Well, Cheney can also be seen to have regained access to a position where he can
exact revenge rooted in his position in Daddy B's administration. And then
there's Powell... Maybe Dubba-you can appt Schwartz-cop Ambassador to Iraq...
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Devine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:8252] Re: RE: Re: Bush war
I can't read their minds. But the continuity of the Bush-Clinton-Bush
policies toward Iraq is pretty clear, while Clinton's policy of killing a
bunch of Iraqi children, though much less dramatic than Bushie's recent
attack, is pretty bloodthirsty. Besides, I bet it was Cheney who really
made the executive decision. The government seems to fulfill the wet dream
of some political scientists, separating the roles of "head of state" and
"head of government," with Bushbaby as the largely-ceremonial President
(the former) and Cheney as the hands-on Prime Minister (the latter). (A
standard polisci critique of US government is that the two roles are merged
in the Presidency.)
Mat wrote:
>while it is true that bombing continued under clinton, the reports from the
>pentagon made it clear that this was on a scale that had not been
>undertaken for
>some time, and the feeling i got was that other "routine" bombings were not
>being directed by the prez, whereas Dubba-u did have a say in this. i could
>imagine that the pentagon routinely has several proposals of differing degrees
>of harshness, and that Dubba-u is barely able to hold himself back. it
>would be
>naive i think to dismiss any possibility that the bad blood between daddy bush
>and saddam hasn't been transfered to Duba-u. i can just imagine Daddy B.
>at the
>first news getting himself into a frenzy and rushing into tell Barb "the
>Bush's
>are back in town, yippee!" He was not happy that 'desert storm' failed to
>remove
>Saddam. I think people like that must view themselves historically and
>symbolically, they certainly saw a lot of symbolism in Dubba-u beating the
>VP of
>the man who beat Daddy. Does anyone know the specifics on exactly what the
>Bush's direct material interest is in Iraq with respect to the oil industry?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
