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

To: Poet who wrote (561008)	4/7/2004 8:26:27 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 769670

A Fool and His War Must Be Soon Thwarted capitolhillblue.com By DOUG THOMPSON Apr 7, 2004, 08:00 How many more Americans have to die before the idiots who blindly follow George W. Bush admit this madman is destroying America? How many more lies must be told by this pretender to the Presidency before we all realize the America we used to know and love has disappeared right before our eyes? How many? One thousand? Ten thousand? Fifty-five thousand? Must we endure ten years of another Vietnam before the brain dead morons who call themselves Republicans wake up and admit their President is a certifiable, dangerous lunatic? “We’ve lost control of the streets in Iraq,” retired general Barry McCaffrey said today in describing the country-wide fighting that has erupted in Iraq – a near wave of violence that may well eclipse the war that Bush declared over a year ago. Got a news flash for you Barry. We never had control of the streets in Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter. You can’t have control of anything when an insane man is calling the shots. Bush’s war, built on lies, never ended, was never won and might never end. Wars, by nature, are insane acts but become even more lunacy when waged by unbalanced leaders who put their political agendas ahead of the best interests of their country. Every American who dies in Iraq adds to the blood that covers the hands of George W. Bush. They died needlessly for his war of pettiness. While Americans die for his folly in Iraq, the real threat against America rebuilds his army of terrorists in Afghanistan and plots even more murder of Americans. Professional military planners, who realized long ago that the madman of 1600 Pennsylvania wouldn’t listen to him, say we should have moved quickly against those who killed four American civilian contractors in Fallujah last week but calls for swift action were rejected by the White House. “The White House operates in this netherworld where logic and reality aren’t allowed to exists,” says a senior Pentagon planner. “The deaths of Americans mean nothing to these people. It’s disgusting.” Yes, it is. Iraq is turning into another Vietnam, another morass where Americans die to support political deceptions. But all the Republicans can do is circle the wagons and talk about “staying the course” in Iraq. Stay what course? A war built on deceiving the American people? A foreign policy based on lying to our allies? I used to dismiss George W. Bush as nothing more than an incompetent man who got in over his head once he took up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania. I was wrong. Bush is a cold, calculating demagogue who doesn’t give a damn how many Americans die to support his insane policies. But who is more dangerous? The madman in the White House or the legions of mindless, moronic partisan zealots who follow him into the hell they have made of a once-great nation?

To: Poet who wrote (561008)	4/7/2004 9:03:21 AM
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White House Refuses Panel Request for Rice Speech Tue Apr 6, 9:39 PM ET By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has refused to provide the panel investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks with a speech national security adviser Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) was to deliver on that day touting missile defense as a priority rather than al Qaeda, sources said on Tuesday. With Rice slated to testify publicly before the commission on Thursday, the commission submitted a last-minute request for access to Rice's aborted Sept. 11, 2001 address, sources close to the panel said. But the White House has so far refused on the grounds that draft documents are confidential, the sources said. A spokesman for the commission would neither confirm nor deny the request, or the administration's response. The White House said it was cooperating with the investigation. "The White House is working with the commission to ensure that it has access to what it needs to do its job," White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. Critics of the administration have seized on Rice's scrubbed speech to back up charges that President Bush (news - web sites) and his top advisers ignored an urgent al Qaeda threat before the Sept. 11 attacks. The Washington Post, citing former U.S. officials, reported last week that the speech was designed to promote missile defense as the cornerstone of a new national security strategy, and contained no mention of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), or Islamic extremist groups. Daniel Feldman, who was a director at the National Security Council under Bush's predecessor, Democrat Bill Clinton (news - web sites), said the excerpts appeared to "reflect the intellectual underpinnings for the administration's pre-9/11 neglect of counterterrorism." "That's why it's critical that the White House release the full text of the speech and for the commission to ask Dr. Rice about the apparent inconsistencies," Feldman said. A main area of questioning for Rice is expected to be claims by former U.S. counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke that Bush ignored the threat posed by al Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks and was fixated on Iraq (news - web sites). The White House has rejected the assertion that Bush, Rice and others in the top echelons of power were more concerned about missile defense than terrorism. "You're talking about one speech," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said last week. "I think you need to look at the actions and concrete steps that we were taking to confront the threat of terrorism." The White House could still back down and provide the full speech to the panel. Bush has backed down in the past. Responding to strong political pressure from both Republicans and Democrats, the White House made an abrupt about-face and agreed to allow Rice to testify publicly and under oath after previously insisting she only speak to the panel privately. Last week, the White House agreed to allow the commission to review thousands of pages of foreign policy and counter-terrorism documents from the Clinton administration. Under pressure, the White House let commission staff review the Clinton papers at the National Archives. A commission official said on Tuesday that staff members had completed their review and that the panel may request some of the documents. news.yahoo.com