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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Enigma who wrote (17813)	12/15/2002 12:14:29 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 93284

Looks like Bush wants back the ball his dad gave away. I always believed it strange the behavior of the bully. >>>The 1994 Senate report found that the United States had licensed dozens of companies to export various materials that helped Iraq make mustard gas, VX nerve agent, anthrax and other biological and chemical weapons. The report also said "the same micro-organisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found and recovered from the Iraqi biological warfare program.? <http://www.truthout.org/imgs.site_01/2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gif> Shipments to Iraq continued even after the United States learned Hussein had used chemical weapons against Iranian troops and Kurdish villagers in northern Iraq in 1988, according to Senate investigators. <http://www.truthout.org/imgs.site_01/2.ClrSpc.indent_2.gif> The U.S.-Iraqi relationship flourished from February 1986, when then-Vice President George Bush met with Iraq's ambassador to Washington, Nizar Hamdoon, and assured him that Baghdad would be permitted to receive more sophisticated U.S. technology, until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Over that four-year period, the Reagan and Bush administrations approved licenses for the export of more than $600 million worth of advanced American technology to Iraq, according to congressional reports.<<< truthout.org

To: Enigma who wrote (17813)	12/15/2002 1:50:46 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 93284

"What do you think of the War on Terrorism?", a question to Fran Liebowitz in NY a few months after 9/11 Answer:"It's a TV show." True. Complete with logo, story arc, music and selected talking heads with selected stories-of-the-day. The "news" is faster with greater top editorial control and executive branch Carl Rove influence (if you don't play ball you're booted from coveted White House or Pentagon coverage), to the extent that these days the stories are provided by the people being covered. Press releases are issued so thick and fast that basically news coverage is regurgitation of sections of press releases. There are a few exceptions -- UPI's Pentagon correspondent Pamela Hess says there are. I can believe her. She also says there are "so many illegal things going on there just isn't time to cover them all". She also said there is so much "news" volume that "the only way anything can make even the slightest difference is if everyone piles on from all the networks". Your rant is spot-on.