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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (27913)	9/17/2003 3:38:43 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The other day, in response to a report that Bush might send some of the neo-cons packing, I responded that "the whole barrel was rotten". While true, a la Animal Farm, some of the apples are more rotten than others. For rotten-apple-in-chief, none can compare with Cheney. After being decimated in the '90s, the MIC (Military Industrial Complex) got their man installed as the "power behind the throne". Not only did he get his PNAC cronies installed in positions of power, but he continues to call for policies that guarantee MIC full employment. Vice President Cheney sees no end in sight for the war on terrorism. But he vows the Bush administration will not settle for anything less than total victory. Cheney calls Iraq the central front in the war on terror. And he adds U-S and coalition forces will remain in Iraq, as well as Afghanistan, "until the job is done." from wavy.com Also, from "Cheney's 69% solution" Vice President Dick Cheney emerged from an undisclosed location the other day for a rare interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." The main topic was U.S. policy in Iraq, which the vice president defended. But Cheney's real aim seemed to be more narrow. Fourteen months before the next election, he sought to reassure Americans, 69 percent of whom, according to a recent opinion poll, believe the previous Iraqi regime had something to do with the 9/11 attacks, that they were right. Among other things, Cheney resurrected a previous claim about an alleged meeting in Prague between an Iraqi intelligence operative and 9/11 chief hijacker Mohamed Atta. Never mind that evidence shows Atta was in Virginia on the day in question, that the Iraqi agent -- now in custody -- says the meeting never happened and that U.S. and other intelligence agencies say they found no evidence the meeting took place. There was also a new teaser that the administration continues to learn more about al-Qaida-Iraq connections prior to Sept. 11, 2001. But of course Cheney couldn't divulge any details. Could that be because there aren't any? His claims must have come as a surprise to members of the U.S. intelligence community, who said they found them confusing -- one ex-CIA counter-terrorism chief called them "appalling" -- because no such evidence has ever surfaced. But of course Cheney wasn't addressing disbelieving spooks. He was speaking to all those potential voters who, he apparently believes, need constant reassurance, against all evidence, that Saddam Hussein was part of the 9/11 plot -- that the money and lives Americans are expending are worth the cost. The rationale is that, by taking the fight to the terrorists in Baghdad, we're shielding our people at home. Are we? Perhaps he'll get back to us on that when he next emerges from his undisclosed location, where he's no doubt busily searching for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. sacbee.com and The Vice President, as if he had merely spelled someone's name wrong, coolly replied: "Yeah, I did misspeak. I said repeatedly during the show 'weapons capability.' We never had any evidence that he had acquired a nuclear weapon." They "never had any evidence." They just wanted us to believe they did. from "Half-baked whoppers hard to swallow" workingforchange.com One thing you can say is that the MIC surely got a guy that "sings for his supper". JMO lurqer