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9/28/04 I put this on the top because it doesn't effect what I say by being here & I think it is important. Recently president Bush paraded Iyad Allawi before the U. N. in New York & the Press in front of the White House. It may have been a good political move (Queen to B 1 check but he missed the knight at C 3) The Iraqi interim government is highly suspect in Iraq as being a puppet government of the U. S.  It needs publicity like that which it got from the administration as much as a rabbit needs a fox. Let's take a common sense look at what happened. (Your an Iraqi citizen sitting in a coffee house in Baghdad, your undecided about how you feel about the new government, when all of the sudden you see Allawi pop on the television and almost parrot what the President of the country that is seen as an occupier of yours says.) Some of your friends have been saying that the new government is just a puppet government. Didn't you just see the proof of their statements.

The administration has to use some common sense. Negotiations with the new government have to be discreet. We can't keep on forcing our will on the people of Iraq. (You can offer a cookie to a stray dog but you had better not try to shove it in his mouth.) The interim government has to look like it has the interest of the Iraqi people uppermost in it's agenda. It can't look like it's an arm of the U.S. government. We need an administration with more common sense.

A good example of how George Bush conducts foreign policy was recently seen by anyone who who has been following the campaign. He, George Bush, became the first president since it's conception not to meet with the NAACP. This has been the case four all four years of his administration.

Apparently some of it's leaders didn't agree with some of his policies and made it known. They may have even said some nasty things but that shouldn't have mattered. He should still have going to their convention even if he wasn't liked. He is the man who ran on a promise to unite the country. I guess what he really meant is "I will unite the country as long as it goes alone with everything I say." I know these kinds of people, I've negotiated union contracts with them.

I use this as an example, granted it wasn't foreign policy but he treats foreign leaders the same way. If you don't agree with him, you may be called Old Europe and told your not relevant.

For the first time since Jimmy Carter an American President hasn't met with the President of the Palestinian Authority & the Prime Minister of Israel at the same time. You've seen the results, There has been an enormous increase in the violence in the area & a deepening hatred for the U. S. by the Palestinians.

When he first took office he snubbed a lot of world leaders including the prim minister of Canada. He wouldn't meet with anyone till he met with Vicente Fox the President of Mexico even though Fox couldn't meet with him for awhile.

His remarks that France, Germany & Russia were not important in the new Europe. God! he knows how to offend people. The U.N. is irrelevant, even though it has done more in human rights programs then any other organization on earth, backed us in the War in Afghanistan, & sent troops into Iraq during the Golf War. The problem was that this time they didn't bow down to his demands.

He has held back funding for Aids prevention & education throughout the world because other countries won't fall into line with his thinking on abortion & abstinence. Just when did he stop being a president & become a God? People all over the world are dying because of his policies. At least President Clinton is helping, he runs a non profit organization that helps get inexpensive aids medicine to needy countries. Some Americans still care about the poor of the world.

Early in his administration he backed out of the Kyoto Protocol, which almost every country had signed on to, another gift to his rich polluting supporters. With the U. S. giving off 25% of the world's CO2 the treaty doesn't stand a chance.

George Bush's idea of diplomacy is   "My way or the highway."

Now after all the things he has done or said about other foreign leaders he has the nerve to ask for their help.

Shortly after 9/11 a leading French newspaper's headline read in giant print "We Are All Americans Now". Now thanks to George Bush we've lost that support.

Bill Clinton, though he had some disagreements with Vladimir Putin, maintained a very good relationship with the Russian President. George Bush on the other hand hasn't. In fact Putin said, today 9/06/04, that the United States & George Bush has shown a double standard when in came to terrorism since we attacked terrorist around the world, yet said that Russia's war on Terrorism was really only a civil war in Chechnya.

On Monday, Putin said that mid-level officials in the U.S. government were undermining his country's war on terrorism by contacting Chechen separatists, whom he compared to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Asked about Putin's comment, U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: "There have not been any recent meetings between department officials and Chechen political figures, separatists or political figures.

Note: the word recent. I really don't think a Kerry State Department would handle the situation in the same way. After all the Cold War is over.

Chechnya has been apart of Russia on and off since 1818. If Georgia tried to secede from the union by force wouldn't we fight to keep it a part of the U. S.? Wasn't that why we fought the Civil War?

A large mushroom cloud recently was seen over North Korea. The State Department said that it wasn't a nuclear weapons test, I believe them but what if it had been? We know that they are trying to develop a nuclear weapon and we also know that they sell weapons on the international black market. We also know that terrorist are trying to get these weapons. Now I ask you, why hasn't the Bush administration met with North Korea? You can't come to an agreement without a face to face. You can't solve a problem by ignoring it. Where's the diplomacy?

10/09/06:  Now we see what lack of diplomacy leads to. Not to long ago North Korea tested several missiles and now they have tested a nuclear weapon. I'm not saying diplomacy would have worked but we know for sure that not trying didn't. It appears we had nothing to loose and we might have had everything to gain.

Foreign policy the way it should be: