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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (567671)	4/22/2004 10:03:14 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

And now the two major recoveries from disastrous Democrat economics are the administrations of Reagan and Bush II. Withour them, we would already be as poor as any 3rd world shithole-including France...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (567671)	4/22/2004 10:59:50 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

more news of mr. bill the stupidest that ever was. just for the pleasure of lying and libeling Kenneth E. Phillipps. Thursday, Apr. 22, 2004 10:25 AM EDT Clinton Admin. Linked OBL to Somalia Attack Before Sudan Offer When the Clinton administration decided to turn down Sudan's offer to have Osama bin Laden arrested and extradited to the U.S., it already knew that the notorious 9/11 mastermind was behind the Black Hawk Down attack in Somalia in 1993, an upcoming 9/11 Commission witness is prepared to testify. According to Mansoor Ijaz, who served as a diplomatic troubleshooter for President Clinton in the late 1990s, bin Laden was offered by Sudanese Defense Minister Elfatih Erwa during a meeting with the CIA's Africa Bureau chief in a Virginia hotel room in March 1996. Instead of accepting the offer, however, Clinton officials pressed Sudan to expel bin Laden to any country other than Somalia, Ijaz told WDAY North Dakota radio host Scott Hennen on Wednesday. "[The Clinton administration] did not want him to go to Somalia because, guess what - they knew that bin Laden was behind the attacks against our helicopter pilot in Black Hawk Down in Somalia in 1993," he explained. "Wait and see what hell I raise about that in the testimony that I give," said Ijaz, who is scheduled to appear before the 9/11 Commission on May 7. According to Ijaz, Erwa told the CIA case officer, "If [the U.S.] has any legal basis, any indictment, anything that you can show us that you're prepared to try bin Laden on American soil, we will hand him over to you." But the Sudanese offer was met with "dead silence" from the CIA case officer, Ijaz contends. "Literally, that offer was left on the dining table in that Alexandria hotel room," he lamented. In Feb. 2002, ex-President Clinton admitted that he knew about the Sudanese offer, and personally decided to turn it down, telling a New York business group, "At the time, 1996, [bin Laden] had committed no crimes against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him." Ijaz's account, however, would contradict Clinton's claim that bin Laden had committed "no crimes against America" before 1996. The one-time Clinton administration troubleshooter accused former Attorney General Janet Reno of blocking an investigation that could have provided a legal basis to accept the Sudanese offer, telling radio host Hennen, "It was the Reno Justice Department that refused over and over and over again to have a grand jury sit and determine whether an indictment [of bin Laden] could be made." Ijaz said his upcoming testimony would also expose dissembling on the part of former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger. "I'm going to see to it that Mr. Berger answers questions about what it is that he did," he warned. "We have a lot more that's going to come out. And I'm not ever going to let him get away with thinking that he can tell the American people that they did all that they could, when we know that is not the case." The Pakistani-American businessman says he has records that will show "exactly what happened, precisely who said what to whom, how it was said, in what context it was said, in which emotional state it was said, and then we'll find out what the truth is." Ijaz said he will demand to testify in public after first meeting with the 9/11 Commission privately, telling Hennen, "And if they don't let me testify publicly, I will put all this on the public record in another way, because they cannot stop this information from getting out." newsmax.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (567671)	4/22/2004 6:07:51 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

And how many of the years you cite did the republicans control congress? Effectively, none.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (567671)	4/22/2004 6:18:38 PM
From: jmhollen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That's why the interest rates were at 22+% under Jimminy L'Peanut Carter, which damn near killed the private farmers and Ag industry as a whole - and damn near shut down our defense industry. It was Reagan and the "MX+SDI" effort that wrecked the Russian economy, and removed them as the world's premiere nuclear threat. GDubya, on the other hand, is non-taxing us back into prosperity - which I know drives you goofy-arse spend-crazy Demoncrats clear around the bend. And, here's one that will really whiz you off; I worked on the MX projects twice - for BIG-$$$$. Life's tough in Dizzy City, Poopsy - especially when the 'right' people have the reins. John :-) .