In a message dated 2/18/03 9:21:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Subj: Re: mag raine's report from the bay area
>  Date: 2/18/03 9:21:03 PM Pacific Standard Time
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> In a message dated 2/18/2003 8:58:09 PM Central Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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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
>

Yes, I suppose so, Bobby.  It's a bad example though, for the children. I
think it is sort of dis-greaceful;.in the fullest meaning of that word.

mag


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