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

To: MSI who wrote (257791)	5/22/2002 10:11:22 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

OIL ON MY MIND, or HOW CHENEY PLANS TO MAKE HIS BILLIONS Hi MSI, I seem to have hit some sort of a jackpot of scintillating reporting this afternoon. None of it making the Bush team look like anything other than self-dealing liars. Here's a sampler: Cheney engaged in dubious accounting tricks, ala Enron, while he was CEO at Halliburton, hiding costs from the public for over a year: nytimes.com ********************************************** On the Afghan front, I did not know until this afternoon that the country's interim "leader", Hamid Karzai, is a former employee of Unocal, and that the military bases we've established in the region precisely line up with the previously planned pipelines from the 'Stans to the Indian Ocean: afgha.com ******************************************** There was abundant warning of imminent attack in the weeks prior to Sept. 11: mediamonitors.net Mossad tried to warn US: gordonthomas.ie ******************************************** Even a staid publication like Business Week is calling the Bush team "Orwellian": Three favorite ways to avoid having to confront a serious issue are truly Orwellian: Deny a charge that was never actually made, accuse your critics of partisanship or even disloyalty, and change the subject. These days, the spin machine is working overtime. businessweek.com ************************************************** I'm beginning to believe the Bush team is their own worst enemy. They are digging themselves into a deep hole, from which they'll never be able to extract themselves with a shred of belief among most Americans as to their integrity, honesty or true patriotic intent. -Ray