Bush Administration Launches New Classical Music Appreciation Effort

Of course they won't. About 'clearing out the settlements', I wonder when the German people in the eastern parts of Germany given to Poland at the end of WWII will start blowing up Polish children in their righteous struggle of liberation. I am sure that the antisemitic, pardon me, the 'anti-Zionist' gentlemen who think blowing up on purpose babies in the malls is the right answer to 'illegal settlements' will salute such an idea.

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Old Chap has no idea which music of Wagner 'psyched up' American troops but doubts it was either Siegfried Idyll or Wiesdendonk Lieder or Parsifal.

If, per chance, it was anything from the Ring they might care to note how it ends: a group of sad old chaps trudging over a bridge to oblivion accompanied by six harps and two timpanists. And if it was Meistersinger it depends, so far as I remember, upon the judge.

Kind regards, Alan M. Watkins

Anyone who's seen 'Apocalypse Now' knows what the appropriate selection would have been.

Isn't it amazing how we both love the same music (oh, and that voice)?. . . However, from Belgium to US, from heart to heart, another Nat King Cole song & lyrics would fit the day's bill. . . :

Darling, je vous aime beaucoup Je ne sais pas what to do

Morning, noon and night-time too Toujours wondering what to do

Wish my French were good enough I'd tell you so much more

But I hope that you compree All the things you mean to me

. . . yes, would be more appropriate for the following bit of news. It is amazing to eventually see a mouse courageous enough to admit that biting the, well, 'unpronounceable' of a formerly benevolent elephant might not be the wisest among policies.

Bruxelles, Belgium

A leading Belgian politician has proposed abolishing his country's war crimes law, which has soured relations with the United States after it was used to file charges against prominent American leaders.

Former Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene made the proposal after repeated U.S. demands for the repeal of the 1993 law.

'I think our ambitions are higher than our possibilities and that can jeopardize the role we have to play as European capital,' Dehaene was reported to say. 'It's a bit crazy to think we could be the conscience of the world,' he added.

Mazeltov, Jean-Luc! Having common sense can be quite the adventure, these days!

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The Ring does not end that way. The first opera of the cycle ends that way however the end of the Ring is the destruction of the gods and Valhalla.

Mr Wilson! Do you mean to prophesize that

Yes, we both love the same music - and often even the same kind of interpretations, and yet ...

Indeed, formerly benevolent ...

With the Bushite regime in power - who can afford to have a conscience?

Only, it seems, by Hagel and you.

Me too. As the chief architect of the Iraq debacle-in-the-making, Rumsfeld is likely to soon come in for a great deal of heat.

Marc Perman

> > HPLeft > >> >> >>> ... and Donny is held the low repute that he justly deserves. >> >> Only, it seems, by Hagel and you. > > > Me too. As the chief architect of the Iraq debacle-in-the-making, > Rumsfeld is likely to soon come in for a great deal of heat. > > Marc Perman > > I see. The impending 'debacle' has now replaced the 'quagmire' which didn't happen. I'll grant you points for persistence, if not for accuracy.

Bob Harper

With 'being willing to change direction on a dime', do you refer perchance to some American leaders' compromising and sycophantic habit to conduct (and change) their foreign policies overnight, according to today's public opinion poll, rather than attempting to follow a minimally consistent strategy?

Don't say! I am appalled!! ( :

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