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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (315)	1/21/2005 3:57:52 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

What a silly (and dishonest) post.....it is OBVIOUS to all but an idiot that the 9/11 experience greatly changed Mr. Bush.... JLA

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (315)	1/22/2005 6:36:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

My aunt lived in Washington the last third of her life. She said many time that the closer to the capital one lived, the less on trusted government. At the time she used to refer to inside and outside of the beltway. Those outside didn’t distrust Washington as much as those inside. Look at the state department under Colin Powell. I thought he was a strong leader. Soon after his arrival the state department seamed to have emasculated him. He never really seemed to be able to control it though. Maybe Condi can come closer to taming the department. Washington bureaucracy has a direction and mind of it own. It certainly is more likely to change directions as a result of leadership than direction gotten from daily polls. All that having been said. I suspect that President Bush has a very different view of foreign policy than he did four and a half years ago. I see clearly that this man who is accused of being pig headed, has developed and changed his opinions on how the countries in this world interact. He appears to agree with me that political freedom is most often preceded by economic freedom.