Barkley wrote:
>... nobody should be under any illusions whatsoever. The Bush
>administration is turning out to be far far worse than anybody forecast
>and certainly far worse than a Gore administration would have been. And it
>will negatively impact many people in the rest
>of the world, I am afraid. Bush and his cronies have made it clear that
>their attitudes are about the same as Jesse Helms's. They could not give
>a rat's ass about the rest of the world which can just go to hell.
now this is an administration that ran a conservative stealth campaign and
won a conservative-steal election. They've got an electoral machine (of a
different sort than that of the late Mayor Daley of Chicago, but quite
organized) that is trying to shove through a hard-right program post-haste.
But it smacks of _hubris_. Pride goeth before the fall.
in a separate missive, he writes:
>... Korea is another matter. They may not have reported it in Canada, and
>most Americans are blissfully unaware of it, I am afraid, but Bush has
>just blown off peace negotiations in the most heavily armed location on
>the face of the earth, the Korean peninsula.
> Frankly, the spectacle of Bush sneering at Kim Dae Jung, who spent
> many years in prison for his advocay of democratization and human rights,
> who walks with a major limp because of all the torture he has undergone,
> is truly nauseating. For all his faults, Gore would not have done that.
> This is pure warmongering and money to the military-industrial complex,
> big time.
Agreed. The reason for this is that the Bushwackers think they can get away
with it. How can N. Korea retaliate?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
