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colorado springs citizen on Monday, May 26, 2008 10:46:29 AM
For more than five years now, we have been virtually uncritical of the
most powerful nation in the world, which under President Bush’s
administration is conducting two debilitating wars and in doing so has
steadily lost power and respect. Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Ben Bot, has a few times expressed doubts about Washington’s
wisdom. On October 5, 2005, he asked at a government commission meeting
whether in hindsight it had been wise to start the attack on Iraq. A
year later he let it be known that he felt that he had been misled when
he discovered that Secretary Rice had not told him the truth about the
secret CIA prisons. Bot was right. He did not return to the next
Cabinet. In his place is now Maxime Verhagen, who in an interview once,
let it slip that he finds it “a joy” to talk with colleague Rice.