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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 5:32:27 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Dear Raymond: You Ivy League Liberals just dont GET IT. Its President Bush's little slip ups that endear him to the American People. He talks like the rest of us do. We dont need some glib talking CROOK just an honest God fearing guy that can speak our language. JDN ps: If you lived in Texas you wouldnt consider Mexico "foreign" either. Did you know NEW MEXICO is part of USA? Lot of people in the NorthEast didnt know that.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 8:38:40 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ray, A quick question for you! Who was the Attorney General that got a report last August that was titled..."Director's Report on Terrorism."? At the time this same Attorney General turned down a proposal for a budget funding incease of $58 million and this was done despite the report telling him that the Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network had not been effectively penetrated and that this same network of individuals was the most dangerous terrorist threat facing the United States of America. Also, just as this report was being issued to one and the same Attorney General, he was told by two field offices about the possibility of a terrorist attack. Let me give you a few hints as to who this Attorney General is and let me start with the fact that this person was the AG during the most devastating attack on America's homeland since Pearl Harbor(even though it wasn't a state at the time)and he said they had no way of knowing about this attack coming from any terrorist organization. He is the same AG that in cohorts with a fellow known as Shrub, is telling the American public that it is UnAmerican to question what he is doing and that he is unleashing his minions of troops to pry into anything they want to, without any impunity to his operation. And don't forget, even if this AG hadn't been on Fantasy Island with his desire to waste our money on buying a drape to cover up a statue(means made of stone or some other inanimate substance) that showed a woman's breast, he would still be telling the American public that he had no clue we were going to be attacked by suicide planes...even though Tatu was standing beside him there on Fantasy Island well before September 11th...shouting.."It's da planes! It's da planes, Mr. Attorney General." As for the turned down $58million, this is now an Attorney General that is spending money like a drunken sailor in a whore house after he had been stranded alone for six months on Fantasy Island, trying to shore up a problem that he ignored before 9-11...and we again shouldn't question his actions as to do so would be unAmerican. Damn! Why did a single dead man have to beat this now Attorney General, when if he had won his Senate race maybe nearly 3,000 American wouldn't have died on September 11 as we wouldn't have a person more concerned with a drape for a statue...as opposed to terrorist organizations. Any clue who this Attorney General might be?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 9:01:23 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Ray, Read the following and then I have a question... "European Union ratifies Kyoto treaty UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a big boost to the global fight against climate change, the 15 nations in the European Union formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on Friday and urged the United States to end its opposition to the treaty. The European Union has been in the forefront of the campaign to cut pollution that is warming the planet and the simultaneous ratifications by its members represented a major step toward the treaty's entry into force. The ceremony also highlighted the Bush administration's isolation as the only announced opponent of the 1997 accord. One by one, envoys from the 15 EU members presented the documents of ratification from their governments to U.N. legal adviser Hans Corell in the main press room at U.N. headquarters. EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom, who handed over a separate ratification from the organization itself, hailed the "historic moment for global efforts to combat climate change" and pointedly singled out the United States as the only country to reject the treaty. To take effect, the Kyoto accord must be ratified by 55 countries, but the ratifications must also include industrialized nations responsible for at least 55% of the 1990 levels of greenhouse gases blamed for heating up the atmosphere. The EU boosted the number of ratifications to about 70, topping the minimum needed, and pushed the treaty about halfway to the goal of 55% of the greenhouse gas pollution levels for it to enter into force. The EU, whose members produced 24.2% of emissions in 1990, represented the first major industrialized bloc to ratify the treaty. Before Friday, the vast majority of countries that had ratified were developing countries. The Kyoto Protocol was signed by the Clinton administration, but never ratified by the U.S. Senate. President Bush backed out of it last year, saying it would have cost the U.S. economy $400 billion and 4.9 million jobs. "The European Union urges the United States to reconsider its position and to return to and participate in the global framework for addressing climate change that this protocol provides," Wallstrom said." My question is that if not signing the Kyoto Accord because it would cost the U.S. economy $400 billion and 4.9 million jobs, why did Shrub waste taxpayers money buying back the off shore leases in Florida and are your telling me that potential jobs were gained with this action via Shrub and Little Bro...We aren't talking politics and hypocrisy, are we!

