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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Ideology triumphs over security
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:05:21 -0700

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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