By George, it's a worry

09nov03

IT IS astonishing that old university radicals haven't adopted George Bush
to their psychedelic hearts.

This week Bush confirmed that he really is a child of the protest
generation.
When the United States President was young, Leftist radicals everywhere
sneered at the US for cosying up to corrupt dictators and Right-wing
generalissimos.

The US policy then was as former president Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly
put it: "They may be sons of bitches, but they're our sons of bitches." The
Shah, Marcos, Pinochet -- the lot.

But last week Bush said: No more. Morality was the best policy. The US could
no longer afford to make friends with dictators.

"Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of
freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long
run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty," he declared.

In the end, the dictator is always shot. Or toppled. And then his foreign
friends look to the world like weasels.

This is the moral rhetoric our hip revolutionaries have waited their lives
to hear. But hearing it from a Right-wing President confuses them.

And so, in their floundering, we see the Left even now defending from US
"aggression" fine statesmen like Saddam Hussein. It's a policy Roosevelt
would applaud.


"Bobsprit" wrote in message
...

More of our proud youth has died, this time in ANOTHER chopper crash. Bush
is
back to calling the conflict a "war: after billing us for an event that
said it
wasn't.
This is NOT what America is about. Jessica Lynch had courage...courage to
overturn our government's lies about her capture and rescue. No shooting
of
Iraqi's until she was overrun. No combat. Just a child sent into harms way
by
men who only seek to retard the advancement of human-kind.
How many children will Bush murder next week, trapped in a political
coffin of
his own making?
Bin Laden is still free. He dined better than we did last night.

RB-A true patriot