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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> The problem with this idea is that any such statement would be not that
> of the people of the US, but of the US government, which for some reason
> the rest of the US-hating world can't seem to comprehend, changes hands
> every 2-8 years or so as the two major parties wax and wane in influence
> and control over various offices. Should George Bush be blamed for the
> misdeeds of Clinton, or Johnson, or Carter, or FDR? If we, the people,
The name on the door changes, but it's the same damn thing. Anybody who
makes it to the top layer of power can only get there by making so many
compromises that the sum of their vectors is almost dead-on status quo.
I don't expect Dubya to take real steps toward a smaller government
and fewer foreign adventures than I expected Clinton to take real
steps toward curtailing corporate encroachments on people's liberties.
Pro-government government or slightly less openly pro-government
government is still government that seeks to perpetuati itself.
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* I believe that the majority of the world's Muslims are good, *
* honorable people. If you are a Muslim and want to reassure me and *
* others that you are part of this good, honorable majority, all *
* you need to say are nine simple words: "I OPPOSE the Wahhabi cult *
* and its Jihad." *
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