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2003-05-04 Home Front

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Posted by someone 2003-05-04 06:34 pm|| || Front Page|| [13 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sorry, probably should have chopped more. Couldn't find a preview button though!

Posted by someone 2003-05-04 18:51:34|| 2003-05-04 18:51:34|| Front Page Top

#2 When President George W. Bush called for "new and different leadership" for the Palestinian Authority, the Pentagon took this as a cue to cultivate leaders with no connections at all to Yasser Arafat.

The State Department, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to recruit Arafat's deputy in the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Abu Mazen.

I think I've finally figured it out: The Defense department has no qualms in believing that the President is Commander in Chief, but the State Department thinks it knows better than the President. Time to crack the whip and put a few extra crevices into some Foggy Bottoms...

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-04 19:06:10|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-04 19:06:10|| Front Page Top

#3 "Senior hawks .... would contend America is at war with all states that sponsor terrorist organizations and pursue weapons of mass destruction"

"Powell ..... believe such states can be coopted to do America's dirty work against an enemy that is distinct from states"

I'd have to go with the Hawks here. If we are to learn a lesson from history we need to remember that Saddam, Osama, Pakland ISI were all at one point doing the US's / CIA's dirty work and were great friends. In the short term it always looks like a great idea but in the long term they always come back to kick you in the nuts, It's just Karma.
You can't go around the world preaching the virtues of freedom and democracy whilst at the same time you're in bed with states that deny that same freedom and democracy.

Posted by rg117 2003-05-04 19:21:14|| 2003-05-04 19:21:14|| Front Page Top

#4 All of which is part of a larger picture of incoherence in the Bush administration's Middle East policy.
Typical UPI blather. QUESTION: How do the available facts surrounding this sentence lead one to the conclusion that this sentence is a true statement
ANSWER: They don't.

Sometimes I wonder if their isn't a person at the news Agencies whose job it is to go around inserting statements just like this one, after the piece is complete. Just sticks 'em in anywhere he can.

Some guy with a whip who walks around with a little can full of sentences that all authors are obligated to insert somewhere into their stories before they are allowed out on the wire, like: "Bush is stupid and has big ears", "quagmire", "America's incompetent cowboy attitude", "European smart and cultured attitudes", Americans ineptitude and bumbling", "Republican's and Bush are pooh-pooh faces, Democrat's and Clinton are rocking cool".

This piece is a perfect example of an over-zealous sentence-adder who really didn't bother to really finess in his anti-Bush statement.

Posted by Becky 2003-05-04 20:41:26|| 2003-05-04 20:41:26|| Front Page Top

#5 RG117 is right

we can no longer overlook the 'unintended consequences' of supporting states that rule in an evil manner.

ANyway, as seen in Iraq, you can both smash the evil states and the evil NGO terrorist Islamofascist groups at the SAME TIME creating a better world all round and the new free states will help in keeping it that way.

Posted by Anon1 2003-05-04 20:53:22|| 2003-05-04 20:53:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Absolultlly agree if a State harbors,protects,suports terrorist then it is a terrorist state,is our enemy and should be treated accordingly.

Velvet glove-iron fist

Posted by raptor 2003-05-05 05:46:25|| 2003-05-05 05:46:25|| Front Page Top

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