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

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (264135)	6/15/2002 3:21:52 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Hi Pat, Re: We don't use Iraq's oil now but our oil companies may have their sights on it for the future. Actually, over the past year U.S. imports of Iraqi crude have ranged from 650,000 to 1.2 MM bbl of crude per day. Excepting the month that Saddam turned of the spigot. Iraq is the #2 supplier of imported crude into the U.S. market. It's also important to know that Halliburton traded with Iraq during Dick Cheney's reign as CEO of that firm. Technically, Halliburtion avoided violating sanctions of trade with Iraq by providing phony paperwork that sent the transactions through two foreign subsidiaries. But super-patriot Dick Cheney unequivocally was trading with the enemy. Re: Saddam and Osama - Again, it's vital for the American electorate to wake up to the fact that Saddam represents a modern secular Moslem state, while Osama represents a hyper-religious fundamentalist cult. Sort of like George Bush. Philosophically, there is a bigger chasm between Saddam and Osama than there is between Osama and GWB. -Ray

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (264135)	6/15/2002 3:45:30 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"if you think that military action will stop it just look at Israel's history. No country has struck harder against terrorism than they have and look where it has led? They have more terror attacks than any other country." Exactly the point that no one is making in the mainstream media. This idea is off limits. Try to get a reasoned debate on that subject in the national media ... That one verboten idea makes moot the entire world war approach to terrorism that is the single lynchpin of the Bush Doctrine. To say that "it doesn't work" makes moot the next $2 trillion in extortion, and the last $4 trillion in lost market cap, as well as umpty-trillion in economy losses. Not a good position to be in. True, but a horrible truth. Another horrible truth are the salivating extremists who see votes in such a scenario. "If bombers start showing up in our malls and shopping centers our economy will take a horrid additional hit. It may be time to buy e-tail stocks!!!"