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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (680927)	4/28/2005 3:37:47 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The whole world is in their cross hairs if they have WMD!" Good thinking man! "A Texan man with ties to white supremacists has pleaded guilty to possessing chemical weapons in one of the most serious cases of domestic terrorism since Oklahoma City. But the media has all but ignored the story. We examine why. In the Texan town of Tyler law enforcement officials found what hundreds of investigators in Iraq have been looking for months. A Tyler man named William Krar with ties to white supramacists had built a sodium cynanide bomb. In the words of the Justice Department, the man had developed his own chemical weapons. In addition he had a well-stocked arsenal reportedly with 500,000 rounds of ammunition. He and his wife plead guilty two weeks ago to a series of weapons charges. According to the Texas TV station CBS 11, this case lead federal officials to launch one of its most extensive investigations of domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing. Hundreds of subpoenas have been reportedly sent out. Documents seized indicated there may be other co-conspirators across the country. And the threat was deemed great enough to appear in the President’s daily briefing. But strangely the story is mostly unknown to almost anyone outside of Texas because the national media has all but ignored the story." informationclearinghouse.info Oh never mind.....try this one on for size..... "The United States stockpile of unitary lethal chemical warfare munitions consists of various rockets, projectiles, mines, and bulk items containing blister agents (mustard H, HD, HT) and nerve agents (VX, GB). About 60% of this stockpile is in bulk storage containers; 40% is stored in munitions, many of which are now obsolete. The stockpile is stored at eight sites throughout the Continental US (Edgewood Chemical Activity, MD; Anniston Chemical Activity, AL; Blue Grass Chemical Activity, KY; Newport Chemical Depot, IN; Pine Bluff Chemical Activity, AR; Pueblo Chemical Depot, CO; Deseret Chemical Activity, UT; and Umatilla Chemical Depot, OR) and at one site outside of the Continental US on Johnston Atoll. " fas.org So.........should the USA be in its own crosshairs? I think so. I really think the USA should attack itself and rid itself of WMDs lest it look like the hypocrite it really is. oh never mind, try this one on for size: raf.mod.uk or this: telegraph.co.uk www1.va.gov videomachete.org pathguy.com ___________________________________________ ARE YOU REALLY WORTH RESPONDING TO OR ARE YOU JUST A TYPICAL AMERICAN ASSHOLE?

To: sandintoes who wrote (680927)	4/28/2005 4:24:25 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"The whole world is in their cross hairs if they have WMD!" Only where they have the capability of DELIVERING the weapon. (You don't seriously believe that it's 'up to France', do you? That's just silly. France is hardly in a position to be 'policeman of the world'.)

To: sandintoes who wrote (680927)	4/28/2005 4:26:08 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Chemical Plant Antiterrorism Bill Gains Backing in Senate April 28, 2005 By ERIC LIPTON nytimes.com WASHINGTON, April 27 - Support is growing in the Senate for legislation requiring that chemical plants be better defended against terrorist attacks. During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, every witness - including a former top Bush administration adviser on homeland security and the chairwoman of a federal chemical safety board - argued that national regulatory standards are needed for 15,000 high-risk chemical facilities that are near where tens of millions of Americans live. "Of all the various remaining civilian vulnerabilities in America today, one stands alone as uniquely deadly, pervasive and susceptible to terrorist attack: toxic-inhalation-hazard industrial chemicals," said Richard A. Falkenrath, the former deputy homeland security adviser to the White House. Senator Susan M. Collins, a Maine Republican who is chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, ended the hearing by announcing that she was committed to presenting legislation and moving it forward. "Chemical security has not received the attention that it deserves given the vulnerability involved," she said. "We do need strong federal legislation in this area." There have been at least two major pushes since the Sept. 11 attacks to enhance chemical plant security through federal legislation. But the bills were blocked, in part because of opposition by the chemical industry. Currently, operators of chemical plants are not required to evaluate vulnerabilities and construct better defenses against attack. "How this could still be off the list of priorities three plus years after 9/11 is simply quite extraordinary," said Stephen E. Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander who testified Wednesday. "Why produce a chemical weapon and then go through the very difficult task of smuggling it into the United States when there is a vast inventory of them available at chemical plants?" Senator Jon S. Corzine, a New Jersey Democrat who led the effort on one of the earlier measures, said during the hearing on Wednesday that he was prepared to support a bill that would not try to force plants in some urban areas to modify the chemicals or processing methods they use, a provision in his first bill that was vehemently opposed by industry. "We run the risk of the perfect being the enemy of the good," Mr. Corzine said in an interview. Instead, witnesses said Wednesday, plant owners could be encouraged to take such steps voluntarily, perhaps by allowing them to adopt less expensive security measures if they changed their operations to reduce chemical hazards. For example, in Washington, the local sewage treatment plant switched from using extremely toxic chlorine gas to sodium hypochlorite, a much less hazardous treatment. The American Chemistry Council - which represents the operators of 2,040 chemical facilities, including those owned by three industry giants, Dow, 3M and DuPont - already has voluntary security standards that all of its members have agreed to comply with by this summer. The Department of Homeland Security has been evaluating antiterrorism protections at 300 of the nation's highest-risk plants, moving to create secure zones to prevent attacks from outside the standard fences. But it cannot mandate these security improvements. Kate McGloon, a spokeswoman for the Chemistry Council, said the organization welcomed a move by Congress to mandate a national plant security standard. But on Tuesday, the Edison Electric Institute, which represents electric utilities, sent out an e-mail message to its members that included a position paper prepared by industry representatives calling for opposition to a proposal on Wednesday by Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, that would mandate heightened plant security measures and require that some facilities reduce hazards by switching to alternative chemicals. The House measure would "disrupt ongoing industry-government security operations," the document said. The measure was defeated in the House Homeland Security Committee, 16 to 12. At present, said Carolyn W. Merritt, chairwoman of the United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, far too many plants and communities are unprepared for a chemical accident or attack. "The time for planning is now, not after a tragedy," she said. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company