for possessions. Can you PROVE that? Why bother......you prove it every day. BTW hows XMSR doing? Still counting all your sheckels?

To: i-node who wrote (187437)	4/30/2004 3:42:21 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583975

Oops......who knew Bush was weak on terrorism......apparently, a lot of us including Paul Bremer! ******************************************************* April 30, 2004 THE NATION Bremer Warned Bush Was Lax on Terrorism From Associated Press WASHINGTON — L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. "What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this,' " Bremer said at a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism Feb. 26, 2001. Bremer spoke at the conference shortly after he served as chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism, a bipartisan body formed by the Clinton administration to examine U.S. counterterrorism policies. The remarks drew attention on the same day President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney appeared before the Sept. 11 commission to explain the precautions they took to prevent a terrorist attack after taking office in January 2001. White House spokesman Scott McClellan did not comment on the Bremer remarks directly. "The actions we took prior to Sept. 11 demonstrate that we took the terrorist threat seriously," he said. "The first major foreign policy directive was a comprehensive, aggressive strategy to eliminate Al Qaeda." The foundation is a charitable organization founded by Robert McCormick, former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The Times is a Tribune Co. newspaper. At the speech, delivered in Wheaton, Ill., Bremer, whose diplomatic jobs included a stint as ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism, said a war against terrorism would be unending. "If you call it a war, you suggest there's a victory," he said. "I would argue there is no final victory in the war against terrorism any more than there is in the so-called war against crime." latimes.com