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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 9/28/2004 8:16:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> tvoivozd AT infionline.net writes:
> The new Special 
> Counsel, Scott Bloch, says his interpretation of a 1978 law intended to 
> protect employees and job applicants from adverse personnel actions is 
> that gay and lesbian workers are not covered.
> Interesting, didn't know this.
>
>   So the president 
>   responds by firing six Arabic language interpreters because they 
>   happened to be gay 
>
> I just don't see any president Bush or otherwise, in their first days in 
> office, hunting down
> low level gay translators to fire. I still think it is all just another way 
> to point fingers.
>
>  
tvoivozhd---no one, I repeat no one in the Bush administration  departs 
from Bush policy.  When it comes to something as important as long-term 
regulations, especially regulations in place since 1978, Bush's personal 
stamp of approval is required.  There have been only two departures from 
this in the past four years---by Powell and Richard Armitage, the latter 
a little-known octogenerian power behind the military and foreign-policy 
throne.  Powell can occasionally stray and is immune from reprisal 
because he provides irreplaceable and high-profile cover for Bush in the 
U.N. and the world press.  Arnitage is technically Powell's assistant 
and is the grey eminence who developed with Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice, 
et. al, the initial Iraq reinvasion.  Unfortunately  those other than 
Armitage decided to hit the publicity button,, play down the reinvasion 
aspect and recast Iraq in living technicolor as a brand-new war against  
forces of evil being exhibited on U.S. and world television.  Canny 
policy if decent planning and execution laid behind it, Bush The Savior 
would have emerged.  Armitage is immune in his recent criticism of the 
prosecution of the Iraq reinvasion, beczuse he is respected, right, and 
couldn't care less if he were dismissed.

Oh, yeah, Bloch would have been fired by Bush within hours if his new 
regulations did not conform exactly to Bush expectations and desires.

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