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

To: Thomas M. who wrote (21095)	5/2/2003 1:51:31 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

It's an excuse to justify Junior's cowardice for not coming back to DC after the attacks. Bush Senior was in the White House on the morning of the attacks, with Cheney, as told on public tv by Tim Russert. Bush Senior is said to have told Junior to get his ass back there. Junior is an programmed idiot, as clearly shown by his actions when told of the 2nd WTC plane at the school, when he sat there for 20 minutes waiting for further instructions.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (21095)	5/2/2003 2:02:52 AM
From: Seaworthy Lyric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

One thing that comes to mind is Dubya's disappearance during the whole day. The nation is under siege, and the president is nowhere to be found. If the media wanted to play it up (wishful thinking), here was a ready excuse.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (21095)	5/3/2003 4:11:46 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

WILLIAM SAFIRE: CONSERVATIVE CHAMELEON, and Willing Dupe? Tom, Re: I look at the source - Safire. What agenda would he have to fabricate this story? Safire has been all over the map w/r/t the Bushies. In 1992, he wrote a scathing attack on Poppy and the Raygun distribution of WMD goodies to Iraq in a column on "Iraqgate". Cf.: security-policy.org In this, he was a strange bedfellow with one of my heroes, Rep. Henry Gonzales (D. Tx) fas.org ******** Recently, Safire's hawkishness has surprised me, since he obviously knows how duplicitous and craven the Bushies are. This story about al Qaeda having the ability to communicate directly the President's plane with secret codes reminds me of 1) Saturday morning cartoons and 2) an incident that has been reported in Lou Dubose's "Boy Genius" and James Moore's "Bush's Brain". Several years ago, when Carl Rove (the subject of these two exposes), was a political consultant to Bill Clements, in a tight race for Governor of Texas, Rove broke a story about a "bug" being found in his office on the morning of an important debate between the candidates. Interestingly, Rove didn't bother to call the police after a "de-bugging" operation by a private surveillance contractor found the bug. No, Rove called a press conference. Little was made of the fact during the remaining two weeks of the campaign (or later) that Rove himself was a prime suspect on the planting of the "bug". And the story that destroyed his political opponent. ******** Could Safire have been duped and used by Carl Rove? Absolutely, according to Wayne Slater, co-author of "Bush's Brain", who was called by Rove when Slater was a reporter at a Dallas newspaper to spread a vicious rumor about a Democrat that Rove wanted to discredit. Rove has no conscience. He'll lie about anything. Was Safire a willing dupe? Sure looks like it to me.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (21095)	5/3/2003 4:16:11 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Respond to of 93284

<<Thinking about the validity of this story, I look at the source - Safire. What agenda would he have to fabricate this story?>> You don't need any conspiracies to understand this one. A lot of people (including Safire) were criticizing Bush for going underground on 9-11, for not going to the Whitehouse. So Rove lied to Safire, made up the credible threat story. Safire bought it hook-line and sinker. The credible threat has now been explained as a misunderstanding... Steve