Bush Drive on Iraq Has Personal Overtones

AP ^ | March 8, 2003 | TOM RAUM

[Mark17]

Has the world gone mad?

Yes.

[over3Owithabrain]

"The U.N. is a very noble institution. It's been here over 50 years. And it will continue to serve a purpose in the future," said Secretary of State Colin Powell.
And once again Colin Powell undercuts his country and his President with fawning praise for the UN. Still trying to dig his way out of the cesspool he led us into with his horrendous advice that Bush foolishly heeded over that of wiser men.

[jellybean]

Even so, Bush has gone to great lengths to personalize and demonize his enemies, especially alleged terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Saddam.

So, these guys aren't really evil...we just think they are because President Bush has waged a campaign to make them appear so.

These nice old gentlemen were sitting around minding their own business when bad old George Bush decided he wanted to start a war and started demonizing these sweet old men. What a big meanie!!

My gag reflex is getting such a workout these days.

[NautiNurse]

My sentiment exactly. This drivel is not news at all. It is merely an editorial opinion.

[Hila]

To the lake of fire with the devil, who is working through the media. Let's wait for soon there is got to be a 180, the media has got to recover their sanity. In the meantime, it is only truth that prevails, so their lies are already defeated. This internal war in the U.S.A. is about who stands with right/light and who will choose wrong/darkness. America will be saved, sanity and right thinking always have won.

[baseballmom]

I would feel the same (as much as I dislike them) if any of the Clintons or Carter were targeted. This is a matter of national

I agree, as much as I think Carter and Clinton have damaged this country, they were our presidents, and there should be hell to pay if anyone tried to harm them. I believe I heard this week that Clinton was a target of assasination. Did anyone else hear this? I think it was al Qaeda who tried.

[jellybean]

" Forcing Security Council members to publicly take sides "puts the other countries in a terrible position," Steinberg said.

Too f'ing bad!!! They had a choice whose side they wanted to be on...they chose the wrong one. They have only themselves to blame.

[Nexus]

alleged terror mastermind Osama bin Laden

WHAT???

[DeSoto]

(beginning of article)
President Bush, who came to power by a slim electoral margin and with little experience in foreign policy...............

This Tom Raum fella displays such skill in unbiased reporting, he subtly manages to slam President Bush twice in the first sentence.

How many times do we have to read - 'President Bush isn't the REAL president and he had no REAL experience in foreign policy' in order to understand that rest of the article's value lies in it's fertilizer potential.

Hey Baum! Gore lost! Get over it!

Second point, Texas is a very large state with a long common international border and has extensive foreign ties through its oil industry. In fact, President Bush has had extensive international ties through the oil industry. You want to add in the extensive exposure to foreign topics growing up the grandson of a senator, son of a congressman, CIA director, Vicepresident, and President?

Wanna bet that this Baum character never complained about Clintoon's foreign experience?

As for the rest of the article, I didn't bother. I have enough fertilizer, I don't need to wallow in more.

[Right to be Wrong]

Non sense, Mr. G.W. Bush proved to be 1000% more efficient in foreign affairs than Clinton ever was, regardless of his so called "LACK OF EXPERIENCE". You don't need experience, when you are a born leader. Actually, Bush has been so far, the best America has given in a long period of time. My prayers are with you Mr. Bush, with your family, and most of all with your country.

[RoseofTexas]

Ooops...by=but, I think I need a cola! :)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Geez, that guy writes tripe.

[virgil]

I like Pres Bush and I am glad he is president and not Al Gore. I agree that diplomacy will not make Saddam disarm, only force or the threat of it will make him do it. But a different approach of diplomacy should have been used with garnering support for the war. I think going to the UN for most of the diplomatic effort was a big mistake and Bush is wasting our time and money right now. He should have worked behind the scenes with heads of state in Europe to get support. Some of them, like Germany, may still have not gone along anyway, but Germany doesn't have a vote on the security council. It was a mistake to work through the UN, there are too many bad guys in the UN. It has only given a forum for anti-American voices of people like Joscka Fischer and SH.

[Howlin]

I can understand what you mean. I don't know WHY he/they did this; looking back, it wasn't such a hot plan.

Perhaps he didn't realize France wanted to be King of the Mountain.

[Travis McGee]

I just went into WordPad and made great home made bumper stickers. I set it to "landscape" (sideways), at 72 point type, bolded, with .2" margins. I get two bumper stickers out of each sheet of regular paper that say

Only UNamerican / put the U.N. / before America!

It's all centered up, on three lines of big wide type. It goes all the way across the 11" sheet of paper. Two per page (six lines of type total), and I made extras to give to people. A few little tabs of 3M brand Magic Tape will attach it to the inside bottom of my back window, even after months in the sun 3M Magic Tape peels off cleanly with zero glue residue. They are exactly the size of a normal bumper sticker, but in black and white on regular paper to go inside a window.

[Jim Noble]

I don't think he imagined for a second that France and Germany would do what they have done.

Few Americans understand the mortal threat that the EU poses, even fewer sons of transnationalist Presidents who have been to Yale understand it.

I love GWB, but God isn't finished with him yet.

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[Howie]

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