“[This] from one scary Texan. There is some kind of anger in the man alone, hostility that sometimes seems barely under control – as if he were, in street language, being ‘disrespected.’” Richard Reeves, Bush is Taking Saddam and Kim Too Personally, 1/18/03
"Bush," wrote Georgie Anne Geyer, "has a religiously inspired grandiosity of character which leads him to believe he has been called to a religious duty in the Middle East to rid the world of Saddam Hussein!"
"Attacking another country to accomplish "regime change" is a grave matter in human terms, and in the effect it will have on international norms and legal precedent.
"...If the affair goes badly, the administration and the Republican Party will pay; but the American nation may be done lasting harm."
William Pfaff
Bush War Fever Could Burn US
Bush and Rumsfeld, and their advisers, are scaring the hell out of many people around the world.... For our part, we cite Sept. 11 and certain surly dictators as the reason for our new belligerence. As always, we mean well, or think we do, but that does not make us any less dangerous to the foreigners beholding us and hearing our threats. Richard Reeves, 1/2/03, http://www.uexpress.com/richardreeves/viewrr.cfm?uc_full_date=20030102&uc_comic=rr&uc_daction=X
"[I]t is now contemplated to increase the pressure by actively discouraging not merely oil, but grain [shipments to North Korea]. This leaves Mr. Bush with responsibility for enhancing starvation in North Korea, and this appears to run against the moral grain. Granted, the United States has never undertaken to feed every country in the world that is short of food, but to withhold grain as a matter of policy is something more merely than the question of acknowledging that in many countries food is scarce." William F. Buckley, Starve them out? 1/3/03
http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/buckley/story/5781385p-6751041c.html
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