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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (6403)	11/10/2003 9:12:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10965

Glenn, Thanks for the link. What anti-Bush part was there to that piece? Tucker is part of the media whoredom. Just look at how she she backhands this admission that Bush is an evil liar and that the unreasonably maligned Rep. Cynthia McKinney is still crazy for telling us the truth: Tucker: "If Congress had not long ago sold out to the highest bidder, its members might have the guts to impose a war-profiteering tax on the companies that have flocked to Iraq like vultures. There are enough Bush cronies with major contracts to make left-wing loonies such as former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who infamously suggested that Bush did not intervene to stop the Sept. 11 attacks so his friends could profit from the ensuing war -- seem prescient. While such a tax might not generate $87 billion, it would send a signal that Congress was not pleased by the unsavory rush to profit from this bloody enterprise. But not to worry. The profiteers are well-protected by their connections. Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, and Bechtel, whose principals include close associates of the elder President Bush, have already sucked up billions in reconstruction contracts. And the cronies just keep coming. A new group of influence-peddlers, New Bridge Strategies, has just hung out a shingle in Washington, where they intend to advise companies that want to do business in Iraq. Their expertise lies in who they know. They include Joe Allbaugh, who was Bush's campaign manager in 2000, and others who have close ties to Bush the Elder. They'll have no trouble getting their calls to the White House and the Pentagon returned." Source: ajc.com Now I ask you, if Rep. Cynthia McKinney was honest, correct and prescient, why does Editor Cynthia Tucker still call her "loonie"? Tucker may be pointing out the obvious mafia/criminal aspects of the Bush operation, but she can't do so without being a bit dishonest herself.