Bush is prepared to give in order to get and he has been quite successful.
You'll note that Saddam has given permission for full inspection by the UN. If he retreats from this agreement, he is likely to suffer from war. Maybe full inspection will be a reality and the fears of Saddam's prospective victims will be allayed.
Why were the inspectors pulled out last time? Because he knew he could get away with it. He thumbed his nose at the UN and they didn't have the gumption to protest.
He knows that Bush has the gumption to act. We'll see if that will cut him down to size.
If it works, we might be able to force the other recalcitrants along the road to peace and cooperation. Maybe North Korea and others will become more lovable if they know there is a determined American President.
But, if there is a hint of weakness any such pressure will disappear like a pricked balloon.
Kennedy took us to the brink of nuclear war. The reason for the Russian climb-down was because they thought that Kennedy would do what he promised.
Can you imagine what might have happened had Nobel winner Jimmy Carter been in the chair at that time. I rather think we would have had our nuclear war - not then, but in due course. Jimmy is as nice a person as one might meet, but he was a horrible President.
Democrat propaganda during the election was entirely ad hominem. Bush was depicted as a rock ribbed, right wing conservative, who was unintelligent, un-learned, a pawn of his father, a puppet for the oil interests, and a local boy. He obviously didn't have chance.
Opposing him was an 8 year vice-President, a Washington patrician, a politician who had travelled the world.
It was an uneven contest.
In fact it was no contest. Yet, when they faced each other in debate, Bush won. While the European papers chortled over every mis-speak - those who were watching the two, chose Bush.
The Florida vote was over 7 days after the election according to law. Bush had won. Everything that happened thereafter was illegal. The Court has no right to make laws. Yet, they did when they refused to accept Kathleen Harris' closure of the polling.
The law was clear, but the Florida Supreme Court were all political democrats and I rather think they had their orders.
Poor Kathleen Harris who as Secretary of State has a job that is mostly sinecure. Her only real official duty was the ceremonial certification of the vote, 7 days after the election. This, she dutifully did according to law.
She became the target for democrat frustration with the loss. As Reuters later reported: "Harris also received death threats, and she became the butt of countless jokes on late-night television shows. Critics panned not just her decisions but her dress sense and enthusiastic hand with make-up."
Yet, she had only one ceremonial decision - to declare the election over at the appropriate time on the appropriate day. If Republicans had used Uzis to keep democrats from the poll, that was not her concern. She just had to say 'the seven days are up and the results are recorded'.
However, she will be soon be a congresswoman so perhaps then all will be forgiven.
The result of all this was the democrat scream that Bush had stolen the election. That Gore had really won.
It was nonsense, but perhaps it salves the disappointment and anger of Democrats in cushy jobs who had to give them up to Republicans.
Thus for you Europeans, Keith, the fantasy has become fact. Bush is a dumbo who stole the election from Gore. I would remind you that since the steel tariff (ugh!) the administration has been busy making special import concessions (106 last time I noticed it). In return, Bush has managed to get 'fast track' authority to proceed with trade negotiations - something that Clinton lost.
Incidentally, Bush managed it with the help of the textile industry support - amazing considering the effect of imports on the industry.
So, this dumbo hick seems not to be doing too badly. His reputed negotiating skills seem to the fore. We'll see how he does if the Democrats get both houses in next month's election. The Democrats sole interest at that point will be kicking Bush out at the next election.
It's politics, you know - which activity takes precedence over everything in this over-politicized nation.
Read again what you wrote, Brad.
Politics seems to be getting in the way of your thinking, which is a shame for you think so well.
Harry
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Brad wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote: [snip] > Of course, Bush could be a dumbo who doesn't know the time of day.He knows it's ALWAYS time for everybody to tell him how great a Leader of The Free World he is. > Yet, > have you noticed how often he gets his way? Remember, I have been saying > for months that his reputation is that of a negotiator. He was good at this > in Texas. Maybe in Washington, he isn't being eaten alive (as was expected) > but is getting a lot of his own way. Ah! Now I see the right analogy to "Munich": Everybody giving in to this hypertrophied baby's threat of throwing a WMD temper tantrum. > > We'll see how it plays. I finished [re-]watching Werner Herzog's _Lessons of Darkness_. One of the most striking passages is where we see oil fires over the land, and the narrator explains that the people will seek to escape in death, but death will flee from them. You better not pout, you better not cry! You better not pout, I'm telling you why: George W Bush is coming to town. He's making a list, and checking it twice: He's gonna find out who's naughty and nice! George W Bush is coming to town! He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.... I hope Saddam is [to use that famous word deployed by every parent/schoolmarm vis-a-vis every misbehaving child]: LISTENING. I have a friend who says that there are certain people who are in need of *retroactive birth control*. Any wonder why Bush is against a woman's right to choose? \brad mccormick
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