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

To: Selectric II who wrote (478758)	10/20/2003 2:58:32 PM
From: steve dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The GAO estimated the financial cost as 20 to 30 billion, which coincidentally is about the same amount we're going to donate to Iraq. It really doesn't hold up as far as excuses go for the current and past economic fiasco. The emotional cost of course are immeasurable.

To: Selectric II who wrote (478758)	10/20/2003 3:22:13 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush allowed 9-11 to occur. It was his watch. He was warned on 8-5 of impending hijackings in the US. He did nothing. He squashed FBI investigations into Saudi funding. He let the Bin Laudens and other powerful Saudis out of the country with no interrogation. He then used 9-11 to implement some of the most hard-line right-wing ideas we've ever seen, and to enrich his cronies. We are probably not any safer now than we were before 9-11. Airplanes are safer, and the Taliban are out of power, but that's about it.

To: Selectric II who wrote (478758)	10/20/2003 5:34:57 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<No, not everything gets blamed on 9/11. Clinton gets blamed for allowing all the pre-9/11 terrorism to occur, unanswered, that led up to 9/11 ('93 WTC bombing, Khobar Towers bombing, African embassies bombings, USS Kole bombing). With a bolder response in the '90's, it wouldn't have happened.> I'm sure he would have done more, had he not been defending himself from self-serving Newt and the Republicans trying to impeach him for a blow job. Don't Republicans get blow jobs?