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

To: tejek who wrote (426078)	7/12/2003 5:16:58 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bushie denials on Niger and related questions are the first sign of an orchestrated cover-up. Like Watergate where lower level officials were blamed at first. But the trail leads all the way to the top. Especially to Cheney who personally pressured the CIA to skew their intel efforts to make the argument for unilateral invasion. I admit, the Bushies are in a tight spot. If they admit they lied once, they'll be held accountable for every other falsehood they've put out there, and there are many dozens of them on all sorts of issues going back to early 2001 with Cheney's energy papers scandal.

To: tejek who wrote (426078)	7/12/2003 5:22:10 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Look t all the pretty colors used to present so much biased BS.

To: tejek who wrote (426078)	7/12/2003 5:32:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

yes rejek, things are so bad in Iraq the so many people feel safe and secure that they are going about and creating traffic jams. Why didn't PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH address this with a plan for traffic control in the State of the Union Address.

To: tejek who wrote (426078)	7/12/2003 6:19:55 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769670

Right from Newsweek....the message is getting out.... "Bush’s insecurities are at the heart of it. Haunted by his father’s defeat and the accidental nature of his own presidency, Bush never wants to hand his enemies ammunition. He can’t let cracks appear or the whole edifice could crumble. The moment Bush landed on the USS Lincoln, he was caught in his own net of hubris. The juvenile taunt—”Bring ‘em on”—diminishes the seriousness of sending men and women into an urban guerilla battle that nobody prepared them for. American soldiers in Iraq are going on the record with reporters to say how unhappy they are, and how vulnerable they feel. You don’t do that in the military unless the conditions are dire. How different it would have been if instead on May 1 Bush had delivered a sober speech from the Oval Office saying we have succeeded in the first phase of the war, followed by a candid assessment of what lay ahead. How different the tone and the context would be today. Instead we have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flippantly dismissing America’s European allies. NATO hasn’t been consulted about helping with security and reconstruction in Iraq since December, three months before the war began. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified about the Coalition of the Willing, boasting about assistance from Eastern European countries. “I’m not interested in three Latvians in bio-chem suits,” says California Democrat Ellen Tauscher. “I’m interested in a Coalition of the Capable: countries with real skill sets, real burden-sharing and real checkbooks.” CC