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

To: jttmab who wrote (302289)	9/30/2002 12:50:10 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

It hilarious watching the enviro-whacko, anti-human, anti-American left trying to minimize stolen nuclear material because it's in the hands of America's enemies...

To: jttmab who wrote (302289)	9/30/2002 1:16:19 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Paying attention to details.. Turk Nuke Fuel Bust Just One of Several Recently. When Turkish police seized a little more than a quarter pound of suspected weapons grade uranium from smugglers caught near the Iraqi border on Friday, it was far from the first time they'd busted deadly nuke fuel traffickers traveling through the country looking for the highest bidder. In fact, less than two months after the 9/11 attacks, paramilitary police in Istanbul seized about a kilogram (2.2 lbs.) of weapons-grade uranium and detained two Turks who attempted to sell the substance to undercover agents, a Turkish security official told Agence France Press. Other reports estimated that the November 6 weapons grade uranium bust yielded as much a 3.5 lbs. of the deadly substance. "Police have often seized illicit substances, including nuclear materials, in Istanbul," the French news agency noted, calling the Turkish city "a hub of criminal activity located at the meeting point between Asia and Europe." Smuggling of uranium and other contraband has increased since the end of the Cold War, as tens of thousand of people from former Communist countries flock to Istanbul to deal in the so-called "suitcase trade." Turkish police have even uncovered "smuggling rings" that specialize in trafficking in radioactive substances, successfully breaking up one such operation just a month before the 9/11 attacks. Six Turks were arrested for trafficking in nuclear material in the August 2001 bust. In early Sept. the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British defense think tank, issued a report predicting that Saddam Hussein could produce a workable nuclear weapon within months if he could "obtain fissile material from abroad, steal it or buy it in some way." newsmax.com

To: jttmab who wrote (302289)	10/1/2002 2:44:57 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "Brilliant. How stupid is this guy?" <G>. Maybe we should turn to Ted Turner for further financing of the project to secure fissile materials.... You are correct - it's hard to explain how this administration couldn't, or wouldn't, scrape up a couple 'a million to continue funding the security project.

To: jttmab who wrote (302289)	10/1/2002 3:21:59 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: Then George W. Bush came along and cancelled the program to save a few million. Brilliant. How stupid is this guy? Time to face facts here, jttmab. The best way to analyze this is to do a classic cui bono? (who benefits?) study of the situation. Now, you suggest that it is dumb for Dubya to have curtailed our funding of the controls on the FSU fissile materials and scientists. I say it was brilliant. Why? Because if you are a desperado trying to justify a $50 Billion per annum increase in insane budgets for war toys, you really gotta have an enemy. Right? Am I right about this? We need enemies. The damn Ruskies fell down on the job and that's too bad. It took our PNAC "thinkers" Message 18051067 some time to come up with a suitable paranoid sham, but they've managed to do alright since last September, all in all. We've got anthraxed and intimidated Democratic leader in the Capital, we've got cower passengers on commercial flights: nytimes.com (perpetrated by the inscrutable TSA, which is suppressing all investigations of the flights on 9/11, BTW.) we've got random arrests of unsuspecting citizens: govexec.com we've got teddy bear bomb scares on St. Valentine's day: cnn.com we got 700 Homeland Security forces surrounding three unarmed medical students in Florida. We got orange warning days and yellow warning days and magenta warning days......... Anyway, you get the idea. We have a mal-Administration that is hellbent of terrorizing the populace to the greatest extent possible in order to extort the greatest amount of money possible for their devious rackets. Did I mention that a fellow named David Frasca was an FBI supervisor who suppressed investigations into Islamic fundamentalists by Colleen Rowley in Minneapolis and an Agent Wright in Phoenix and got a promotion and a raise shortly after 9/11. Apparently for a job well done. Does this American Empire seem curiouser and curiouser day by day? Bush dumb? Hardly. No one could be dumb and get away with throwing an extra $100 Billion to his bribers in times like these. Bush is brilliant. Peace Now, Ray