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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (537)	11/23/2004 9:39:55 PM
From: lorne	Respond to of 224749

You said...." You've posted post invasion numbers.....I posted pre-invasion numbers which showed that the US was buying about 50% of Saddam's oil "...... The information you posted is completely unreliable. Considering the UN oil for food scandal and the fact that the corrupt UN was doing everything possible to make the USA look bad just before the invasion of Iraq. I posted to you and for your information the DOE web site that has accurate information on oil imports to the USA before and after Iraq invasion. You choose to play silly word games instead of going to the web site I provided you and educating yourself as to oil imports to the USA....I suspect you are not really interested in learning anything but want only too do what liberal thinkers do best..... not think at all, never learn, just keep bitching. Here are a couple of quotes from the biased UN article you posted and which you believe to be accurate. Saturday, February 22, 2003 ......" UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 21 -- American oil refineries have dramatically increased their reliance on Iraqi crude, even as the Bush administration steps up preparations for a military attack against Baghdad, to offset a shortfall in oil imports caused by a recent political crisis in Venezuela."..... ...." The United States has more than doubled its consumption of Iraqi crude over the past two months, buying more than $1.6 billion in Iraqi oil through foreign middlemen between Dec. 5 and Feb. 1, according to unpublished U.N. figures."..... Message 20779656

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (537)	11/23/2004 10:19:40 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224749

shepard. IMO here is an example of what liberal thinking and laws have done to a free and tolerant society. And of course it has cost innocent lives. Racial-profiling concerns hurt counterterror efforts? FBI agent who wrote famous pre-9/11 memo about Osama using flight schools speaks out November 22, 2004 The FBI agent who wrote a pre-9/11 memo warning about terrorists from Middle Eastern countries training at U.S. flight schools says government officials didn't take action in response to his letter due to concerns about racial profiling. Ken Williams spoke to the Arizona Republic Saturday – his first interview since the now-famous memo was written. "If you look at the world prior to 9-11, we were prevented from doing certain things," he told the paper. "We were victimized by our own restraints." According to the report, Williams said he never blamed supervisors for what has been described as an intelligence failure. "Intelligence is not an exact science," he said. "I tell people it is like drinking from a fire hydrant." Racial profiling – the targeting of people for investigation based on ethnicity – is opposed by many activists and elected officials who consider it discriminatory. Williams, a Phoenix FBI agent, warned in his memo, dated July 10, 2001, that Osama bin Laden was using flight schools to train terrorists. His prediction was based on investigations of local aviation students in the Phoenix area tied to al-Qaida. In the memo, he recommended that the State Department coordinate with the FBI to give information on flight students from Middle Eastern countries. Saying terrorists "are going to try and hit us again," the agent also told the Republic Americans must reclaim the sense of unity and purpose that gripped the nation three years ago to thwart the next terrorist attack. "We are in a war with people o really want to hurt us," he told the paper. "In my opinion, it is not over." worldnetdaily.com