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To: Road Walker who wrote (194429)	7/14/2004 4:54:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573857

re: I am trying to decide what to do with those profits.......put them into semis, something else or go into cash. Don't ask me... right now I don't have a clue. Yeah, its a tough and frustrating market. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (194429)	7/14/2004 4:58:20 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573857

<font color=brown>It ain't over til its over!<font color=black> ***************************************************** WHouse Balks at Releasing Prewar Summary on Iraq WMD Wed Jul 14, 2004 04:24 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has refused to release a prewar intelligence summary compiled for President Bush on Iraq's banned weapons that Democrats said on Wednesday had given him none of the dissenting views included in more comprehensive intelligence reports. Senate staffers were allowed to review the one-page presidential summary of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi weapons programs, but Democrats said the document should be declassified and publicly released. The White House responded with a complaint that some Democrats were now playing politics with the issue even though the document had been made available as part of the Senate intelligence panel's review. However, Democrats said staff notes show the summary prepared for the president made no mention of the dissent within the government over Iraq's illicit weapons capabilities as was detailed in full report. "I don't know if the president would have changed his mind based on what was said in the presidential summary," said Senate Intelligence Committee Democrat Richard Durbin of Illinois. But he added: "If the president received a summary which was not complete, that did not contain this (dissenting) information, then we should know that." On the campaign trail in several battleground states this week, Bush defended his decision to go to war despite a Senate intelligence committee report that said U.S. intelligence agencies overstated the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, a chief White House reason for the invasion. In a conference call with reporters organized by Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's campaign, Durbin said: "We have requested, through the Senate Intelligence Committee, that the White House produce this document and they have refused. I think that's wrong," the Illinois senator told reporters. "We have to have accountability -- and accountability goes beyond the intelligence agencies," Durbin added. White House spokesman Scott McClellan countered: "The Democrat and Republican staff members on the intelligence committee were able to review the document. They had access to the document as part of their review." Democrats accused the White House of using executive privilege to keep the one-page summary secret even though it was widely disseminated within the administration. Kerry's campaign also questioned whether Bush and his top advisers read the full National Intelligence Estimate, or just the one-page summary. But Durbin told reporters he did not know if Kerry had read the full National Intelligence Estimate before voting to authorize the use of force. The document summed up the contents of the National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iraq possessed chemical and biological weapons but noted dissent from the State Department's intelligence service and other agencies. reuters.com