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

To: SalemsHex who wrote (550824)	3/11/2004 10:47:24 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

We all KNOW why Powell didn't qualify to be a presidential candidate. The news, since 91101, is that few if any Democrats qualify to be Americans...

To: SalemsHex who wrote (550824)	3/11/2004 10:48:08 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 769667

I did not have sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky........................................................................ Those that can pay more, will pay more............................................................................

To: SalemsHex who wrote (550824)	3/11/2004 11:08:17 PM
From: AurumRabosa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The new Pentagon papers - excerpt by Karen Kwiatkowski March 10, 2004 In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I had served as a communications officer in the field and in acquisition programs, as a speechwriter for the National Security Agency director, and on the Headquarters Air Force and the office of the secretary of defense staffs covering African affairs. I had completed Air Command and Staff College and Navy War College seminar programs, two master's degrees, and everything but my Ph.D. dissertation in world politics at Catholic University. I regarded my military vocation as interesting, rewarding and apolitical... ...this agenda, whatever its flaws or merits, had never been openly presented to the American people. Instead, the public story line was a fear-peddling and confusing set of messages, designed to take Congress and the country into a war of executive choice, a war based on false pretenses, and a war one year later Americans do not really understand. That is why I have gone public with my account... Trigilio and I had hallway debates, as friends. The one I remember most clearly was shortly after President Bush gave his famous "mushroom cloud" speech in Cincinnati in October 2002, asserting that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction as well as ties to "international terrorists," and was working feverishly to develop nuclear weapons with "nuclear holy warriors." I asked John who was feeding the president all the bull about Saddam and the threat he posed us in terms of WMD delivery and his links to terrorists, as none of this was in secret intelligence I had seen in the past years. John insisted that it wasn't an exaggeration, but when pressed to say which actual intelligence reports made these claims, he would only say, "Karen, we have sources that you don't have access to." It was widely felt by those of us in the office not in the neoconservatives' inner circle that these "sources" related to the chummy relationship that Ahmad Chalabi had with both the Office of Special Plans and the office of the vice president... salon.com