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To: Road Walker who wrote (321561)	1/18/2007 1:12:56 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586212

I don't know. 4 years was enough for me to see the problem, but I'll tell you, the rest of my family voted for Bush. Old habits of voting Republican are hard to break, especially if you don't read voraciously to keep yourself informed. And that is the problem in a nutshell. Many things I tell my family come as a surprise to them and my family is pretty well educated. So I'm thinking that the average American family must be very uninformed as to realities. Instead, they are relying on slogans, smoke and mirrors, instead of Republican actions to inform their election decisions. But that's not entirely true. The Congressional elections tell us that the average American is pretty sick of this Republican administration. So I think everyone is coming around. There will always be the minority, though, and they are well represented on this thread.

To: Road Walker who wrote (321561)	1/19/2007 1:45:49 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586212

re: One of the then Secretary of State Colin Powell's top aides told the BBC the state department was keen on the plan - but was over-ruled. "We thought it was a very propitious moment to do that," Lawrence Wilkerson told Newsnight. "But as soon as it got to the White House, and as soon as it got to the Vice-President's office, the old mantra of 'We don't talk to evil'... reasserted itself." Evil? Which side is the evil side? Cheney doesn't believe in talking to evil but he didn't mind selling them parts for their oil industry when he was CEO of HAL.