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


To: JakeStraw who wrote (358638)2/13/2003 10:32:11 AM
From: sea_biscuit  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
What really matters now is how Duh handles the situation. After all, he was not selected to be President for nothing! Or was he?



To: JakeStraw who wrote (358638)2/13/2003 10:33:58 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667
 
Enron Corp., aided by its outside legal and accounting advisers, overwhelmed the Internal Revenue Service with complex returns that eliminated nearly all federal tax payments in the last years before its collapse
washingtonpost.com

Enron's minuscule tax payments could have tipped off investors that the company's operating business results were much lower than what it reported in its financial statements, Seida said. But ordinary investors could not solve that puzzle based on the meager information Enron reported about its tax payments.



To: JakeStraw who wrote (358638)2/13/2003 10:34:52 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
after the U.S. confronted it over its secret program to enrich uranium.

After Junior made it clear that he was a madman out to bomb everyone who couldn't respond in kind.

TP