- The neoconservatives around George Bush are crazy. They
actually believe the United States can run about the world, overthrowing
governments by force and establishing democracies in their place.
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- This group of maniacs not only wants war with Iraq, but
after that, war with Syria, Iran and North Korea. Any government that doesn't
meet their standards of a modern, Western-style democracy is a target for
America's military might in their warped minds.
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- This is a prescription for the decline and fall of the
American Empire. Overextension " urged on by a bunch of rabid intellectuals
who wouldn't know one end of a gun from another " has doomed many
an empire. Just let the United States try to occupy the Middle East, which
will be the practical result of a war against Iraq, and Americans will
be bled dry by the costs both in blood and treasure.
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- This crowd has the gall to sneer at people trying to
keep the United States out of war as being "appeasers," if not
traitors. They act as if it were brave for a fat, pale-skinned journalist
or commentator to advocate war that will be fought by other people's sons
and daughters. It is the worst kind of moral cowardice to be for war if
you yourself are not going to participate in the fighting.
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- There is one, and only one, justification for war, and
that is self-defense when the country is actually attacked. For some two-bit
politician with a third-rate mind to tell the American people that a Third
World country is an imminent threat to the survival of the United States
is ludicrous. The only threat to the United States that I can see on the
present horizon is the folly of the Bush administration.
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- I was really wrong about that guy. I thought he was smart.
He's not. Look at how he latches onto the bromides provided by his speechwriters
and then repeats them over and over. Look at how totally unaware he is
of the reality of the rest of the world, including the United States.
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- It's hard to see how the "world's worst leaders"
can actually blackmail the United States with the "world's worst weapons,"
since the United States itself has more of these world's worst weapons
than any country on the face of the earth except Russia. As a matter of
fact, we might even have one of the world's worst leaders, at least as
measured by competence.
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- As president, Bush ought to be paying close attention
to countries that have the capability of destroying the United States,
and at the moment, China and Russia are those countries. A lot is going
on in Russia that does not bode well for the democratic people in that
country. And maybe in the long run it does not bode well for us. If Saddam
Hussein could get an atomic bomb, it would be in a crate in a warehouse.
Every month, the Russians roll off the production line more of their mobile
ICBMs. Not only can these missiles strike the United States, we can't even
target them because we don't know where they are. Mr. Bush is like a hunter
looking at an ant and not seeing the lion.
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- Bush showed us what a naive, out-of-touch-with-reality
guy he is when, after meeting the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, he
pronounced him a trustworthy friend "because I have looked into his
eyes and seen his soul." I think you could look at a career KGB officer's
eyes for a long time and not see anything he didn't want you to see. Bush
even proposed a nuclear disarmament treaty based on a handshake, with not
a word in writing. Fortunately, better heads led him away from that foolish
idea.
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- It's unfortunate that he has surrounded himself with
neoconservatives full of hubris. At their urging, he's acting like a little
boy who suddenly fancies himself a soldier and emperor of the world.
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