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BUSH AS A FRONT MAN

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From: Roanoke Times & World News
Date: 20051117
Author:Jerome Schleifer

The erudite historian Henry Adams declared, "modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces" and "those forces, if they exist at all, will not easily reveal themselves." Machiavelli observed that people are tuned to generalities, but weak on specifics. The public is aware that powerful forces control the country's destiny, but has no clue to what goes on behind closed doors.

More and more it becomes obvious that one of the primary objectives of the forces behind the current administration is privatization. The beneficiary, of course, is the force that has bought ...

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