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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (240985)	3/22/2002 3:37:25 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I guess we just always get bad people who are only there to make money in the White house.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (240985)	3/22/2002 7:11:34 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Them too. I'm not a supporter of any profiteering. I'm not a Democrat, either. I haven't seen any stories on selling national secrets to China, but if there are any that are true, they should be investigated and prosecuted, with the same vigor as Carlyle Group profiteering, and meetings with bin Laden and Taliban in Texas, etc.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (240985)	3/22/2002 7:55:42 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Yeah, that dastardly Clinton,Inc. Can you find a link to a fine or some indictment or refresh my memory on the quid pro quo here? I'd appreciate it. By the way, did you know that Halliburton was fined by the Justice Dept for violating the sanctions against Libya by selling them equipment necessary to make nuclear weapons? My, my. Who was the CEO at the time?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (240985)	3/23/2002 10:27:40 PM
From: RON BL	Respond to of 769667

LaPierre: Airport Guards 'Wand-Raping' Female Flyers National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre complained to a recent C-PAC gathering that airport security guards, who are forbidden from using racial profiling to pat down obvious terrorist suspects, are instead sexually abusing innocent female passengers with intrusive body searches and "wand-rapes." "You see red-faced, teary-eyed 15-year-old girls enduring security wands orbiting their breasts while electronic squeals detect the metal in their underwire bras," LaPierre told the crowd. "You see grandmothers shaken down and stripped of their cuticle clippers and knitting needles," he said. "You see grandfathers, men who likely fought or lost loved ones for this country, in various stages of undress. You see women cringe as security men let their wands linger between their legs. "I guess it's okay to wand-rape someone's daughter in public, but no profiling," LaPierre observed. "No, we don't want to risk offending an Islamic ex-con with two aliases and no job, paying cash for a one-way airline ticket with no luggage, whose shoes are packed with plastic explosives," the NRA chief railed. "Who're we fooling? Terrorists fit into fairly narrow categories of gender, age, nationality and religion." LaPierre's speech, excerpted Friday by the Washington Post's Al Kamen, also singled out the Bush administration for letting the airport profiling-ban charade continue. "I have great respect for this administration. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with confiscating nail clippers from grandmothers and poking magnetic wands up skirts. "No one is any safer and we know it," he continued. "But everyone is delayed, defiled and demeaned. And when it doesn't work, where will it stop? When we're all naked? Boarding planes in airline-issued hospital smocks?" In another slap at the White House, which backs the recently passed amnesty bill for illegal aliens, LaPierre complained, "I say, if anyone's going to lose freedoms, make it the illegal aliens. Not my mother, your daughter, our pilots or war heroes. "If anyone deserves a little extra scrutiny after September 11, it ought to be a few million illegal aliens," the NRA chief insisted.