Swede
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Thu Dec-11-03 12:56 PM
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Why does Bush go "Let's irritate our allies" all the time? |
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No contracts to Russia,Germany blah blah blah. Twenty billion dollars is small potatoes to the huge economies of these countries. But it does piss them off at a time when Bush wants there help at the same time.
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DinahMoeHum
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:14 PM
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1. Methinks we can take a tip from Molly Ivins here. . . |
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"It's not that he's mean. It's just that when it comes to seeing how his policies affect people, George W. Bush doesn't have a clue. " Link: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_559_01.html:evilfrown:
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PSU84
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:15 PM
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2. Because he is profoundly ignorant. |
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And he's proud of his ignorance.
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library_max
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:19 PM
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5. Alas, there's a lot of that going around. |
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It's one of the main factors that's been changing American politics in the last few decades.
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RPG-7
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:17 PM
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3. It plays well with his nasty little thug fans |
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In case you haven't figured this out if he can get a bump and a few high-fives from Limbaugh over thumbing his nose at all those cheese-eaters in the other hemisphere he could care completely less what impact it has on this country or anyone else. It's all about him.
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NewGuy
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:18 PM
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4. I think it is both intentional and shrewd |
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Bush knows this will piss of the French and the Germans. However, at the same time it kind of amuses the rest of the EU and Bush's supporters. Also, if he had allowed them to bid and perhaps have been the succesful bidder on large projects, he would have been beat up by both left and right. This way he gets beat only by the left, who are so busy beating him for everything he can shrug it off as more partisan ill will.
Also, this will make the Germans and the French consider their future actions.
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:20 PM
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6. You mean, like applying for statehood? |
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This is Bush being a bully on our behalf, that's all.
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library_max
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:21 PM
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7. "Consider their future actions"? |
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You mean make them toe the U.S. line or else? Doesn't it matter that they were right and we were wrong?
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RPG-7
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:24 PM
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9. I can think of a few actions they may reconsider.. |
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Like making a truce with Islamic factions in their countries and looking the other way instead of spending their own resources investigating terrorists for our benefit.
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:23 PM
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8. Because Emperors and other unelected tyrants don;t have to worry |
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about ANYTHING. Not what other nations think of them, not what their Subjects think of them...
The Busheviks are behaving as if the 2004 "election" is as rigged as a Saddam Hussein "election" and with a foregone outcome.
I'm not so sure I don;t believe them.
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PSU84
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:25 PM
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Edited on Thu Dec-11-03 01:27 PM by PSU84
Is anyone else bothered that Dr. Strangelove - sorry, I mean Donald Rumsfeld - and that vile little pig wolfowitz are deciding who will rebuild Iraq? I mean, I know this is a crazy idea, but shouldn't IRAQIS decide that? WTF?
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:29 PM
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11. Read the PNAC agenda for answers. |
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Not allowing any international agency to rise to the prominence of the PNAC fascist state (formerly USA) was a major goal. Shrub is just following the script.
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Thu Dec-11-03 01:29 PM
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12. Consistent with the global neofascist/corporatist agenda. |
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It's crony corporatism on a glabal scale, imho ... leveraging the economic clout of those global corporatists to coerce other nations. It's as reprehensible as the old-time massing of troops on their borders, imho. (It's the ol' "might makes right" corruption that pervades the PNAC attitude.)
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