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To: RMF who wrote (8193)	9/3/2007 5:38:03 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25737

It never fails to amaze my how many uninformed people there are. No wonder we elect such stupid Politicians like Reid and Pelosi. Apparently you are UNAWARE that ISLAMIC FANATICS have declared war on America for DECADES. Bush is the first President to ANSWER THE CALL. jdn

To: RMF who wrote (8193)	9/3/2007 6:52:36 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 25737

Would you prefer that we ignore the jihadist threat and numerous attacks on us as clinton did so they could continue to build their arsenal aimed at destroying the West? How much longer do you prefer to remain asleep while the jihadists gather steam and build their storm around you? Wake up... Bush was the first President to recognize the threat and do something about it, he's the messenger, not the cause... but now, you blame the messenger? TIA GZ

To: RMF who wrote (8193)	9/3/2007 8:08:53 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

yes,

To: RMF who wrote (8193)	9/3/2007 9:15:44 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 25737

Anti Americanism in Europe is Over Bridging the Gap After a stormy break with the U.S., European leaders are forging a new Atlantic alliance. By Stryker McGuire Newsweek International Sept. 10, 2007 issue - Forty-four years ago, a few months before his assassination, John F. Kennedy traveled to then divided Berlin and gave a round of historic speeches. "Ich bin ein Berliner" is the line everyone remembers, the crowd's roar soaring in approval of the young president whose country would one day liberate the people on the other side of the wall. But there was another line, his last public utterance in Berlin. It came during a speech at Congress Hall, a gift from America to the people of Berlin. "Americans may be far away," he said, "but ... this is where we want to be today. When I leave tonight, I leave—and the United States stays." It didn't turn out that way. Over the decades, America floated in and out of Europe's graces. Probably Washington's darkest hour in Europe since Vietnam was the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its grim aftermath. Iraq split the continent in two—into "old" and "new" Europe, in former U.S. Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's memorable formulation. Millions of protesters filled Europe's boulevards. In Britain, Spain, Italy and elsewhere, governments fell or were wounded by their association with George W. Bush. At Congress Hall in Berlin, on the eve of "shock and awe" over Baghdad, Middle Eastern artists mounted an antiwar exhibit dubbed "DisORIENTation." Now the tables have turned again. From Iberia to the Russian border, European governments are rebuilding transatlantic bridges. Remarkably, the continent's political elites are embracing pro-Americanism at a time when people on the street are as anti-American as they've been since Coalition forces rolled across Iraq. By going against the public grain at obvious political risk, Europe's leaders are demonstrating just how determined they are to bury anti-Americanism. Thus an iconic moment last week: ensconced in the onetime capital of un-America, speaking in effect for a new generation of European leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a meeting of his ambassadors in Paris, "I am among those who believe that the friendship between the United States and France is as important today as it has been over the course of the past two centuries." Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are on the leading edge of the New Atlanticism. The two of them behave as if Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and President Jacques Chirac belonged to another era, with Sarkozy attempting to revive an alliance that dates back to the American War of Independence and Merkel, as the leader of the world's largest exporter, championing what her officials call "a larger common market" with the United States. msnbc.msn.com GZ