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This post was brought to you by the letter S, which stands for both seretogis and strawman.
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So don't challenge the president's foreign policy, you just don't understand it! But I understood Clinton's policies, and they were moronic!
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I didn't suggest that you shouldn't challenge the President's foreign policy, or that you can't understand it. I merely stated that the seven second sound-bytes popular on network television news are not an objective representation of the truth.
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So our choices here are agree with Bush or agree with Al Jazeera? What happened to the grey?
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By the "grey", do you mean waiting another 12 years while more innocent people die at Hussein's hands? Perhaps we should wait until Iraqi tanks are rolling through Kuwait again.
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Yeah, I can see the parallels between nepotism in a (likely small) business and, oh, say, world affairs. I think you've got a good handle on things from Bush's perspective based on your life experience. In fact, you're just like him, a maverick hero who won't let politics get in the way of what's right! I think you need to get a bid for office going.
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Actually, I worked for a multinational Fortune 500 marketing agency, but I appreciate the condescending comments nonetheless. I also find it mildly amusing that you ignored the rest of that paragraph in order to take a personal shot at me.
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But we WILL back down to special interest groups, right? It's all about the dollars. If the "French terrorists" (seriously, I can't tell how much you believe and how much is diversionary nonsense) dropped a hundred million into Bush's re-election fund, I doubt we'd catch them. And, uh, what are we doing about the NKs? Is Kim Jong Il still oppressing his people, building nuclear weapons, generally being a terrible despotic lunatic? We're sure in....Liberia...right now, aren't we?
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First off, I meant delusional, not disillusioned. However, disillusioned is what I am becoming after replying to the same regurgitated discussions on this board, so perhaps it was a Freudian slip.
Zacarias Moussaoui is a 33 year old Frenchman, who was a self-proclaimed member of al Qaeda, and the first person indicted in relation to the 9/11 attacks. He (and pals, I'm sure) was who I was referring to, but his name isn't the easiest to remember how to spell.
As for special interest groups, I'm really not sure how that is related to this thread, but thanks anyways. We should be focused more on working with China/Japan/South Korea to deal with NK than starting a new campaign in Liberia, but you can thank the media for that.
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The major U.S. media have not paid much attention to Liberia over the years but it has now become a major issue, getting mentioned in 72 stories in the New York Times over the last 30 days alone. It is ironic that while the media keep harping on whether President Bush misstated the case for war in Iraq, they have led him to push for regime change in Liberia on far more spurious grounds.
During the year 2002, a review of the New York Times web site shows that the paper ran only 40 articles mentioning Liberia. The increasing attention over the last few months parallels the campaign by the African-born United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, who wants President Bush to endorse his plan to deploy a U.S.-led peacekeeping force to Liberia.
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