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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: paret who wrote (67815)	10/1/2005 5:36:05 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

No Newsmax please, but - Delay is the big crook running congress. Pelosi PAC infractions (if true) are tiny compared to Delay's, and DElay personally pockets the cash and lavish trips. I have not heard any evidence of Pelosi taking a dime. Delay for instance paid his wife $500,000 of lobbyists money. That's like paying himself. And as if she earned it. Pelosi does have one small black mark. Her aide took a questionable $8500 trip to Asia. But that's what such a trip actually costs. Delay spent over $100,000 taking one trip to Scotland which a foreign oil lobbyist paid for. Illegal and outlandish. Pelosi personally does not have any ethics violations, just an aide of hers a very minor one. I would not trust anything Newsmax prints. They have lied many times before. Mountain vs. molehill.

To: paret who wrote (67815)	10/1/2005 11:22:45 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

The shape of things to come in Iraq. Its disintegration into three countries is already rearing its head. It was known in 2000 that Bush's knowledge was zilch, zero, nada in foreign affairs. It is showing for sure on Iraq. His father on the other hand along with Colin Powell showed his brilliance in foreign affairs, thanks to his experience as Ambassador to China and his experience in the CIA. Iraq PM denies monopolising power October 2, 2005 - 8:09AM Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has dismissed accusations by the country's president that he was monopolising power. President Jalal Talabani, a Kurdish leader, this week accused Jaafari, his Shi'ite partner in the governing coalition, of violating agreements with the Kurds by making unilateral decisions. Jaafari told reporters on Saturday that he was too busy running the government to respond. "This is not the time for my personal reaction. My time is limited to serving my country. I head the government," he said. Political tensions have been rising ahead of December elections as Iraq's new Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders consolidate their positions and Arab Sunnis, who lost power after Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003, try to regain some influence. Shi'ites and Kurds, who swept to power in January elections, have been trying to persuade Arab Sunnis to support a draft constitution in a bid to defuse the Sunni insurgency. But Sunnis, who largely boycotted the polls, have vowed to bring down the charter by voting "No" in the referendum. smh.com.au