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To: Suma who wrote (8800)	3/22/2005 11:40:36 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

So where's the outrage? You were so upset over the alleged "fake news" from the Bush Admin, yet you have not shown the slightest bit of concern over a coordinated effort to create massive amounts of "fake news" that resulted in terrible legislation. This incident also provided you with ample proof that the liberal MSM really is biased & helped perpetrate this fraud, yet you have not said one word about this either. And your liberal peers are equally silent on all of this, including your favorite politicians & the liberal MSM. Things that make you say Hmmmmm.........

To: Suma who wrote (8800)	3/22/2005 8:55:27 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

"I think Rice is in over her head." Message 21155532 I don't........ Well Spoken washingtonpost.com EDITORIAL Tuesday, March 22, 2005; Page A16 IT'S NOT CLEAR how much Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice achieved on the six-nation tour of Asia she wrapped up yesterday. On issues such as North Korea and economic relations with Iran, her talks with government leaders yielded no substantial public results. But Ms. Rice did strengthen what has been a welcome development during her first months at the State Department: the emergence of the secretary of state as a forceful advocate of democratization and human rights. Wherever she went on her tour, Ms. Rice made the case for greater political and religious freedom -- to presidents and foreign ministers, journalists and students, in public as well as in private. Though she is only beginning, Ms. Rice has taken a step toward connecting President Bush's Wilsonian vision with the administration's day-to-day practice of diplomacy. As the new secretary demonstrated, a heightened concern for democratization can coexist with traditional U.S. interests and pragmatic alliances. In Pakistan last week, Ms. Rice handled the military president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, with care and refused to respond in public to questions about his recent abrogation of a commitment to step down as military commander in chief. She did, however, talk publicly about "the need for a democratic path ahead for Pakistan" -- a priority that senior State Department officials minimized during Mr. Bush's first term. "We look forward to the evolution of a democratic path toward elections in 2007 for Pakistan," she said. In China, Ms. Rice lauded the state of U.S.-Chinese relations and focused her discussions on the North Korea problem. But she also attended a Palm Sunday church service and spoke repeatedly about the need for China to move toward democracy. "It's perfectly plausible to be . . . principled with the Chinese about human rights and to carry on a constructive dialogue about other issues," she told reporters. In South Korea, she spent most of an hour with Internet journalists preaching the merits of democracy, in Asia and elsewhere. When a skeptical questioner asked about her description of North Korea as an "outpost of tyranny," she briskly replied that Americans "are going to speak up for people who live without freedom. It is who we are." Ms. Rice has demonstrated an early willingness to back up her rhetoric with action. After her public support for the imprisoned Egyptian democracy advocate Ayman Nour failed to obtain his release, she canceled a visit to Cairo. Mr. Nour is now free on bail. An aggressive reaction to the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri may succeed in forcing Syrian troops to withdraw from the country. At a minimum, a series of uncompromising statements by Ms. Rice, some of them delivered in interviews with Arab media, have closely identified the United States with that popular cause. More diplomatic muscle will be needed, in Lebanon, Egypt and elsewhere; rhetoric alone won't advance the administration's democratization agenda very far. Pakistan's civilian political parties will be watching closely to see whether Ms. Rice makes a free election in 2007 a priority alongside security cooperation with Gen. Musharraf. But rhetoric is at least a start -- especially when delivered in public by a secretary of state known to be one of the president's closest collaborators. Ms. Rice is a powerful speaker -- and so far, she is choosing her words well.

To: Suma who wrote (8800)	3/22/2005 10:17:45 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Tisk, tisk, tisk. Thou Dost Protest Too Much Beltway Buzz An administration source has a funny story for Beltway Buzz readers. While the president was traveling through the Southwest a few weeks ago promoting Social Security reform, the White House team encountered a group of about a dozen protestors outside an event in Albuquerque. “There were twelve to fifteen of them outside. They were holding signs and heckling us as we went into the event. I didn’t think much of it, because you see this sort of thing happens almost anytime you are traveling for town hall type events.” But what happened next is what caught our source’s attention: “I was walking through the Dallas airport with some colleagues and one of them recognized two of the same protestors we had seen outside the event in Albuquerque. We had some extra time, so we decided to talk to them. They were very polite and explained to us they had just come from protesting an event nearby. One of them very quickly identified themselves as professional protestors.” “Not that they just liked to protest, but that they actually got paid by liberal interest groups to travel the country protesting. Here they were, sitting in the airport TGI Friday’s having a burger and getting ready to travel to New Orleans for another protest. They were good kids and wanted to talk. We tried discussing some of the benefits of Social Security reform. They listened, but weren’t too interested. Not because they had opposing views, they just said they weren’t too educated on the details. They even admitted they didn’t know who it was they were going to protest in New Orleans.”