Sorry...I meant 'right' as in correct or enlightened.

Lloyd Sumpter wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:55:50 +0000, Don White wrote:

Harry and any other 'right thinking Americans' .... you might be
interested in a
program aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp last night.

I thought Harry was a "left-thinking American" - Geez, I can never get
that
right...

Lloyd - sometimes right, mostly left

Toronto Star a "well respected " newspaper ?
LoL, give your head a shake there harry.






"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Truth catching up to Bush


Regardless of who emerges as the Democratic presidential nominee, the
race has already served its greater democratic purpose: It has blown
away George W. Bush's wartime aura of patriotic infallibility.

Not only Howard Dean, the passionate truth-teller about Iraq, but
Senator John Kerry, Gen. Wesley Clark and others have found their voices
to question almost all aspects of Bush's post-Sept. 11 performance.

They are bringing home to Americans the worldwide debates about their
president's penchant for exploiting and fanning fears by exaggerating
dangers, taking unilateral actions abroad, and squandering U.S.
credibility.

"The U.S. is facing a crisis of international legitimacy," writes Robert
Kagan, the respected analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, in the upcoming spring issue of Foreign Affairs magazine.

Adds Serge Schmemann, editorial page editor of the Paris-based
International Herald Tribune and a former writer for the New York Times:
"I've been living in France for the past six months and I often wonder
whether Americans are aware of the depth of the dread and revulsion in
which Bush's United States is held by many foreigners."

But, thanks to the debates in the Democratic primaries and other
developments, Americans are catching up.

Hardly a week goes by without new evidence of how Bush launched the war
on Iraq on false pretences. The latest source of embarrassment is
America's own chief weapons hunter in Iraq.

David Kay has declared that:

Iraq had no stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons.

It did not, as claimed by Washington, ship out such weapons to Syria. It
had none to ship.

Iraq had no weapons programs to speak of after about 1995.

Iraq did not get any nuclear cake from Niger.

The mobile weapons lab that Dick Cheney and Colin Powell portrayed as
death on wheels, were carriers of hydrogen for weather balloons.

These conclusions are the same as those of Scott Ritter, a member of the
first United Nations weapons inspections team that was withdrawn in
1998. And of Hans Blix, head of the reconstituted U.N. inspections team.
And of Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Kay made two more telling points, in interviews and at Congressional
hearings yesterday.

The administration's exaggerations aside, the Central Intelligence
Agency's intelligence gathering in Iraq was flawed, he said.

The CIA had infiltrated the U.N. Special Commission weapons inspection
teams to spy on Iraqi weapons capabilities (just as Saddam Hussein had
charged).

But "UNSCOM was like crack cocaine for the CIA," Kay told the New York
Times. Once withdrawn, the CIA was adrift and missed a key development
in Baghdad.

Saddam had lost touch with reality. He was approving every major
decision himself. Scientists were running scams. They would present him
with big schemes for weapons. He would grant huge sums of money. But not
much would be done.

These were the same con artists, you will recall, whom Washington wanted
interviewed by Blix and whisked out of Iraq so they could spill the
beans on Saddam's secret weapons!

Despite Kay's devastating indictment, Bush and the boys are refusing to
blink.

While no longer insisting, as they were until last week, that weapons
would eventually be found, Bush, Cheney and others have slipped into
their secondary argument: Saddam was evil and needed to be removed anyway.

But that was not their chosen tool to scare Americans into supporting
their war. Rather, it was that Saddam could attack America with his
deadly weapons, using missiles or terrorists.

To get around that blatant inconsistency, the White House is now trying
a new tack: that Bush had never characterized Saddam's danger as
"imminent," only as "grave and growing."

There is a difference?

The last time the White House tried such hair-splitting was when Bill
Clinton argued it was not "sex" that he had had with Monica Lewinsky.

The difference in this case, of course, is that more than 500 Americans
and nearly 15,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians are dead.

As for the policy of toppling bad guys, of whom there are many, Human
Rights Watch had something to say this week in a major report.

Humanitarian interventions, it said, are best reserved for stopping
ongoing or imminent slaughters, as in Rwanda (where no one intervened in
time) or in Iraq in 1988 when Saddam was gassing Kurds (and Washington
winked). And such actions are best taken multilaterally.

The lone sheriff tableau is exclusively American — an outdated one at
that, resurrected nonetheless in times of trouble for comforting
reassurance. But if a Newsweek poll is any indication — Kerry leading
Bush, 49 per cent to 46 per cent — the president may have overstayed his
welcome in that role as well.
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" Tuuk" wrote in message
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Toronto Star a "well respected " newspaper ?
LoL, give your head a shake there harry.

