From: mister_exador@hotmail.com   
      
   "Earl Evleth"  wrote in message   
   news:BB264717.9549%evleth@wanadoo.fr...   
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   > William Pfaff is a top international journalist   
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   > Earl   
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   > Britain stirs, America sleeps   
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   > William Pfaff IHT   
   > Monday, June 30, 2003   
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   > PARIS The only member of the United States Senate who voted against   
   granting   
   > war powers to President George W. Bush, Robert Byrd of West Virginia,   
   holds   
   > that lies were told by the president to justify the Iraq war, and that   
   > eventually truth will out.   
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   > One would like to believe it true. But while Senator Byrd will be   
   vindicated   
   > in the long run, the culture of lies that prevails in the Bush   
   > administration is an integral part of a larger culture of expedience and   
   > systematic dishonesty that dominates the present leadership of American   
   > political society and business. There is little reason to expect this soon   
   > to change.   
      
   I think this paragraph sums up my main beef with the US pretty well. I could   
   probably live reasonably comfortably with the US as the dominant power if I   
   felt those in power were honourable people of good intent. The current   
   regime of self-serving hypocrisy, lies, corruption and plain corporate   
   extortion just don't stack up as acceptable alternatives.   
   Cheers,   
   Craig   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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