[biofuel] Washington Wants War! Was: Just one man's observation!

2003-02-25 Thread Ken Provost
Keith writes: This is exactly why the US, the UK and the other Allies formed the UN after WW2. It is a problem for the whole world, not just Washington, and when the whole world disagrees with Washington's proposed solution, Washington should listen, rather than trying to railroad the UN and

Re: [biofuel] Washington Wants War! Was: Just one man's observation!

2003-02-25 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Ken Keith writes: This is exactly why the US, the UK and the other Allies formed the UN after WW2. It is a problem for the whole world, not just Washington, and when the whole world disagrees with Washington's proposed solution, Washington should listen, rather than trying to

Re: [biofuel] Washington Wants War! Was: Just one man's observation!

2003-02-25 Thread Hakan Falk
Ken, I am not sure that it is a good idea. Many Americans would take it as an even larger offense. If Washington lived now, I do not think that he would like to be that associated with Bush and what is going on in the city that have his name. Maybe we could start to call both America, US and

Re: [biofuel] Washington Wants War!

2003-02-25 Thread csakima
You are correct Hakan. 'Ol George WOULD be rather horrified at what this good country he started had become. It has become overflowing with Corruption ... Propaganda ... etc. In fact, 'ol George would probably even be embarrassed of continuing to call this country America. It's not the

Re: [biofuel] Washington Wants War! Was: Just one man's observation!

2003-02-25 Thread robert luis rabello
Hakan Falk wrote: Many Americans would take it as an even larger offense. I don't speak for all Americans, but I don't take offense. It's common in English to refer to a nation's government by the name of its capital--it's like a collective noun. We understand that when a news

Re: [biofuel] Washington Wants War! Was: Just one man's observation!

2003-02-25 Thread Hakan Falk
Dear Robert, I took this with Washington or Bushington as a joke with a bit seriousness in it. After all, it is not American bashing that we do when we foreigners are critic it is the policies. We suffer in Europe from the US policies, because of spill over effects and the influence US have.