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

To: American Spirit who wrote (431915)	7/23/2003 12:40:21 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Californis Democrats: Just as corrupt and dishonest as the Democrats in Washington. They should have shut up, and just gone out and booed some Boy Scouts... sacbee.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (431915)	7/23/2003 1:06:23 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You have no way of assessing how questionable they were, in most instances. Even now, the British stand by their intelligence about Saddam seeking to purchase uranium in Africa, which did not depend on the forged documents. German intelligence has stated that Iraq was indisputably buying material for use in chemical weapons, and still fears that the regime holdouts have the capacity of manufacturing chemical weapons. No satisfactory explanation has ever been provided for what happened to the stockpiles of VX and anthrax unaccounted for by Iraq. For my part, I remain confident that most of the intelligence was correct........

To: American Spirit who wrote (431915)	7/23/2003 1:22:01 PM
From: Richard S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The list of scandals continues to grow day by day for the BUSH administration in much the same way things happened with RICHARD NIXON. Soon, the lies will all fall on BUSH like a house of cards, and his excuses will fall on deaf ears. He will have no need to talk about a 2nd term then.

To: American Spirit who wrote (431915)	7/23/2003 1:46:34 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

July 23, 2003 Qusai Hussein Was Widely Feared in Iraq By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:34 p.m. ET BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Qusai Hussein, Saddam Hussein's younger son, held wide-ranging powers over the nation's ruthless security apparatus that made him one of the most feared men in Iraq. Qusai was No. 2 on the U.S.-led coalition forces' list of the 55 most wanted men from the former Iraqi regime, behind only his father. He was also on a Bush administration list of regime members who could be tried for war crimes. The two brothers died in a shootout with American soldiers Tuesday in northern Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition troops in Iraq, announced. Quiet, handsome and every bit as brutal as Saddam, the 37-year-old Qusai headed Iraq's intelligence and security services, his father's personal security force and the Republican Guard, an elite force of 80,000 soldiers responsible for defending Baghdad. He stayed out of the public eye and led a substantially more subdued private life than his older brother Odai, who collected luxury cars by the hundreds and had a habit of ordering his guards to snatch young women off the street in order to rape them. Iraqis nicknamed Qusai ``The Snake'' for his bloodthirsty but low-profile manner. Qusai was far more trusted by his father and appeared to be his heir before the regime crumbled. In televised meetings with top security and military men, Qusai was seated next to his father, wearing well-tailored suits and dutifully noting his father's every word. An exiled dissident told The Associated Press that only Qusai and Saddam's private secretary, Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, who was captured in June, were kept informed of Saddam's whereabouts. Odai was thought to be too reckless to be trusted with such information. Experts do not believe Qusai played a significant role in the Gulf War of 1991. But he was a leading figure of terror in the conflict's aftermath, using mass executions and torture to crush the Shiite Muslim uprising after that war. Qusai also helped engineer the destruction of the southern marshes in the 1990s, an action aimed at Shiite ``Marsh Arabs'' living there. The marshes -- roughly 3,200 square miles -- had provided the necessities of life for tens of thousands of marsh dwellers for at least 1,000 years. The area was destroyed through a large-scale water diversion project intended to remove the ability of insurgents to hide there. Qusai also oversaw Iraq's notorious detention centers and is believed to have initiated ``prison cleansing'' -- a means of relieving severe overcrowding in jails with arbitrary killings. Citing testimony from former Iraqi intelligence officers and other state employees, New York-based Human Rights Watch said several thousand inmates were executed at Iraq's prisons over the past several years. Prisoners were often eliminated with a bullet to the head, but one witness told the London-based human rights group Indict that inmates were sometimes murdered by being dropped into shredding machines. Some prisoners went in head first and died quickly, while others were put in feet first and died screaming. The witness said that on at least one occasion, Qusai supervised shredding-machine murders. On another occasion, a witness said, an inmate's foot was cut off in a prison torture room while Qusai was present. ``The amputation had been carried out with a power saw during his torture under the direct supervision of Qusai,'' the witness told Indict. Qusai was made chief of the army branch for the ruling Baath party in 2000, meaning virtually all the army's movements were under his supervision. Just before this year's war began, he was put in charge of defending the nation's capital and heartland. Qusai was spared any real combat during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, although state television showed him conferring with commanders. He did not do any of the compulsory military service required of most Iraqi men. Qusai wed the daughter of a respected senior military commander. The couple, who later separated, had two daughters. U.S. officials said a teenager killed with Qusai may have been his son. ------ AP writer Pam Sampson also contributed to this story, with reporting from Doha, Qatar.