Colin:
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I only added George Bush as a joke. I didn?t think anyone would choose him.
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Why not? He is well qualified, runs a "state" with imprisonment without trial, invades other countries under the guise of "liberation", lies to the people who.. almost elected him, runs a secretive and unaccountable administration avoiding the "real" legislature. That is not any transparent democracy within the terms of the Constitution.
Johny Traffic:
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everybody slags of bush, but no one seems to care that sadam killed millions of his OWN people. I find that hard to understand.
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DUH? You also one of the people who thought WMD were found in Iraq, Muslims are terrorists and that Saddam cooks babies in an oven??
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For example, the past policy was to allow Europe, Japan and other nations to use our space satellite technology. This was to prevent other nations from building it themselves. With the current rift between the Bush admin, the Europeans are now planning to build their own sattelite tech(named Galileo, IIRC, google it for more info).
Next thing you know, they'll be another arms race. However, instead of the U.S. versus the USSR, it's more like the U.S. versus the world.
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Agree with most of that!
However are more ways to conduct a "war" than using arms (even they are useless when "unconventional" methods are used). This has already started on an economic front and a multitude of other ways.
I doubt there will be much free trade between the Americas - many of these countries who would have traded with the US are already negotiating dealing with other regions as well as the US - ie Europe and Asia. They then have a choice of who to sleep with.
Predications are that Europe will strenghen it's arms, but not to the extent of the US - tis just not viable or needed. (US spends the equivalent in "defense" of the next top 20 countries combined - that says much).
This year, for the first time since WWII, there is a drop in "brand loyality" in US manufactured products worldwide. This ranges from Big Macs to Nike - only exception was an increase in the Ford brand - but the rest wiped out the Ford increase and it is now a fair deficit. These stats are only recently published and it is predicted the next set will show more substantial losing of US brand loyalty.
By the way one of the main reasons for Galileo is the EU does not want to rely on the US for this, - basically they are not trusted - yet more revenue lost.
I doubt anyone seriously has any ambitions on having a WWIII - tho you can't predict a clown in Washington. The first sway to "power" in regions comes strong economies - the rest follows on... military hardware being a bi- product which is "supposed" to be "power" - but in real life, only goes a third of the way.
Who is/was more evil? Gotta be Stalin with the others *almost* equal... Bush has a length to run yet - wait for this to change
