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

To: Howard C. who wrote (504647)	12/5/2003 7:16:38 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This country is not being defeated. The DOMESTIC enemy has been exposed, and 80% of the public will PURGE them from ALL positions of any influence in politics, academia, the media, the professions, and commerce. It is a necessary cathartic for a society that expects to survive...

To: Howard C. who wrote (504647)	12/5/2003 7:24:24 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Another regime toppled for oil - this time it's a democracy. - "Last year, Georgia,a country of five million, was given $64 million of U.S. aid, making it the second-biggest recipient of U.S. aid per capita after Israel. The reason? Georgia is in the frontline of the 'war on terror.' Russia says that its mountainous Pankisi gorge is a hideout for Chechen rebels, while the U.S. reckons that amongst these fighters there might be as many as a dozen Al-Qaeda members, which works out around over five million dollars a head!" - Reading between the lines, ... an alternative explanation might help those who are unusually attracted to the truth: "... for the last 10 years, the U.S. and Britain have been investing in central Asian oilfields, but have been struggling to find a way of getting the oil to the West without taking it through Iran or Russia. Bingo! Just weeks ago, the World Bank and European Development Bank each approved a £300 million contribution for BP's massive Baku-Ceyhan pipeline project, which will stretch from the Caspian through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey to the Mediterranean. - "According to the director of the 'Liberty Institute' in Georgia, Western oil money provided some of the finance behind the toppling of the Shevardnadze regime. With 60 percent of its population living well below the poverty level, the Georgian people had clearly had enough of Shevardnadze. But he had also upset his western 'friends' by arguing that the Baku-Ceyhan pipelines could damage the country's ecology and, more importantly, by pursuing major energy deals with Russia. "Within weeks, President 'elect' Bush sent senior adviser Stephen Mann to Tbilisi with a warning: 'Georgia should not do anything that undercuts the powerful promise of an East-West energy corridor.' When the energy deals with Russia went ahead anyway, former U.S. secretary of state James Baker flew in and warned the Georgian leader of the need for a free, fair parliamentary election. The vote was rigged, the people rose, and in a bloodless coup Shevardnadze became history. The new resident Mikhail Saakashvili is a U.S.-trained lawyer who, according to Business Week, has been courting Washington for some time with promises to block Shevardnadze's plan to give Russian oil interests a foothold in the country." schNEWS.org.uk CC