Bye Bye Rumsfeld

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New defense nominee an intelligence veteran

CNN) -- President Bush said Wednesday he has chosen Robert Gates to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense.
Gates was director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1991 to 1993, in the George H. W. Bush administration. He has been president of Texas A&M University since 2002.
Gates joined the CIA in 1966 and spent nearly 27 years as an intelligence professional, serving six presidents, according to his biography on the Texas A&M Web site.
During that period, he spent nearly nine years at the National Security Council, serving four presidents of both political parties, the biography said.
Gates declined an offer to become the first Director of National Intelligence, a position created by the intelligence overhaul bill that Bush signed into law in 2004 in response to the September 11 attacks.
"There seems to be a growing number of rumors in the media and around campus that I am leaving Texas A&M to become the new director of national intelligence ("Intelligence Czar") in Washington, D.C.," Gates wrote in a message posted on the school's Web site February 1, 2005.
"To put the rumors to rest, I was indeed asked to take the position, wrestled with perhaps the most difficult -- and close -- decision of my life, and last week declined the position."
John Negroponte was nominated for the position last year.

see the entire article in: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/gates.profile/index.html

see also: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/rumsfeld/index.html

Midterm elections 2006: the day after tomorrow

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FINALLY!

The world, not only the United States, is relieved.

After a storm lasted more than 4 years which brought the entire world to a new ice age, springtime is coming back again. We really hope that certain "incumbent" dinosaurs and mammoth will reamin estinguished forever even if there are still very dangerous wild animals free to attack, but it will not be as easy as it was for them.
The pilot (the American citizens) was good enough to come back to a safe port before reaching the point of non return without gas and with broken engines.

The Tzunami, as the CNN called it, spreaded a "blue" wave in those thirsty and dry red states, letting them know the world and the Americans had enough.
The unfortunate geographical position of the United States which for many years didn't let undertand the people in this country what is the meaning of being part of this world is now history.

After this elections the Americans understood that a powerful and democratic country like this with solid traditions of fighting for freedom and justice couldn't afford anymore to fight wars agaist countries of peasants and poor people (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq) calling it "a great victory" showing off the best technology .... this is so coward! As it is coward to send to war young untrained soldiers, most of them without an appropriate education because of poverty, and without knowing anything about the traditions, the religion and the language of other people.

Lies don't bring to any "mission accomplished" as well as stealing (without paying) oil from the wells of another country doesn't make you look "moral" having so many "closeted" and corrupted people in your lists.

I believe in the United States of America much more now than when I arrived here 4 years ago full of prejudism and stereotypes. America is ready to take the lead in the way it should be. The end of the cold war is bringing back people to use their own brain rather than the presidential one and see the things the way they really are and not the way they told you they are. Some of these stereotypes really still exist but most of the people here are ready to work for a much better future.

Good morning America! Breakfast is ready and you deserve it!

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Survey shock in UK, Israel, Canada and Mexico



















London, November 3rd 2006
(from "La Repubblica": http://www.repubblica.it/2006/11/sezioni/esteri/sondaggio-bush/sondaggio-bush/sondaggio-bush.html)

Survey shock in 4 pro-USA Countries. For 69% of the British, the Americans from 2001 have rendered the world less sure. Who could be more dangerous of Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president and Kim Jong, the North Korean president? - Who is the "Public Enemy # 1"?

The answer is simple: George W. Bush. The president of the United States would be more dangerous of the leaders of the states inserted in the famous ' axis of evil': the Iranian Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the North Korean Kim Jong.

Bush is second only to Osama bin Laden.


The list of the most harmful personages for the world-wide peace, has been realized thanks to a survey commissioned jointly bythe daily paper "Guardian" in Great Britain, "Haaretz" in Israel, "Pressed" and "Toronto Star" in Canada and the "Reforma" in Mexico.

The result of the survey confirms, just a few days before the ballot of the midterm elections for the renewal of the United Staes Congress and Senate, what everybody already knew for a long time but never reported in figures: the foreign countries don't like and are worried for the "cowboy" foreigh politic of G.W. Bush.

The point is that the survey has been limited, for the moment, only to those countries, like Great Britain, who are in front line in Afghanistan, Iraq and other issues.

Only the 7% of the people interviewed in Great Britain, believe that the wars improved the total emergency while the 69% of the hundreds interviewed say that the American foreign policy since 2001 brought us to a less secure world. Conviction shared also by the public opinion in the countries adjacent to the north and the south of the United States (62% of the Canadians 57% of the Mexicans.

But the most clamorous thing is that also in Israel, always been the main bastion for the United States emergencies, is diminishing the number of the supporters of Bush politics. Only the 25% believe that these interventions aid the emergency, while the 36% thinks that it damages it and the 30% considers that the Bush policies made no difference at all.