Moreover, they are full of hope that, like President Reagan's "evil empire" speech, President Bush's "axis of evil" speech will eventually lead to the collapse of Kim Jong Il's brutal regime.
Even though Mikhail Gorbachev pushed glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union, what President Reagan had called the Evil Empire still loomed over Europe.
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In the past, former President Regan called Russia the 'Evil Empire, ' but still pursued a dialogue with Moscow.
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But why transfer nuclear knowledge to a country that has more than earned its place in President George Bush's axis of evil, ask critics.
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President Bush sees world terrorism for the evil that it is.
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"The notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them -- which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration -- is ridiculous, " he said, going on to acknowledge that even when President Reagan called the Soviet Union the "evil empire, " he continued to talk to that nation's leaders.
This is the country President Bush once called part of the axis of evil.
President Bush states the case starkly: Terrorism is evil.
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In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George Bush used the term "Axis of Evil" to describe the regimes of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, saying that all three countries were sponsoring terror and pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
The massive implosion at the Yongbyon facility was intended to be a powerful public symbol of a move to end nuclear activities by the Communist nation once branded a member of an "axis of evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush.
In 1980 the rise of Solidarity--a mass movement led by a shipyard electrician, Lech Walesa (later, free Poland's first president)--posed a mortal threat to the Evil Empire.
But I suspect it is because the new government of President John Atta Mills appears to be predisposed to see evil and corruption in everything the previous government has done.
Analysts say Iran is partly motivated by a concern for its own security after U.S. President George Bush called it part of an access of evil and invaded fellow member Iraq.
The findings come at a time of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, which President Bush has labeled part of an "axis of evil, " along with Iraq and North Korea.
Syria was described by ex-US President George W Bush as part of the "axis of evil".
This is the same Iran that President Bush once dubbed as part of "an axis of evil" that included Iraq and North Korea.
This led him to be vilified by the unforgiving majority of Red Sox fans, while the fire was further stoked by Boston president Larry Lucchino, who dubbed the Yankees as "the evil empire" in 2002.
The Chairman of the House International Relations Committee has called on President Bush to disrupt the possible formation of an Axis of Evil in the Western Hemisphere, and to support the ouster of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez.
Washington has played along, despite President Bush's earlier pledge to disarm this "axis of evil" member, unilaterally if necessary.
Mr. DANISZEWSKI: Well, already in January, President Bush had said that Iraq was part of an axis of evil.
In short, if President Bush didn't mean to denounce the "axis of evil, " he would have been better off not to say it.
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"Our job now is to find the evil ones and bring them to justice, " the president said during the first meeting of his homeland security team.
Things got worse when American President George Bush named North Korea as part of the 'axis of evil', along with other states which the US believes has weapons of mass destruction, and the South Korean Government got the blame for what its American ally had said.
So when Evil Moskowitz, as she was dubbed, ran for Manhattan borough president in 2005, the UFT campaigned hard for her opponent, Scott Stringer, who won.
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The President of Uganda was General Idi Amin Dada, a man whose name is today synonymous with evil.
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It was of course the steadfastness of the president, the pope, and the prime minister which brought down that wall and destroyed the evil empire without a shot being fired.
Since 2002, when President George W Bush famously named Iran as one of the countries that formed the "axis of evil", his administration had insisted that no face-to-face talks would be held unless Iran suspended the enrichment of uranium, which it says could be used to produce nuclear weapons.
He knows that a victorious President Bush will be even more gung ho on working his way down the laundry list of the Axis of Evil nations to be cleaned up.
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