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To: stockman_scott who wrote (49432)	6/20/2004 10:53:57 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

If this is victory, then what would defeat look like? antiwar.com If Afghanistan is the forgotten war, then Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network are the neglected enemy. That they will likely remind us of their existence in a most unpleasant way is more than a possibility: in this view; it is an immediate prospect. "I'm very sure they can't have a better administration for them than the one they have now," says our anonymous spook. "One way to keep the Republicans in power is to mount an attack that would rally the country around the president." Osama – a Republican? <font color=blue>It's been <font color=red>1007 <font color=blue>days since Bush said he'd catch Osama bin Laden 'Dead or Alive!'

To: stockman_scott who wrote (49432)	6/20/2004 10:54:14 PM
From: nz_q	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Ken Lay, former CEO Enron The Kingpin. Lay presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcies and schemes to defraud investors that America has ever seen. Shareholders, workers and pensioners lost BILLIONS of dollars while Lay lined his pockets with millions of dollars in stock option gains; Lay had total compensation of over $100,000,000 in 2001 alone. Advised employees to buy Enron stock after he was informed Enron was ready to implode wallstreetmostwanted.com and then this: Enron's last-minute bonus orgy Days before filing for bankruptcy, the scandal-ridden company rewarded some executives with million-dollar bonuses as laid-off workers were denied severance packages... "According to one former senior executive, Enron's original severance package -- subsequently scrapped -- cost $120 million and would have provided each employee approximately $30,000 in severance on average. That plan was reduced, then discarded. Instead, at least $105 million was distributed in executive bonuses. "What I'd like to know is why the creditors' committee is letting them get away with this," the former executive asks. "What about this new CEO, Stephen Douglas, doesn't he need that money to operate? This is outright fraud and theft." salon.com