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

To: sea_urchin who wrote (7411)	7/18/2004 12:03:59 PM
From: twmoore	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20039

You guys give Bush to much credit as far as intelligence goes.Bush is an empty shirt with an IQ of his own body temperature or less. He is the Charlie McCarthy and Wolfowitz,Perle,Feith,etc,are Edgar Bergen. The religious stuff that he espouses is all for political gain.

To: sea_urchin who wrote (7411)	7/19/2004 3:38:57 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 20039

Re: In the end, the pope did convince the leaders of Mexico, Chile, Cameroon and Guinea to oppose the U.S. resolution... ...and failed to win over his native Poland... how ironic, eh? As the French proverb goes, Nul n'est prophète en son pays. APRIL 18, 2003 Polish Chief Is Iraq War's Surprise Winner By MAURIZIO MOLINARI The second Gulf war is not yet finished, but the Polish president, Alexander Kwasniewski, is already one of its winners. He has emerged alongside British Prime Minister Tony Blair as the European leader most visible in the military campaign. Poland's place on the battlefield gave it new stature as a staunch ally of the United States in the war on terror. While the United Kingdom was able to share coalition leadership with the United States and Australia put its so-called Desert Phantoms on the ground in Western Iraq to search possible Scud sites, continental Europe was represented on the front lines by the special anti-chemical warfare units dispatched by nations of the former Eastern Bloc, including the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. Of these, it was Poland that played the leading role. Indeed, when President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, lists these former communist countries that assisted in the war effort, she makes it a practice consistently to put Poland at the end. Her purpose is to emphasize that Kwasniewski went an extra mile: Where the others sent support units, his troops fought. He sent 200 of his elite GROM commandos to fight in the port city of Umm Qasr, shoulder to shoulder with Her Majesty's Desert Rats, in a partnership that reminded many British vets of the Italian campaign in 1943. The United States and the United Kingdom gave formal recognition to Poland's role at the end of the Belfast summit when, in the text of their final statement, they listed it with Australia as the only nations that openly sent ground troops into Iraq. The role played by the GROM commandos against Saddam Hussein's fedayeen and the elite troops of the Republican Guard will serve Kwasniewski well in the future. It is part of an ambitious strategy by the Polish leader to change his nation's image and status on the world stage. He is aiming high: He wants to reach for the most important seat in the Atlantic alliance at the end of the year, when George Robertson leaves his post of secretary-general of NATO. The GROM commandos have given him an important boost. Kwasniewski went out on a limb with his war stance, putting himself and his Catholic nation directly at odds with the Vatican's condemnation of the war, as voiced on several occasions by the Polish cleric Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II. Facing the choice between gambling politically on George W. Bush or following the moral leadership of the pope, Kwasniewski chose realpolitik. His long-range goal is not merely personal: He wants to raise Poland's profile role in transatlantic relations in advance of 2004, when the European Union is to be enlarged to embrace the former communist countries. [...] forward.com