Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kumar who wrote (119807)	11/17/2003 3:44:46 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

> Sep 11 2001, George Bush Sr held no government position for the US. The issue is not if Bush Sr. had a government position on 9/11 but rather would it have been useful to question the members of OBL after 9/11. I would say his own family members and other rich Saudis would have better leads to him and his finances than say Saddam > Also prior to that, Osama bin Laden was disawowed by his family, and stripped of his Saudi citizenship. ...and just what is it about Saudis that makes them so trustworthy to make us just take their word that they are clean of it? If we believe them, then why are we continuing to investigate the Saudi connections? > Since when does being a family member of a crook, make one a crook ? I did not make that accusation. You are jumping the gun. I am simply saying that when a criminal is on the run, the standard procedure is to ask the family about his where abouts and interview them for useful info. The next standard procedure is to suspect the family, being what families are, will try to help and protect their own. And as such, police often fallow the family around regardless of if they believe the other family members are involved. > Surely you dont expect the President to tell his father - a civilian - who he should meet/not meet for business reasons in a different part of the country ? Surely you don't think that whatever money Bush Sr. makes from his business dealings with the Bin Laden's will not eventually affect the net worth of the son? Or that the Jr. will not think twice before spoiling daddy's food? Do you really see no conflicts of interest here? In legal cases, judges are excused for far less connections.