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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (185429)	9/22/2001 2:22:26 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

All Bush and The SEC has to do is limit or stop lending thus halting shorting and the market will go up. That is exactly what happen Friday when GE announces favarable predictions. If the agencies would mere just stop the shorting or restrict it the market will rise if nothing welse but short covering.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (185429)	9/22/2001 2:23:11 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769670

September 22, 2001 Feds go MIA Painfully pathetic Canadian 'leadership' all too apparent By RICK BELL -- Calgary Sun Our government is MIA. Missing in action. That's why President George Bush didn't mention us in his speech to the world. Our painfully pathetic leaders content themselves with hiding behind the skirts of the Americans, wringing their hands, tap-dancing over what to do, playing namby-pamby politics while our greatest friend is brutalized by the world's worst scum. And now we want thanks? Yes, it is true individual Canadians have come to the fore and have helped America in this horrible hour, but our gaggle of gutless politicians have given this country the worst of names. Chretien and his cronies are an embarrassment to the Free World. By the way, where the hell is Jean Chretien? Oh, he's at a mosque making sure the Muslims are pacified. Can we take a break from these love-ins and think of the real victims and do our part to get after the killers? Of course, that would involve guts, something in short supply in Ottawa. No, Chretien is sending out flunkies to tell us being left out of Bush's speech is "an indication our support goes without saying." Crap. He's getting his defensive Defence Minister Art Eggleton to say we MIGHT commit our army to the war effort but we're ... boohoo ... stretched thin. Besides, says the increasingly irritating Eggleton, Bush "knows we are on board." Crap. He's finally consenting to speak to the press and says nothing. "There is no problem," is the PM's putrid patter. Crap. Chretien is like your so-called buddy who hides out in the bathroom until you've had the living daylights beaten out of you and then comes out and says: "Oh, if only I'd known." Why the hell is the PM not in New York at the World Trade Center, like many a self-respecting leader of nations. Canadians were murdered there, and where is our prime minister? Why the hell did he not make his way to Washington? They can come to the U.S. capital from the-other-side-of-the-world Indonesia, but not Ottawa, just a short hop away. Jean the Joke STILL doesn't get it. Why has Canada not committed to a full-scale tightening of our internal security? Why have we brushed off our American allies who are trying to work with us? Why does King Abdullah of Jordan have to tell us he informed our government about links in Canada to Osama bin Laden but nobody on our side knows anything? Why does Immigration Minister Elinor Caplan sniffle about "trial by innuendo" when challenged about the fact we released somebody on a refugee claim who was picked up for having a fake passport, and now this guy is being investigated for being linked to the hijackers? Where IS our fearless leader? Listen to real leaders. Australia's John Howard: "There is no point in a situation like this being an 80 per cent ally." Britain's Tony Blair: "This is a struggle that concerns us all. I give you, on behalf of our country, our solidarity, our sympathy and our support." Full stop, no questions asked. Now THAT'S a true friend. Japan's Junichiro Koizumi: "Japan's determination will remain unshakable. We will determinedly extend our support for Bush in our maximum capacity." And this is the country that bombed Pearl Harbor! No, we are treated to the sickening spectacle of a prime minister who is plainly lost when we need leadership most. Gallant Canadians spilled blood and lost lives on a thousand battlefields and kept the peace on scores more. Canada once was renowned for being the first to answer the call. No longer. We have a government so bereft of a moral compass they cannot make the most basic decision to stand with all its collective strength to fight terror. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Let me conclude with just one comment Chretien's office received yesterday from a "confused Canadian." "President Bush made it very clear we are either with them, or we are with the terrorists. As Canada's representative, where do we stand?" You have to answer the question before you get in the speech.