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To: KonKilo who wrote (69624)	1/28/2003 9:08:29 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

9/11 Probe: Aiming High By Timothy J. Burger TIME.com Sunday 27 January 2003 The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks wants to talk to top Bush Administration officials After a bumpy start that included the resignation of Henry Kissinger as its first chairman, the commission investigating pre-Sept. 11 government lapses may remain just as controversial. Two commissioners of the bipartisan panel, which holds its first meeting this week, told TIME they will push for a wide-ranging, aggressive probe that will include testimony from top Bush Administration officials who didn't testify last year in a joint inquiry by the House and Senate intelligence committees. One panelist, Tim Roemer, a Democrat who just retired from Congress, complained in a statement he issued last month as a member of the House-Senate panel that the congressional probe suffered because such officials as Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Condoleezza Rice "were not questioned directly about issues related to the Sept. 11 attacks." A Rumsfeld spokesman refused to "speculate on what participation will be extended" to the commission. But Roemer told TIME that all relevant Bush officials must be interviewed this time around, along with officials from prior Administrations. His view is echoed by another commissioner, who says, "I can't imagine that we wouldn't be talking to them." Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a key architect of the legislation forming the commission, said the Bush Administration "slow-walked and stonewalled" the House-Senate inquiry. "I don't see how you can have a thorough investigation without talking to the people who were in charge throughout the time period prior to 9/11," he told TIME. McCain said the new investigation should go at least as far back as 1989, when U.S.-backed mujahedin drove the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan--and the U.S. pulled back from involvement in the war--scarred region truthout.org

To: KonKilo who wrote (69624)	1/28/2003 10:41:30 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Colin Powell urges Pakistan and India to "take risks for peace"> Indian government's position is no different to the Israeli government's position : stop the terrorism, and then we'll talk.

To: KonKilo who wrote (69624)	1/29/2003 12:23:27 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That sort of "honest broker" is the only rational relationship of the US to the rest of these blood-feud countries. For once, I agree with Kissinger, who in a moment of accidental clarity, said of Indi/Paki relationship the following bit of unvarnished, unheard-of geopolitical truth: "We don't have the answers to their problems"' Yes, this is the same man who engineered US diplomatic structures that involved the deaths of millions in SE Asia and Latin America, saying something containing common sense. (Prolly fishing for new clients -g-) Translate that to every blood-feuding country our military and self-interested politicos drag the US into, and there would be a chance of a rational FP, rather than one based on maximum number of flying body parts.