[Hi MH,
I’m also not pleased with Bush. I still think he’s the lesser of two evils. I said a few months ago, that after reading up on how the CIA works, etc – I am coming to the conclusion that America is run by “Middle Management”. I said that Military/Intelligence people have long term strategies in place. This “Liberalism” and this love of the UN and these processes is part of that strategy. Some of this liberal strategy does make sense. Underneath this wishy-washy talk is some kind of long term logic.

But like you, I think it also leads to problems. I agree that Saddam Hussein had time to spirit away the WMD. We know that the Russian Embassy in Baghdad played a crucial role in spiriting away a lot of stuff in the final days. We know of American planes firing on the Russians – because the Russians were busy assisting Saddam’s people.

It appears to me, that Middle Management – plays a huge role in controlling the President. The American President is not like a Caesar, who has a vision and foists it on everyone. Instead, he is given input from many departments and they force him into their way of thinking. So elections are almost farcical. One President is hardly different to the other. To me that’s the sad thing about American politics.

But, I think that same Middle Management will find that their Liberal strategy against terrorism will not work. Inch by inch, the terrorists are gaining ground.

Also, in my CIA readings, I noted a prediction by an ex-CIA analyst in the late 1970’s that the CIA would, in the future, play ever larger roles in the USA.

The USA is a funny country. I see there is a reluctance by the Govt to tell the populace the bad news. I see too, that Congress, prevents open warfare at times. So what instead happens is that the CIA becomes the Secret Arm of the President and Middle Management. It allows them to do things and to take action without going through the stale-mate that is Congress. So I think, the War on Terror will cause the CIA to EXPLODE into a veritable ARMY. And if you look around the world, the CIA is everywhere now… killing terrorists silently. The CIA is probably now bigger than ever in its history, and probably growing at a rapid rate because it is the main weapon that fights terrorism – but without much being said in public.

American leaders sometimes scare me, but I’m starting to think the President is relatively unimportant and that Middle Management kicks all Presidents into line. They tell him national security stuff which is undeniably important (which they all keep from the American public) and then he goes along with the actions they propose. When it comes to National Security, I think the USA is a very “closed society”. It is open in all other respects. But when it comes to military stuff, it is amazingly closed. Jan]

I use to support President Bush considering he was the lesser of the evils between someone like Gore and someone like Kerry. But Bush’s policies have been subverted back to the Clintonian policies. We’re still talking with North Korea, Iran and of course relying on the failed organization known as the United Nations to take care of those things.

I for one believe it was because of America going to the U.N. that gave Saddam Hussein the time to smuggle his WMD with the aid of Russia into Syria along with three other members of the U.N.-Germany, France and China getting rich off the Oil for Food scandal. It also bothers me that Bush is going the Clintonian line when he’s quite openly friendly to the Soviet-Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin and of course his Chinese counterpart-Hu Jintao even though they get rich off our enemies and arm them even with nuclear programs such as with Iran.

It’s for those primary reasons why I have become disillusioned with President Bush along with of course Bush supporting Israel’s pull out of the West Bank and now there looks like there could be a civil war between Palestinian and Palestinian along with allowing terror groups to get a good advantage of firing more rockets against the Israelis and provoking futher conflict. It’s just really shows how much of Bush’s foreign policies to a certain extent are in many ways no better than Clinton’s. MH, USA

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