Personally I'm half expecting another situation like what happened in
Florida in 2000, either real or manufactured. Or even more convenient to
Shrub, a major terrorist attack somewhere in the US in the days before the
election. Remember the people who are running the Bush re-election campaign
are those who engineered the October Surprise or Iran-Contra, or their
students.

larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:25 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: A clear and present danger to the world...?
>
>
> I'm voting against Bush this November. If he gets reelected
> is am SO looking forward to another four years of people
> posting about how he sucks. Gel is gonna have to reinforce
> his soap box, and maybe install a loudspeaker to be heard
> above the din.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:16 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: A clear and present danger to the world...?
>
>
> This isn't really new material, just regurgitated and re-presented.
>
> Even the best material gets tired after a while.
>
> - Calvin
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Angel Stewart
>   To: CF-Community
>   Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:00 AM
>   Subject: A clear and present danger to the world...?
>
>   http://tinyurl.com/24bqe
>
>   A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE WORLD
>   Apr 16 2004
>   Kevin Toolis
>
>   HE is the most dangerous man in the world.
>   A warmonger. A crackpot fundamentalist. A fanatic and a fool who has
>   only the barest grasp of the killing power of the forces under his
>   command.
>   His name is George W Bush and his main battle plan is to
> set the world
>   on fire.
>   September 11 was a crime against humanity but from
> Afghanistan to Iraq,
>   and now in Israel, Bush has blazed a purposeless trail of
> destruction
>   and multiplied the dangers of terrorism a thousand-fold.
>   The War Against Terror has turned into a war of terror in Iraq as
>   American troops butcher their way through the civilian population in
>   pursuit of an enemy that grows stronger daily with each dead Iraqi
>   civilian.
>   And in Israel Bush has overnight primed the entire region for a new
>   cycle of slaughter by backing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
>   illegal land-grab of Palestinian territory and offering the Arabs
>   nothing in return only despair.
>   Bush seems determined to unite the entire Arab world
> against the West.
>   Already the mass murderer Osama bin Laden has gleefully
> vowed to avenge
>   the Israeli assassination of Palestinian Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin.
>   After September 11 Bush promised to fight terror. But the
> only promise
>   Bush has kept is the promise of more terror, more terrorist
> atrocities,
>   like the Madrid bombings, to come.
>   As the American President Bush is supposed to protect
> democracy and make
>   the world a safer place.
>   Bush is supposed to be the leader of the free world, a man
> who directly
>   follows in the footsteps of such great statesmen as John F
> Kennedy, who
>   saved the world from nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban missile
>   crisis.
>   But airhead Bush is no Kennedy.
>   WATCHING Bush stumble through a live press conference, even when he
>   knows the questions, is like watching a stranded goldfish
> gasping for
>   air.
>   Bush is not just out of his depth, he is out of his element.
>   If it was not so truly frightening you could almost feel
> sorry for him.
>   If I was an American I would be ashamed. Ashamed that the greatest
>   nation on earth is so badly led. Ashamed that their
> commander-in-chief
>   is without purpose squandering the lives of his men, and Iraqi
>   civilians.
>   And ashamed too of a President who sends men to their death
> but does not
>   have the courage to attend one single funeral of the 700 US soldiers
>   killed in Iraq.
>   Iraq and Israel might seem far away but every time you fill
> up your car
>   you are taking part in the politics of the Middle East. The world
>   economy still runs on petrol and that oil still largely
> comes from the
>   Arab world.
>   If anything should ever happen to that flow of oil - civil
> war in Saudi
>   Arabia or meltdown in Iraq - we would all know about it
> very quickly by
>   the US$100 a barrel price tag and the three-hour queue down at your
>   local petrol station.
>   The war against Islamic fundamentalism, the hunt for Osama
> bin Laden, is
>   a battle for the future of the world. It is a war the West
> cannot afford
>   to lose. And it is a war in which the clueless Bush is
> blindly leading
>   us all towards disaster.
>   As if the quagmire in Iraq was not bad enough, Bush has turned his
>   destructive attention to the other regional hot-spot, Israel.
>   At the White House Bush summarily dismissed 50 years of Palestinian
>   claims for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied
> territories. Israeli
>   settlements in the West Bank, all illegal under
> international law, were
>   the "new realities" that the Palestinians would just have
> to accept, he
>   said.
>   A couple of months ago I was standing next to one of those
> realities, an
>   eight-foot high concrete wall, on the outskirts of Jerusalem in the
>   small Arab village of Abu Dis.
>   Abu Dis is seven miles from the centre of Jerusalem and
> straddles the
>   3000-year-old pilgrim road to Jericho. Jesus Christ himself probably
>   walked along the same road on his way into Jerusalem.
>   But last summer Ariel Sharon decided Abu Dis was no longer
> part of East
>   Jerusalem and erected an eight-foot high concrete barrier across the
>   middle of the road, cutting the residents off from their
> homes, their
>   jobs, and their city.
>   ON the roof of a local garage the Israeli army erected an
> observation
>   post and threatened to shoot anyone who climbed the wall.
>   The Palestinians ignored the soldiers and round the corner
> climbed the
>   wall anyway.
>   I was standing on the "Arab" side of the wall chatting to
> Ahmed Bahar, a
>   street falafel seller, when without warning an Israeli
> soldier lobbied a
>   tear-gas grenade.
>   There was no shouting. No mob screaming threats. Ahmed saw
> the hissing
>   gas canister, which landed about 10 feet away, and took off in the
>   opposite direction. I ran after him but not before getting a choking
>   whiff of the stinging gas in my eyes and lungs.
>   After 10 minutes the wind blew the gas away and Ahmed went
> back to his
>   falafel stall. The other Palestinians quietly got back in
> line to queue
>   for a taxi. And life started up again.
>   Ahmed said he had been gassed hundreds of times. He was
> past being angry
>   about it. The real thing that bothered him was the disruption to his
>   trade. He wasn't making enough money to support his family.
>   Getting tear gassed in Abu Dis for no reason is just one of the new
>   realities that George W Bush wants the Palestinians to live
> with, along
>   with hundreds of other daily humiliations of Israeli
> occupation. But is
>   not a sustainable reality. Sooner or later some Palestinian
> will angrily
>   strike back. There will be more suicide bombings, more
> killings, more
>   despair.
>   To save the world from terror you have to have vision,
> intelligence and
>   the ability to unlock the complex political problems.
>   But the only ability George Bush has is an unerring
> capacity to make a
>   grim situation worse.
>   George W Bush is a clear and present danger to the world.
>   And we are all under threat until this bumbling oaf is removed from
>   office and confined to a remote Texas cow ranch where he
> truly belongs.
>   -KEVIN Toolis is an expert on terrorism
>
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