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To: i-node who wrote (177411)	11/3/2003 5:35:29 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574227

DR, re: While you complain about spending 87B to provide for our future safety and free the people of Iraq and bring peace to the Middle East, you haven't said one word about Teddy Kennedy's $13B expenditure to make traffic better in Boston or the 30-40B/year we give to people who don't work through the EITC. At least Boston is in this country. And the earned income tax credit isn't all that onerous, when you consider it goes to some folks that the economy left behind. Why do you feel the people of Iraq are more deserving than the people of the US? John

To: i-node who wrote (177411)	11/4/2003 12:56:56 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574227

Broadcast on Sunday, November 2, 2003 by CBS's 60-Minutes If I Were Bush's Speechwriter... A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney Years ago, I was asked to write a speech for President Nixon. I didn't do that, but I wish President Bush would ask me to write a speech for him now. Here's what I'd write if he asked me to - which is unlikely: My fellow Americans - (the word "fellow" includes women in political speeches): My fellow Americans. One of the reasons we invaded Iraq was because I suggested Saddam Hussein had something to do with the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. No evidence that's so, I wish I hadn't said it. I said we were going to get Saddam Hussein. To be honest, we don't know whether we got him or not. Probably not. I said we'd get Osama bin Laden and wipe out al Qaeda. We haven't been able to do that, either. I'm as disappointed as you are. I probably shouldn't have said Iraq had nuclear weapons. Our guys and the U.N. have looked under every bed in Iraq and can't find one. In one speech, I told you Saddam Hussein tried to buy the makings of nuclear bombs from Africa. That was a mistake and I wish I hadn't said that. I get bad information sometimes just like you do. On May 1, I declared major combat was over and gave you the impression the war was over. I shouldn't have declared that. Since then, 215 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. As the person who sent them there, how terrible do you think that makes me feel? I promised to leave no child behind when it comes to education. Then I asked for an additional $87 billion for Iraq. It has to come from somewhere. I hope the kids aren't going to have to pay for it - now in school or later when they're your age. When I landed on the deck of the carrier, I wish they hadn't put up the sign saying MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. It isn't accomplished. Maybe it should have been MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. I've made some mistakes and I regret it. Let me just read you excerpts from something my father wrote five years ago in his book, “A World Transformed.” I firmly believed we should not march into Baghdad ...To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant, into a latter-day Arab hero … This is my father writing this. ...assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. We should all take our father's advice. That's the speech I'd write for President Bush. No charge. Written By Andy Rooney © MMIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. ###