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

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (458991)	9/15/2003 2:35:07 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 769667

President Bush's Mis-State of the Union misleader.org Sixteen untrue words in the President's State of the Union message helped push American into war with Iraq. It's now clear that the remaining 5397 words in the speech were just as misleading. For example: On the Economy: "We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations." The truth: Factoring in the cost of reconstruction in Iraq and other laws that are set to be enacted, the federal budget deficit is close to $5 trillion over the next 10 years. The President's latest request to make his tax cuts permanent would add another nearly $1.6 trillion to the federal debt through 2013. That's $41,300 for every man, woman and child. On Jobs: My "first goal is an economy that [will] employ every man and woman who seeks a job." The truth: 2.5 million jobs have already been lost since 2001 and the President's own economic advisors project that his economic plan - if everything goes well - will create fewer jobs in the next year than were lost in the last year. This will make President Bush the first president since Hoover's Great Depression-era presidency to preside over an economy that has lost more jobs than it's created. _________________________________ This website will chronicle the Bush Administration's ongoing misstatements, misleading figures, and outright deception. Unfortunately for all of us, there is enough misleading to keep this website busy. (Research by Bob Borosage, Co-Director of Campaign for America's Future.)

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (458991)	9/15/2003 3:05:03 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

OPEC May Invite Iraq to Oil Meeting Mon Sep 15,11:37 AM ET LONDON - OPEC (news - web sites) might invite Iraq (news - web sites)'s newly installed oil minister to next week's meeting of the cartel even without prior U.N. recognition of the new interim government in Baghdad, the cartel's president said Monday. Such an invitation would mark a milestone in Iraq's rehabilitation as an oil producer. Iraq hasn't attended meetings of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries since the U.S.-led invasion this spring, and it hasn't participated in the group's output agreements since the Gulf War (news - web sites) of 1991. OPEC President Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah said he thought the group should invite Iraq to attend the group's Sept. 24 session in Vienna, Austria. His comments in Doha, Qatar, appeared to soften OPEC's long-standing position that an invitation would come only after the United Nations (news - web sites) recognized the new Iraqi government. They followed last week's decision by the Cairo-based Arab League to welcome Iraq's foreign minister to fill Iraq's seat in that organization. Even if what you think is true i.e. no cheaper oil, you don't think that just MAYBE some Iraqis are going to buy goods imported from the USA with the dollars from the oil they sell? Or are you determined to disagree with everything I post? :-)