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

To: American Spirit who wrote (249431)	4/19/2002 11:15:56 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

anwr.org yep...those caribou look just about extinct!! LOL

To: American Spirit who wrote (249431)	4/19/2002 11:47:05 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769670

Now it is time to torpedo the rest of the Cheney/Bush "energy plan", also known as the repayment of favors who funded their campaign. From the current Sierra magazine... "When confronted by accusations that energy companies like Enron unduly influenced the Bush administrations energy policy, the White House PR machine tried to hide behind the nearest environmentalist: "The President thinks that access should be across the board, and that's why the Sierra Club....met repeatedly with the energy task force." -White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer, January 22, 2002 In fact, Sierra Club representatives never met with the energy task force while it was crafting it's industry-friendly plan. (We did meet twice with Bush administration officials from the group-AFTER THE PLAN WAS RELEASED.) Vice President Cheney and his staff met six times with Enron officials, including then-CEO Kenneth Lay, WHILE THE PLAN WAS BEING DRAFTED." (my emphasis) Funny that the "liberal" media didn't bother to check out the White House claim that they were trying to be open to environmentalists while drafting the plan. They are nothing more lately than an extension of the White House PR machine, probably as an overreaction to the charges that they have a liberal bias. Del

To: American Spirit who wrote (249431)	4/19/2002 11:49:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BUZZZZZ! WRONG! AS USUAL! ANWR (as it's properly known) will be back. U.S. suspects Saudi pact with Saddam Promise to bar American military, equipment worth $5.6 billion rotting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 19, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell came away with no illusions on where Saudi Arabia stands in the U.S. battle against terror after his talks in Morocco last week with the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah. Washington finally realizes that Saudi Arabia has no intention of choking off Saudi donations to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers or silencing support in its official media for the terrorist attacks. The United States also now suspects that Abdullah and Saddam Hussein are in cahoots and that the Iraqi leader recently gave secret guarantees to the prince that Baghdad would not attack Saudi Arabia or its oil fields as long as the kingdom banned all U.S. military action, including command and control activities, against Iraq. DEBKAfile's military sources reveal one astonishing result of the secret Abdullah-Saddam agreement. Not only did Saudi Arabia force an accelerated U.S. evacuation of the Prince Sultan air base and a halt to U.S. operations there, but it also brought out state-of-the-art American equipment from underground buildings at the key facility and dumped it in large crates in the desert to bake under a scorching sun. Saudi Arabia's aim was to show Iraq or any spy planes in the area that the equipment was now out of U.S. reach and that Saudi forces had no intention of using it themselves. As a result, some of the world's most sophisticated electronic gear, worth $5.6 billion, is now rotting away like tomatoes in a steaming Arab souk. DEBKAfile's military sources say the cessation of activities in the Sultan command and control center has slashed the Saudi air force's operational capabilities by more than 50 percent. Each Saudi air base now operates independently, with no central brain to guide them. Senior Saudi air force commanders recently told U.S. officers they had raised the issue with Abdullah. He replied that at this stage in Middle East and Gulf events, the kingdom's security was best served through understandings with its neighbors, rather than by a U.S. command and control center at the Sultan base. Abdullah pledged that as time went by he would budget the necessary funds to build a new center. The crown prince said nothing when the officers replied there was no need for a new facility when quite simply the crates could be opened and the gear reactivated. DEBKAfile's Gulf sources believe Abdullah fears the United States could gain remote access to the equipment if it is switched on. He believes that U.S. control and surveillance networks in Oman and Kuwait, and now also in Qatar, as well as those aboard U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf, could access information in the system and track Saudi air force activity. For all these reasons, Abdullah's official visit to George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch on April 25 is likely to be one of the most important and decisive events of his presidency. The crown prince's decision to shut Sultan air base to U.S. forces -- and the manner in which the evacuation was carried out -- marked the first time in Saudi Arabian history that it assumed sole responsibility for its own security. Riyadh appears to have discarded the U.S. umbrella that protected the kingdom, its oil fields and the royal family for more than 60 years. The Crawford summit will have to address five of the most sensitive questions in contemporaneous U.S.-Saudi relations: What happens to the U.S. nuclear umbrella over Saudi Arabia as the kingdom continues to march along the new security line it has drawn in the sand? Will Saudi Arabia want to take its chances in the stormy and volatile region? Will an angry United States fold up the umbrella in high dudgeon? Will the United States remain committed to the security and defense of Saudi Arabia's oil fields and pipelines? To what extent will the United States stay true to its pledge to protect the House of Saud from external or internal threat? How far will Saudi Arabia go to take action against al-Qaida terrorists who have found shelter in the kingdom and have been operating there since March? Under what conditions and to what degree would Saudi Arabia join, or reject, an oil embargo? Saudi Arabia, and Abdullah in his talks with Powell, promised to not be a party to an embargo. But DEBKAfile's sources in the Gulf doubt the Saudis will stand up to pressure from Iraq, Iran, the Palestinians and Venezuela to declare at least a one-month oil embargo. Chances are good that in the next 10 to 14 days, when Israel launches another major retaliation for a Palestinian terror attack, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela will declare a 30-day oil embargo. Should Israel hold off, Saudi Arabia would in turn be able to postpone its declaration of an embargo until after the Bush-Abdullah talks. Message 17357577