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

To: E who wrote (445112)	8/19/2003 3:04:32 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's interesting to read that this war was being cooked-up way back then. In 1973-74, with the Arab oil embargo, the Ford presidency was brought down by the disruption of the US economy, a point not lost on two young senior officials at the time, Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney, respectively Gerald Ford's defence secretary and White House chief of staff. Pentagon and academic planners began making contingency plans for the military seizure of the Middle East oilfields. CC

To: E who wrote (445112)	8/19/2003 3:13:19 PM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The real target of the war in Iraq was Saudi Arabia" E, it doesn't matter. Those who most need to read that either won't, or if they do, just ignore it. The true believer Bushies were told that the Iraqi invasion was not about oil, Saddam was responsible for 9/11, and that is it. Don't confuse them with facts. Del

To: E who wrote (445112)	8/19/2003 3:22:16 PM
From: Krowbar	Respond to of 769670

"The real target of the war in Iraq was Saudi Arabia" The biggest problem we now have is a cowering media that are afraid to delve into the Bush, Bin laden, Saudi Arabia, and Carlyle group connection to 9/11. Democracy fails without an informed public that can respond properly at the polls to factual information, rather than the Carl Rove spin that they are now parroting. Del