"Mait001" wrote in message
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I don't believe Bush is evil. I do believe he's potentially a bigger
threat
to world security. After all, we already _know_ he has access to Weapons
of
Mass Destruction.

And you have evidence that he has used them against anyone or has
threatened to
do so? (Apart from against evil dictators and world terrorists, that is).

No, but his father did, in Gulf War I - depleted Uranium. Hussein fired
first, yes, but that doesn't alter the fact that the US is the only coutnry
in the world to have used nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. That's a
damn sight more evidence than Hans Blix ever claimed to have found in Iraq.


Those so quick to condemn Bush (and with him everything that America
stands
for)

Thank you for that typical conservative kneejerk reaction. Condemning the
man is condemning neither the office nor the state - you're a lawyer, you're
intelligent, so why do you insist on misunderstanding that? The
circumstances under which George Bush won the 2000 election are at best
dubious, and I find both his domestic policy (tax cuts for the rich, while
millions go without health insurance) and his foreign policy (refusing to
sign the Kyoto treaty, and flouting the UN and other international bodies)
despicable. He scares me more than Saddam ever did, because - while I would
never accuse Bush of being anywhere near as evil as Hussein - he is a hell
of a lot more powerful.

should recall, especially during Remembrancetide, that it is highly
unlikely that we would be living in anything like the relative peace and
security we now have, following the Allies' victory in World War Two,
without
the Americans' support in Europe and the Far East.

I agree, and am grateful. I don't see what that's got to do with the current
situation though. If someone saved me from being mugged, grateful as I'd be,
I would still be pretty irritated if they dragged me into a brawl ten minute
s later.

Defend George Bush, by all means, but please don't be so condescending to
those of us who can't stand the man.

Jonn