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President Bush announces 'Son of

Posted May 2, 2001 10:15 AM.

President Bush announces 'Son of Star Wars'. This is actually quite a fascinating speech rhetorically and heavily illuminates the way in which completely opposing view points can be made to seem equally reasonable. It's a thin line to between building a world community based upon trust and diplomacy and building one based upon superior weapons technology. Let's hope he treads it carefully.

"Our highest ideal was -- and remains -- individual liberty. Theirs was the construction of a vast communist empire. Their totalitarian regime held much of Europe captive behind an iron curtain."

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