In a message dated 2/18/2003 8:58:09 PM Central Standard Time,
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> Bush call the "enemy" pygmies, and thugs...... It just doesn't seem the
> smart thing to do. That's why I don't think Bush has a very full
> understanding of what his own name calling might provoke.
>
>
Mag,
Everything ANY president says is calculated. Whenever Bush I
pronounced Saddam, he pronounced the arabic equivalent for shoe shin boy. US
presidents don't speak off the cuff. So "Pygmies, Thugs..evildoers,
whatever", has a calculated impact. This is diplomacy in the 21st Century.
You take nothing at first hand because there is always a hidden and a very
calculated agenda.
Bobby