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

To: Ish who wrote (237098)	3/12/2002 9:39:39 PM
From: rich4eagle	Respond to of 769667

Do you want to do this after we lob a few hundred nukes to kick some butt good.

To: Ish who wrote (237098)	3/12/2002 9:42:11 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If you want a better tomorrow, better make sure we don't still have the problems of the past. We have that, in spades. The military-industrial complex is gaining power and influence, including political and economic influence, at a startling rate, unforseen even by Eishenhower, imo. If you think that the intel services have inordinant control of the national media, you then have to worry about sunshine laws in politics, otherwise it's a totalitarian situation, with the current admininstration able to accomplish anything, without involving or informing the voter. I.e., spending hundreds of billions in emergency war funds, establishing an underground government, passing close-to-martial laws without Congressional review, hiding past indescretions under the bogus cloak of "national security", etc. etc. Add to that petro-deals both overt and covert around the world under the threat of American military force. Follow the money. To do that requires a complete paper trail back to the executive branch, corporation executives and foreign diplomats involved. If everything were peachy keen, we would still need auditability, full accountability, and full record-keeping of all actions, all the time. Otherwise we don't have a government, we have a dictatorship by another name. By "peachy keen" I mean, well, no terrorist war maybe? No obvious conflicts of interest with the administration and oil-producing countries that support terrorists, maybe? And how about, perhaps, and economy that isn't being trashed by lack of confidence in ... record-keeping !!! No, the only thing that will restore confidence is full, complete disclosure, on every public leader and company, and foreign nationals who operate behind the Beltway to suck this country dry and corrupt our political process, as we speak.