Re: Covering ones ass twice over

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

yes, it's a Karl Rove-type strategy (and it meshes well with neo-con "we are the world" arrogance) but it undermines other efforts by the Bushmasters to get France, Germany, Russia, and Canada to help the US. 

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: ravi [mailto:gadfly@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:24 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Covering ones ass twice over
> 
> 
> k hanly wrote:
> > Seems that not only is the US justified in excluding those 
> not part of the
> > coalition of the willing for security reasons and thus 
> consistent with WTO
> > rules but also CPA is not subject to rules in first place..
> >     The sheer idiocy of US policy is hard to fathom. Just 
> as Baker is out
> > begging Germany, France and Russia to forgive Iraq debt it 
> is announced that
> > they are excluded from these contracts.
> >
> 
> could this be another karl rove strategy? it seems that a 
> majority among
> the voting population here at home (USA) might be liberal on 
> some fronts
> (affirmative action or pro-choice perhaps?) but united in being
> suspicious if not hateful of/towards the rest of the world. by
> presenting the issue as "US taxpayer money should come back to US
> companies, not to those foreigners who snubbed us in the first place.
> its american soldies who are dying. etc", bush can once again 
> rally the
> masses behind him, once again diverting attention from the 
> real issues.
> 
>         --ravi
>