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...weeks, Bush's success allowed him to escape these questions. The national consensus seemed to be that Bush was the moral leader in the Gulf crisis, even if he may have been a fool before...
From the beginning, Bush was only concerned with the United States' strategic interests and his own agenda. In his speeches, he tried to fool the public into believing the war was about morality. The nation went along, and the Kurds believed him, too. But when called to take a moral stand, Bush's actions betrayed the emptiness of his words...
...newspaper in Baltimore and claimed the paper was not radical enough. That, coupled with the fact that a huge chunk of his first paycheck went to the government, began to steer him away from liberalism. "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life but only a fool trusts either of them," writes O'Rourke in Parliament of Whores...
Chrysler Corp.'s bland announcement last week that it was dropping five of its 18 directors in order to "improve efficiency and effectiveness as well as reduce cost" didn't fool industry observers. The unusual pedigree of one of those directors -- Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers union -- signaled other, less technocratic motives. Most bets are that the willful U.A.W. boss, a board member since 1984, was dropped because of his frequent opposition to management, led by its equally willful chairman, Lee Iacocca. "There were a lot of 17-to-1 votes," Bieber said last week...
There were approximately 60 resistance groups operating at any given time, each with 40 to 50 members. The head of each cell knew his opposite number in other units, but his subordinates did not know one another. Elaborate codes were developed to fool eavesdropping Iraqis. Young girls carried bullets in their underwear. Fake identifications were common. A sophisticated printing operation was hidden a block from the headquarters of Iraq's secret police...