To: Raymond Duray who wrote (61744 ) 10/19/2004 10:42:23 PM From: stockman_scott Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467 Some interesting posts from a Financial Times website...forums.ft.com Bush is more vulnerable to a dirty attack than you think. by Dissident 18 Oct 2004 04:45 AM Even Stevens at the moment. This looks like going to the wire. Bush is very vulnerable on the war on terror, and I wish someone would do a Willie Horton over this on him: - posner's revelations of the suppression of abu zubaydah's confession - the connections between al-qaeda and the Pakistani ISI (for example Omar Sheik's cellphone, General Mahmoud Ahmed,and Muhammad Atta) - and the US support for the ISI - see for example the connections between General Mahmoud Ahmed, the head of ISI and Muhammed Atta, and the connections between General Mahmoud Ahmed and Powell and Tenet, and the Bush administration. - the decision to let several thousand al-qaeda fighters leave the beseiged city of Kunduz on Pakistani military aircraft in November 2001. - and the crucial fact, that all these involve protecting the royal family of Saudi Arabia from US and international law, and the fact that Bush owes much of his wealth to Saudi money. Have a look at Craig Unger's book, among other sources. Bush is too dependent on Islamic fundamentalist terrorists to be able to prosecute a war against them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moral clarity ? by Ingrid 18 Oct 2004 03:50 AM Bush has been using the 9.11. incident as his top theme to win votes so far. The messy aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan are all justified under the topic of resolution to fight terrorism. The bad financial conditions are instead glossed over by praising himeself for a great job done through senseless tax cuts for the rich. In addition, his strategists kept using such key phrases as "moral clarity" to attack Kerry. For anyone with a more clear head, Bush's clarity obviously means shallow, hollow, simple-minded, reckless, unilatral, trigger-happy, wasteful pre-emptive military attacks of foreign countries under false pretexts. The American voting public at large probably do not have the wisdom to see through all the grossly misleading claims.