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I agree with you on every point you make. I've always maintained that just about anyone would have made a better president than Dubya, and there's no doubt that few would have sold out their nation and manipulated fear to the edge that Dubya has brought it to. I was greatly disappointed that Gore did not win the presidency, not just because he was the lesser of two "evils", but because it would have been more beneficial to have Gore's intellect put to work rather than the utter absence of mind that the globe has witnessed with Bush. What was interesting about reading this piece was that the political views and actions taken by Gore are very much carved out of the same inhumane mind set. War games, huge corporate profits before the well-being of the citizen, weakness on countless human rights issues, do-as-I-say, not as I do, and yes, me and my family are above the law. Generally, it's the capitalist mindset of today's successful politician, and I think that that is what has to change if we are to have any leaps forward. Not heroes, not just leaders, but leaders with a sense of responsibility to humanity. Regards, Natalia ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Darryl and Natalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:13 AM Subject: Re: [Futurework] A closer look at Al Gore | Darryl and Natalia wrote: | > | > All mail scanned by NAV | > | > Anyone interested in a collection of stories on Al Gore's political | > career, bits about his past and present life, with several pieces on | > why he's not so very different from Bush | | Does anyone seriously believe that Gore would have gotten not just the U.S. | but the whole planet into what I think/fear may prove to be one of the | "transformational" | events of world history: Bush's Iraq War? Then there's also Bush's | tax cuts uber alles, which also seems beyond what most other Republicans | would have done. | | I'd like to think that, at worst, another president [not from the sect | of Bushido, | of course!], if he had decided he wanted to go to war against Iraq, would | at least have done so under the ausipces of a real coalition (like Gulf | War I). | | I'd like to think another president would have done something with | the coalition that supported the U.S. after "911", to really work against | global terrorism. | | Give me Nixon; Give me Bush I; Give me Bob Dole. America's calling, | Henry Kissinger.... | | I wonder if even Ronald Reagan would have gone to war against Iraq the way | Bush II did it. Would the 20th century have been different without | Adolf Hitler | or Josef Stalin? Do individuals sometimes make a "real" difference? | | \brad mccormick | | -- | Let your light so shine before men, | that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) | | Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) | | <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ | _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
