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

To: rich4eagle who wrote (218669)	1/15/2002 12:51:59 AM
From: JEB	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Ahhhh, so this whole thing is the Democrats declaring war on the President for going against Senator Daschle.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (218669)	1/15/2002 12:54:46 AM
From: FastC6	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Your class warfare rhetoric is tiresome and untruthful...go away ignorant shit. . .

To: rich4eagle who wrote (218669)	1/15/2002 1:25:14 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Don’t forget about THIS gem, in all of the Enron hooplah: Moscow Times global eye -- Tomb Raiders By Chris Floyd January 12, 2002 It was the night after Christmas on Florida's eastern shore. A tepid rain was falling as a couple of county lawmen pushed up the garage door at a ranch house on Sugar Pine Drive, just outside Boca Raton. They stood back for a minute to let the fumes spill out, a few remaining shreds of the poison cloud that had done its work hours ago. The car was no longer running. Behind the wheel -- just as they'd expected after getting the wife's frantic phone call half an hour before -- was the body of Peter K. Hartmann, regional manager for Service Corporation International, or SCI. "The funeral guy," said one of the deputies, then went to call for the meat wagon. SCI, based in Houston, is one of a handful of international corporations that have gobbled up the funeral industry in recent years, squeezing out independent operators in hardball takeovers. It's been a sweet deal for the Texas boys: the only business in the world with a guaranteed, never-ending supply of "customers."… The company had been all over the local news recently: It had just been hit with a big lawsuit, accusing it of "recycling" bodies in several Jewish cemeteries it owned in the Palm Beach area -- cramming new cadavers into existing graves, or digging up the dead and tossing their bones and tattered burial shrouds into the woods nearby. A few outraged mourners brought the initial suit, but there were hundreds more getting ready to join it. The funny thing was, Hartmann had not been directly implicated in the scandal… Just a few weeks before, SCI had settled a potentially explosive lawsuit that could have meant major trouble for the company and its co-defendant -- a certain George W. Bush. That case began in 1998, with the Texas State Funeral Commission investigating some "shortcuts" used by the company to maximize profits. Grieving families had reported noxious fluids leaking from their loved ones' crypts; word was that SCI was using unlicensed embalmers to churn out corpses on the cheap… [It’s a real old fashioned mystery. Be sure to click through and read the entire article.—Caro]

To: rich4eagle who wrote (218669)	1/15/2002 1:29:27 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769670

RESPONSE TO TERROR Saudi-Backed Web Supports Terrorism, Book Asserts France: 'Forbidden Truth' details kingdom's role in funding Bin Laden and contends geopolitical concerns have influenced U.S. policy. By SEBASTIAN ROTELLA, TIMES STAFF WRITER PARIS -- An unlikely bestseller has emerged lately in France, dueling head to head with the memoirs of the president's wife, a biography of Victor Hugo and a philosophical treatise on good and evil… The book asserts that Saudi Arabia has played as big a role in the spread of Islamic terrorism as has Afghanistan. But according to the authors, geopolitical concerns--chiefly oil--have led U.S. and European governments to go soft on Saudi rulers and even prompted the Bush administration to negotiate secretly with the Taliban before Sept. 11… As debate about American policy toward Saudi Arabia has grown in the United States, a Texas congressman has called for an investigation of "The Forbidden Truth's" account of the Saudi connection and of alleged Bush administration attempts to secure control of Caspian Sea oil and to persuade the Taliban to surrender Bin Laden. "Until the enemy is defined and understood, it cannot be accurately targeted or vanquished," Republican Rep. Ron Paul said in a speech on the House floor in November. ". . . The charges made by these authors deserve close scrutiny."… [If you haven’t read the What Did They Know and When Did They Know It page, it’s time you did. If you read the page once, keep up with new additions by visiting the Latest Additions page.—Caro] News.com, Australia Bin Laden book banned From AFP 31dec01 A FRENCH book about Osama bin Laden, called The Forbidden Truth, had been banned in Switzerland at the request of one of bin Laden's half brothers, Yeslam Binladin, his lawyer, Jurg Brand, said. Binladin is claiming 20 million Swiss francs ($23.73 million) in damages for defamation from the co-authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, and the publishers of the book, Guy Birenbaum and Olivier Rubinstein of Denoel publishing house. He claims the book falsely says he was closely linked to the man blamed by the United States for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The German translation of the book, which was due to be published in Switzerland in the next few days, has also been banned. Binladin has lived in Switzerland for about 20 years and has held a Swiss passport for nearly a year. Brand said further legal action was planned in Switzerland. A complaint has also been lodged against the French website www.intelligenceonline.fr for promoting the book. The disputed book's co-author, Dasquie, is the editor in chief of the website. Binladin says he has not had any contact with his half brother for a number of years. People of Texas be Damned Dept. Guardian Unlimited, U.K. Bush Puts Papers In Private Library Monday January 14, 2002 2:20 AM AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - When most Texas governors leave office, they send their documents to the state archives or the state's largest universities, where the public is free to view them. But President George W. Bush, who served as governor from 1995 to 2000, chose to house his records in his father's George Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University, which is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration and not subject to the state's open records law. The Texas Public Information Act requires that most documents be produced within 10 days of a request, but the presidential library is not equipped to do that since it also is handling presidential material, said Edward Seidenberg, deputy director of the state library and archives commission. The presidential library will attempt to be responsive, but cannot guarantee it will meet the state requirement, said Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the National Archives and Records Administration… The situation frustrates Tom Smith, Texas director of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group. ``These papers belong to the people of the state of Texas, not to George W. Bush,'' Smith said. ``He can't hide them or give them away, and putting them in his daddy's library doesn't change that one bit.'' [Bush's attorney, Terri] Lacy said she did not know why Bush chose the presidential library for his records, but insisted he is ``absolutely not'' trying to hide them… [Can there be any doubt that they think we’re stupid?—Caro] CC