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 10:32:41 AM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Geez! When Mr. Capitalism himself starts questioning Shrub, hasn't he heard the message..."It's unAmerican to question what Shrub, Lord Cheney and Non-Dancing John are doing to protect our country from terrorist?" Dang it, now even non-left wing loonies are beginning to question Shrub and Gang,so I guess its now time to release more alerts. Boy, you fellows and girls here on SI are going to have your hands full....attacking your own crowd and still blaming everything on Clinton and a full-moon rising. Lou Dobbs: "This administration is starting to sound much different than six months ago, when their notes were truer... and their messages far more determined. We've watched the President go on the defensive, after the revelations that the White House knew of terrorist threats against this country last summer. We've learned that the FBI is still more a bureaucracy than a fighting organization... filled with good and dedicated people, but so very poorly led and supported. Then the announced reforms of the FBI... far more PR than reality, and pathetically late even at that. And the PR warnings... look out for terrorist scuba divers, look out for terrorists armed with shoulder-fired missiles. And the head of the FBI saying there will inevitably be successful terrorists acts. Fatalism is not an admirable quality in those upon whom we depend for our national security. I have no good news for the administration... Congress is back in session Monday... and hearings into what the administration knew and did about terrorist threats will be underway in a matter of weeks. An administration that has refused to answer questions about meetings with Enron executives and which has refused to disclose the names and dates of those who advised the Cheney Energy Task Force could well be tempted to resist openness in responding. I hope not. It's time for this administration to return to the moral clarity that it achieved following the attacks of September 11th, to shed fatalism and restore resolve. There's no role for PR... only the leadership the American people have come to expect. To borrow a phrase from Winston Churchill: we are still masters of our fate. "

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 10:44:54 AM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well, Andrew Jackson couldn't even read (his wife taught him to read) but he's one of America's very greatest Presidents, IMO. But then again he had plenty of well working stuff between the ears.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (260253)	6/1/2002 1:50:12 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Geez! An Asst. Att. General knows but the FBI Director doesn't know, the Attorney General doesn't know, and the President doesn't know.....and should we forget that Gore got 500,000 more votes than Shrub.....and we end of with the famous monkey...the one that sees no evil, hears no evil, but loves the oil industry. "MANY SIGNS POINTED TO ATTACK On Friday, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff cited nearly a decade’s worth of hints that foreign terrorists were targeting Americans. He did not say that the United States had specific information that could have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks. On Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller said there may have been missed clues before the attacks and suggested that investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more diligent about pursuing leads. Among the warning signs cited by Chertoff: the bombing of the trade center in 1993; a mid-1990s plan in which an Islamic radical was convicted of plotting to blow up jetliners, New York landmarks and assassinate the pope and fly a small plane into a government building; a death sentence pronounced on Americans by Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s; and the failed millennium bombing plot at Los Angeles International Airport. “As of Sept. 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on Sept. 11th,” Chertoff said during a commencement speech to Seton Hall Law School graduates. “We knew the World Trade Center was a target,” said Chertoff, who was the U.S. attorney for New Jersey when the trade center was attacked in 1993. “We knew an airplane could be used as a weapon.” He said he was not criticizing the country’s preparedness, but wanted to help better prepare for coming security challenges. And like other top administration officials, Chertoff said the nation will never be “100 percent safe.” “It is never going to happen,” he said. “Every bridge, every mall is not going to be 100 percent guarded. Although we must work to achieve perfect security, we can only approach it, not attain it.” But wait a minute...this Asst. Attorney General admits that it was known that they(terrorist) could you a plane as a weapon, but what did Condo Rice tell us only a few short days ago......GeeZ! Can't Shrub's crew get their story together? Condo...didn't know that planes might be used as weapons and now an Asst. Att. General saying they knew....boy, sleeping is going to be so easy tonight....NOT!