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¶ … unseen terrorism and at the brink of a possible war with Iraq many Americans sat with baited breath waiting for the State of the Union Address from President Bush on January 28 of 2003. President Bush addressed several issues that were at least personally surprising to hear. The three domestic proposals that I found intriguing were the compassionate address of drug addiction treatment programs, hydrogen car research initiative and the health care reform proposals followed by the urging of the congress to accept legislation that would outlaw human cloning. The three foreign proposals that struck interest in me include the African Caribbean AIDS allocations, the clear and spoken association between the two rival factions of Al'Qeada and Saddam Hussein and continued diplomatic attempts to disarm North Korea.
The historical focus of the war on illegal drugs has been for some time just that a war on drugs. Bush raised eyebrows and possibly impressed many people with his indication of concern and knowledge about the devastating outcomes of use and dependence on illegal drugs by addicts. Focusing on legislation that will allocate several hundred million...
It will be interesting to see if the historical popular beliefs can be refocused
Alternative fuel automobiles have been in the scientific minds eye for nearly 50 years and yet the financial focus of industry and government on not alternative fuels but fossil fuel run cars and trucks has been almost universal. The funding for research associated with hydrogen fuel run cars and even economically sound and practical fully electric cars has been derailed on more than one occasion by a simple lack of funds for research. If tomorrow's driving generation can refocus their ideas of what a car is and if funding holds out it will be impressive.
It was also surprising to hear the Bush outline for the reformation of medical systems to ensure continued and improved access to superior United States medical technology and systems the surprise is not in the focus on medical reform or the…
The final surprise associated with the State of the Union Address is the continued focus on the diplomatic attempts to disarm North Korea, regardless of political opinion that clearly assess a greater threat from North Korea than from Iraq. Bush regards the world and the United States as unblackmailable yet the reality is that the threat does seem to have made a real impact on the results of the world reaction.
The three domestic proposals that I found intriguing were the compassionate address of drug addiction treatment programs, hydrogen car research initiatives and the health care reform proposals. The three foreign proposals that struck interest in me include the African Caribbean AIDS allocations, the clear and spoken association between the two rival factions of Al'Quida and Saddam Hussein and continued diplomatic attempts to disarm North Korea rather than military action. Bush cannot address everything in detail in a short venue yet I seems that the sorts of things that get left out are the real answers to how we will actually accomplish more than half of his proposals. How will we allocate funds for research and new programs in an admittedly challenged economy?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/print/20030128-19.html
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