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

To: goldworldnet who wrote (723110)	1/27/2006 12:21:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

You have to watch this clip: media.michellemalkin.com What is going through her head? DOWD LOVES CLINTON'S "ENDEARING" LIES Brad Wilmouth at Newsbusters has the full transcript and more: Olbermann: "Who has enabled this? I mean, in a perverse way, is it almost necessary to say that Bill Clinton paved the way for George Bush to conduct a kind of fingers-in-his-ears, shout la-la-la-la-la presidency?" Dowd: "No, they're two entirely different things because when Bill Clinton would deceive, he would throw in a semantic clue that let you know he was deceiving. 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman.' We knew what he meant by that. You know, 'I did not,' about dope, 'I didn't break the laws of this country.' So it was sort of poignant and endearing. He would let you know he was lying, and then the right wing would come down so hard on him and overpunish him. And in the case of Bush, he's just in a completely different reality. You know, they call us the 'reality-based community,' and they create their own reality, and so Bush is just in a bubble. And when you're in the bubble, you don't know you're in the bubble." michellemalkin.com

To: goldworldnet who wrote (723110)	1/27/2006 2:49:23 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Iran in Deal with Georgia to Ease Its Utility Crisis January 27, 2006 By C. J. CHIVERS nytimes.com MOSCOW, Jan. 27 — The government of Georgia said today that it had entered into an agreement with Iran to purchase natural gas, potentially easing a heat and electricity shortage that has chilled Georgia's people and slowed its economy since last weekend. Details of the arrangement, which could send Iranian gas through Azerbaijan to Georgia as soon as Sunday, were limited. Georgian officials declined to discuss the price for the new supply, or whether transit fees would be paid to Azerbaijan. The deal was a temporary agreement that diversified Georgia's sources of energy, the officials said, and would help end a crisis that began last Sunday when saboteurs destroyed pipelines and a power line that brought energy to the small Caucasus nation. The anticipated Iranian supply, 2 million cubic meters a day, would provide slightly less than half of Georgia's needs. "This is a deal that is suitable for Georgia," George Arveladze, chief of staff to President Mikheil Saakashvili, said by telephone from Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. "Bringing in the alternative source is what matters most, and the deal is good." The announcement came as Russia's effort to repair a damaged pipeline into Georgia continued to suffer delays, and as a Web site representing Islamic militant groups in the region posted an apparent message from the insurgents saying they were not involved. A spokesman for a regional branch of Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir A. Ivanov, said that about 10 yards of the pipeline had been found to have microfractures and would have to be replaced. "If nothing else interferes, the first gas will be pumped on Sunday," he said. Georgian energy supplies have been limited since last Sunday, when bombs destroyed sections of the two Russian pipelines that brought all of Georgia's natural gas over the Caucasus ridge, and another pair of bombs downed a power transmission line that brought in part of Georgia's electricity. The blasts, following a pricing dispute between Russia and Ukraine that led to Russia cutting off gas for Ukraine early this month, further sullied Russia's image as a reliable energy supplier. The problems intensified when Russia's gas monopoly, Gazprom, announced it could not send gas via an alternate route through Azerbaijan because it was having technical problems with a compressor. Most Georgian households were left without gas as temperatures at night fell below 20 degrees. The crisis deepened on Thursday when high winds severed power lines carrying electricity from Georgia's hydropower dams, causing widespread blackouts. Georgia's deputy energy minister, Aleko Khetaguri, said today that he thought repairs to the lines would take a week. Russia has blamed terrorists for the sabotage on its territory, noting that the area of the explosions is a region where underground Islamic groups collaborate with separatists in nearby Chechnya. The Islamists themselves denied a role, on a Web site used by Chechen separatists and the groups that work with them. The message, which the Web site said it received on Thursday and whose veracity could not be confirmed, instead suggested that the sabotage could have been conducted by Russia to punish Georgia for its pro-Western policies, as Georgian politicians have also suggested. "There are sufficient grounds to argue that the gas pipes were blown up by Russian special forces, for concrete political reasons," the message read. The Web site, whose statements in the past have varied from verifiably accurate to demonstrably absurd, offered no evidence of Russian involvement. Andrew Kramer contributed reporting for this article. * Copyright 2006The New York Times Company