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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Raymond Duray who wrote (99)1/4/2003 10:34:24 PM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
>>>(Mr. Bush's recent attempt to hype the Iraqi threat by saying that an Iraqi attack on America--which is most unlikely--"would cripple our economy" was embarrassing. It made the president look as if he was groping for an excuse to go to war, absent a smoking gun.)<<<

nytimes.com

Who ever heard of an "Iraqi attack on America?" Do Saddam's words hurt that badly?



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (99)1/4/2003 10:48:42 PM
From: PartyTime  Respond to of 25898
 
More on the oil part, but from a different viewpoint, courtesy of a FADG poster:

Message 18400092



To: Raymond Duray who wrote (99)1/5/2003 2:31:17 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 25898
 
Hi Ray:

kept this to myself since 09/11: my first gut, fleeting reaction to the burning towers, before the close-ups, before it all really dawned on me, was:"US, kick your gas habit".