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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673832)	3/2/2005 1:46:55 PM
From: Gary H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"I BELIEVE that God wants me to be president." George W. Bush = "I would like to thank Providence and the Almighty for choosing me of all people to be allowed to wage this battle for Germany," Hitler - Berlin March, 1936 = God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.: George W. Bush = If we pursue this way, if we are decent, industrious, and honest, if we so loyally and truly fulfill our duty, then it is my conviction that in the future as in the past the Lord God will always help us: Adolf Hitler, at the Harvest Thanksgiving Festival on the Buckeburg held on 3 Oct. 1937 = "freedom and fear, justice and cruelty have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them." George W. Bush = "Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!" : Hitler - Nuremberg Sept. 13, 1936. === Read this newsletter online informationclearinghouse.info

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (673832)	3/2/2005 2:13:05 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

NY Times bows to Bush (Joe Scarborough) The war is over. The New York Times lost. But they are not alone. The Democratic Party, the Arab Street, the broadcast networks, National Public Radio, an odd assortment of college professors, and a slew of other pseudo-intellectuals join the motley crew of left wing elites who, by ignoring historical trends, became sad parodies of themselves. This morning, the New York Times editorial page finally sued for peace in their bitter ideological battle with the Bush Administration. This war, like Reagan's against the Soviets, made the great Gray Lady seem increasingly detached and irrelevant. But unlike too many other detractors of all things Bush, the Times editors, like Gladstone, had the courage to change their minds when they discovered that they have been wrong. This morning the winds of change swept through Gail Collins' office. Her editorial page wrote the following: "This has so far been a year of heartening surprises — each one remarkable in itself, and taken together truly astonishing. The Bush administration is entitled to claim a healthy share of the credit for many of these advances. It boldly proclaimed the cause of Middle East democracy at a time when few in the West thought it had any realistic chance. And for all the negative consequences that flowed from the American invasion of Iraq, there could have been no democratic elections there this January if Saddam Hussein had still been in power." The Times pointed to recent developments in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and the coming state of Palestine as evidence that freedom may finally be on the march in the Middle East. I was surprised the Times noted the spread of democracy in Eastern Europe and Central America in the 1980s, considering the newspaper of record had looked upon Ronald Reagan's liberation efforts in those imprisoned regions with the same contempt they foisted on George W. Bush for his Mideast folly. But once again, folly has become fact. And once again, war has brought the promise of freedom. Still, this is no time for gloating. Too many supporters of Operation Iraqi Freedom took a victory lap after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, and we have spent the last two years regretting it. As I have been saying for a year now, too many Americans are dying in Iraq. But we know the experiment with democracy will succeed because, with apologies to Ted Kennedy, only a fool would compare the situation in Iraq to Vietnam. In this war, numbers and history are on our side. As I said in a New York Times Arts & Leisure forum in early January, the fact that 60% of the population is Shiites and 20% are Kurds guaranteed success in the Iraqi elections. The Shia had been told by Grand Ayatollah Sistani that bringing democracy to Iraq was a religious duty. And the Kurds had often fought in front of US soldiers during the early days of the war. Besides numbers, history has also been a remarkable ally. I remember a debate in a political science class I took at the University of Alabama in 1985, as students were arguing over the impact of Reagan deploying cruise missiles to Western Europe. Our insightful professor told us that the Soviets were far more concerned with the proliferation of Xerox machines than American missiles. Professor Barbara Chotiner knew, even in the Age of Aha, that the coming information revolution was the biggest threat to the Soviet Union. Add the fax machine, the Internet, cell phones, text messaging, video phones, satellite dishes, Blackberries, and a slew of other high tech devices, and suddenly you have an army of reporters projecting words and images from behind enemy lines in Iran, North Korea, China, Cuba, and the remaining closed societies still dotting the earth. History is not on their side. Iraq will be free. Iran will be free. Cuba will be free. China will be free. It is inevitable, and thank God the New York Times finally awoke to that reality this morning. As for Democratic leaders and editorial writers that still haven't noticed the hurricane force winds knocking down their ideological house of cards, I simply suggest they cast their eyes to Lebanon or Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or Gaza to see that the world they once knew has already been blown away. That doesn't mean more American won't die at home and abroad. And that surely doesn't mean the terrorists in Iraq and across the world won't continue trying to kill all those who dare to exercise their political rights. But it does mean that we have entered a new era in the Middle East and there is no going back. msnbc.msn.com