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To: stockman_scott who wrote (52976)	10/18/2002 4:00:21 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

Gosh, that's a good article. And while Bush and company and rightwing complainers crybabied because his speech wasn't aired on primetime commercial television, we find out now it was another devious White House ploy. "So how come last Monday in primetime, when Bush was calling Saddam a "murderous tyrant," the White House did not ask the main networks to clear airtime for his speech? Was that not weird? Turned out that Rove and Co. balked in order to prevent fears that the president was about to push the button. As press secretary Ari Fleischer put it, "The rumour-mongering would have become uncontrollable and it would suggest that war is imminent." Well, isn't it imminent? "