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To: Bilow who wrote (17562)	1/29/2002 11:55:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 281500

WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO HIDE? Hi Carl, In the wake of the GAO request for information from the Administration on how badly Kenny Boy Lay was greasing Tricky Dick Cheney's palm for a sweetheart national energy ripoff policy, one would think the Administration would show a bit of humility about the appearance of misconduct. Wrong. Instead what we now get is a disclosure of another order of magnitude of cover-up being proposed by the Bushistas. They want to cover-up the entire intelligence apparatus of the U.S. in the run-up to 9/11. What hubris! What in the world do they have to hide? cnn.com This is getting curiouser and curiouser..... President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN. The request was made at a private meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday morning. Sources said Bush initiated the conversation. He asked that only the House and Senate intelligence committees look into the potential breakdowns among federal agencies that could have allowed the terrorist attacks to occur, rather than a broader inquiry that some lawmakers have proposed, the sources said Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call to Daschle from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same request. "The vice president expressed the concern that a review of what happened on September 11 would take resources and personnel away from the effort in the war on terrorism, " Daschle told reporters. I can't believe I'm seeing this with my own eyes. What unmitigated gall and hubris! While el Presidente Gigante is asking us to spend untold billions on National Missile Defense and Homeland Security (bring on the SS, boys) he can't spend a dime to figure out why our intelligence systems failed? What's he trying to cover up? Incompetence, or worse? -Ray

To: Bilow who wrote (17562)	1/30/2002 12:20:32 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

Boy, that was a great post!

To: Bilow who wrote (17562)	1/30/2002 10:08:30 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Extraordinary Popular Delusions, and treasure it. Agreed. I think that it may form the basis for a lot of Soros' ideas about reflexivity. They want to come to the US, and the vast majority want to come here for no reason other than so that they can eat crappy food at McDonalds, buy cheap goods at Walmart, work at the local equivalent of Nike sweat shops, and live in identical, mass manufactured ticky-tacky housing. Wrong, though a good guess. They come here for the same reason our ancestors came-in search of opportunity in a free country as well as for the prospect of a better future for their families. A place where a grandchild has a realistic chance of becoming a doctor, lawyer, bank president, etc., instead of simply another peasant. Enduring the McDonald's, sweat shops, ticky tacky housing, and so forth, is simply the price of admission. People who come from places where any kind of meal is a gift are not too delicate about what or where they eat. Given the choice, however, they'd rather go to a tasty taco shop where the tacos are made just like at home instead of to the local multi-national provider of junk food garbage.