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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (22905)	7/22/2003 10:29:02 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 89467

<font color=purple>Last week, Ari Fleischer conveyed the Bush team’s general contempt for the media’s interest in the Niger “documents” and, more generally, for the fact that, three months after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein’s arsenal so far appears more chimerical than chemical. “The President has moved on,” </font> newyorker.com The faux-President fails, then moves on a lot. <font color=blue>It's been <font color=red>673<font color=blue> days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!' <font color=black> TP

To: T L Comiskey who wrote (22905)	7/23/2003 8:17:46 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Certainly isn't outside of the realm of possibility... Here's an interesting analysis: yuricareport.com Fraud Traced to the White House How California’s energy scam was inextricably linked to a war for oil scheme ______________________ By Katherine Yurica This story begins with the California energy crisis, which started in 2000 and continued through the early months of 2001, when electricity prices spiked to their highest levels. Prices went from $12 per megawatt hour in 1998 to $200 in December 2000 to $250 in January 2001, and at times a megawatt cost $1,000. One event occurred earlier. On July 13, 1998, employees of one of the two power-marketing centers in California watched incredulously as the wholesale price of $1 a megawatt hour spiked to $9,999, stayed at that price for four hours, then dropped to a penny. Someone was testing the system to find the limits of market exploitation. This incident was the earliest indication that the people and the state could become victims of fraud. The Sacramento Bee broke the story three years later, on May 6, 2001. Today, Californians are still paying the costs of the debacle while according to state officials the power companies who manipulated the energy markets reaped more than $7.5 billion in unfair profits. During those early months of the Bush administration, and even during the prior transition period, Dick Cheney was deeply involved in gathering information for a national energy policy. The intelligence he gathered would provide justification for a war against Iraq but would also place White House footprints all over a fraud scam. This is how it all happened. ... story continued ... follow web link