How the East was won
03/28/05
That the Bush administration has unleashed a war of 'the poor against the rich' may seem anomalous to some of us here at home -- after all, this is the same administration that is making it harder for the poor to declare bankruptcy while at the same time giving the rich the right to keep their Mercedes -- but this is nothing new for our Janus-faced administration: they are royalists at home and Jacobins abroad. While the Bushians claim the right to suspend the Bill of Rights in the U.S., they do more than merely proclaim their 'global democratic revolution' -- they are acting on it. It was therefore not at all surprising to read the text of a purloined memo from U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Stephen Young -- originally posted on the official news site of the Kyrgyzstan government -- that outlines in detail the American plan to oust Akayev...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5351
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
That the Bush administration has unleashed a war of 'the poor against the rich' may seem anomalous to some of us here at home -- after all, this is the same administration that is making it harder for the poor to declare bankruptcy while at the same time giving the rich the right to keep their Mercedes -- but this is nothing new for our Janus-faced administration: they are royalists at home and Jacobins abroad. While the Bushians claim the right to suspend the Bill of Rights in the U.S., they do more than merely proclaim their 'global democratic revolution' -- they are acting on it. It was therefore not at all surprising to read the text of a purloined memo from U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Stephen Young -- originally posted on the official news site of the Kyrgyzstan government -- that outlines in detail the American plan to oust Akayev...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5351
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 28. Mär, 15:13