Interesting. What sorts of bad things have you heard about that newspaper?
Enlighten me.

This 'Tuuk' character is from Quebec. He probably only reads the sandal
tabloids.


Doug Kanter wrote in message
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" Tuuk" wrote in message
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Toronto Star a "well respected " newspaper ?
LoL, give your head a shake there harry.

Interesting. What sorts of bad things have you heard about that newspaper?
Enlighten me.

Doug Kanter wrote:

" Tuuk" wrote in message
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Toronto Star a "well respected " newspaper ?
LoL, give your head a shake there harry.

Interesting. What sorts of bad things have you heard about that newspaper?
Enlighten me.



The only newspaper Tuuk sees is "My Weekly Reader," and it is read aloud
to him.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:57:10 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

" Tuuk" wrote in message
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Toronto Star a "well respected " newspaper ?
LoL, give your head a shake there harry.

Interesting. What sorts of bad things have you heard about that newspaper?
Enlighten me.

Sorry to intrude, Doug. The only thing I've read or heard that would
affect my attitude about the paper is the article posted by Harry, and
the fact that Harry considers it to be "well respected."

Granted, those are not sufficient reasons for a reasonably fair person
to form an opinion, but I'm just trying to be honest here.

I answered only because you expressed an interest in enlightenment,
which, as a teacher, I find most noble.

Any lost trucks today?

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote in message
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Sorry to intrude, Doug. The only thing I've read or heard that would
affect my attitude about the paper is the article posted by Harry, and
the fact that Harry considers it to be "well respected."

Granted, those are not sufficient reasons for a reasonably fair person
to form an opinion, but I'm just trying to be honest here.

I answered only because you expressed an interest in enlightenment,
which, as a teacher, I find most noble.

I'm already enlightened on this subject. I'm just goading the terminally
stupid to get him to explain himself.

How about the Watertown Daily Times (http://www.wdt.net/) ? I wonder if Tuuk
has any special insights about that newspaper.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:24:27 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .

Sorry to intrude, Doug. The only thing I've read or heard that would
affect my attitude about the paper is the article posted by Harry, and
the fact that Harry considers it to be "well respected."

Granted, those are not sufficient reasons for a reasonably fair person
to form an opinion, but I'm just trying to be honest here.

I answered only because you expressed an interest in enlightenment,
which, as a teacher, I find most noble.

I'm already enlightened on this subject. I'm just goading the terminally
stupid to get him to explain himself.

How about the Watertown Daily Times (http://www.wdt.net/) ? I wonder if Tuuk
has any special insights about that newspaper.

I spent two glorious months in Watertown, or just outside, at what
used to be Camp Drum. The Watertown Daily Times is a *most*
respectable newspaper!

Is there still a lesbian bar downtown?

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:24:27 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"John H" wrote in message
.. .

Sorry to intrude, Doug. The only thing I've read or heard that would
affect my attitude about the paper is the article posted by Harry, and
the fact that Harry considers it to be "well respected."

Granted, those are not sufficient reasons for a reasonably fair person
to form an opinion, but I'm just trying to be honest here.

I answered only because you expressed an interest in enlightenment,
which, as a teacher, I find most noble.

I'm already enlightened on this subject. I'm just goading the terminally
stupid to get him to explain himself.

How about the Watertown Daily Times (http://www.wdt.net/) ? I wonder if
Tuuk
has any special insights about that newspaper.

I spent two glorious months in Watertown, or just outside, at what
used to be Camp Drum. The Watertown Daily Times is a *most*
respectable newspaper!

Is there still a lesbian bar downtown?

John H

No idea. But I'll be headed up there in the spring for bass fishing. I'll
let you know. Did you ever run into Fred Ecksley, the author, in any of the
bars up that way? He was one of Watertown's most famous exports.

....as opposed to 'left' or sinister

Yes, I know. Just trying to make a funny. Reminds me of a TV ad with puppets
representing Reagan and Gorby. At the end, Ray-gun says "You may be right..."
and Gorby says "...but mostly left!" Can't remember what it was advertising...

Then there's Bloom County, where people were discussing "left-wingers" and Opus
looks at his left wing in puzzlement...

Lloyd - member of the Sinistral Minority

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:50:46 +0000, Don White wrote:

Sorry...I meant 'right' as in correct or enlightened.

Lloyd Sumpter wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:55:50 +0000, Don White wrote:

Harry and any other 'right thinking Americans' .... you might be
interested in a
program aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corp last night.

I thought Harry was a "left-thinking American" - Geez, I can never get
that
right...

Lloyd - sometimes right, mostly left