[Vision2020] RE: A Reagan supporter tells it like it is

Fri Feb 17 09:42:03 PST 2006

I would have to submit that it is not Gore you despise but the truth that he 
speaks. Or have you met the man? Many Republicans seem to accept this 
administrations actions just because it is derived from their political 
party. Bush isn't a Republican, he is an opportunistic person who is out to 
line his pocket and gather power for his own pleasures, at any cost to our 
nation.

>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] RE: A Reagan supporter tells it like it is
>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:51:59 -0800
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>So some 'republican' agrees! Wow I really must change my estimation of 
>Gore.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
>To: <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:54 AM
>Subject: [Vision2020] RE: A Reagan supporter tells it like it is
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>I cut a little from this article to show there is Republican agreement with
>Gore's stance. To be intelligent is not treasonous anywhere but in the Bush
>administration Pat.
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>Roberts' article appears under the headline: "Who Will Save America?" Who
>indeed! The full text of his remarks can be read at www.counterpunch.org.
>
>Paul Craig Roberts was former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
>Reagan administration. He also served as Associate editor of the Wall 
>Street
>Journal and was a contributing editor of National Review. He is greatly
>concerned about the direction this country is taking.
>Roberts says he abandoned right-wing Republicanism when he saw the
>neoconservative element in the party respond to 9/11 by turning a war
>against terrorism into attacks on Muslim nations. He said: "I realized that
>the Bush administration was committing a strategic blunder with open-ended
>disastrous consequences for the U.S. that, in the end, would destroy Bush,
>the Republican Party and the conservative movement."
>He believes the Bush administration has arrived at a point where it intends
>to make the American people irrelevant, totally
>
>Roberts sees that as symptomatic of what is taking place in the U.S. today.
>"The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill
>of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself," he said. "The 'liberal
>press' has been co-opted. As everyone must know by now, The New York Times
>has totally failed its First Amendment obligations, allowing Judith Miller
>to make war propaganda for the Bush administration, suppressing for an
>entire year the news that the Bush administration was illegally spying on
>American citizens, and denying coverage to Al Gore's speech that challenged
>the criminal deeds of the Bush administration." (See article about the
>wiretap scandal.)
>
>He rightly notes that Homeland Security and the Patriot Act do nothing to
>protect us. Instead, they undercut our safeguards by shredding the
>Constitution and our civil liberties. Roberts commented: "Those with a
>tyrannical turn of mind have always used fear and hysteria to overcome
>obstacles to their power and to gain new means of silencing opposition."
>
>"Hamas' victory in the recent Palestinian elections indicates that Muslim
>outrage over further U.S. aggression in the Middle East has the potential 
>to
>produce uprisings in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Not even
>Karl Rove and Fox 'News' could spin Bush out of the catastrophe," Roberts
>said.
>The perpetual "war on terror" serves many interests, last of all, that of
>the American people's welfare. Roberts points out that the Federalist
>Society, from whence came Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, is 
>using
>the "war" to stack the high court and concentrate power in the executive
>branch; the neocons are using it to gain their objective of Israeli 
>hegemony
>in the Middle East; police agencies are using it to remove restraints on
>their powers and make themselves less accountable; Republicans are using it
>to achieve one-party rule-their own; the Bush administration is using the
>war to avoid accountability and limits on executive powers. The arms
>industries are using it to fatten their bottom lines; terrorism experts use
>it to get more visibility; and security companies use it to gain customers.
>The list goes on and on. The lack of debate removes the limits.
>
>Roberts concludes: "One certainty prevails. Bush is committing America to a
>path of violence and coercion, and he is getting away with it."
>
>James Reynolds
>
>
> >From: "James Reynolds" <chapandmaize at hotmail.com>
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Gore's Foreign Policy
> >Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 08:56:24 -0800
> >
> >Al Gore was following the only path toward resolution of the long-term
> >miss-steps that our Government has employed in the Mideast. His talk in
> >Saudi Arabia should not (as it is by some) be looked at as anti-America 
>but
> >instead is a first step in reconciling the relationship problems between
> >the Mideast and the USA, American foreign policy has contributed to. We
> >must return to the premise that diplomacy and honest open discourse are 
>the
> >tools needed to rectify our political problems abroad. Our government's
> >reliance on direct military force against foreign governments and 
>military
> >assistance to dissidents against those same governments has contributed
> >manifestly to the problems that are now threatening the security of the
> >Mideast and the American people's own freedom. Our government needs to
> >change its emphasis from the current militaristic attitude to one of
> >diplomacy before it is too late.
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