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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (53639)	2/12/2006 5:04:58 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

a fortune on the BACKS OF TAXPAYERS... why? CONNECTIONS FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL GAIN....

To: tonto who wrote (53639)	2/12/2006 6:32:41 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 93284

Bush was a figurehead with the Texas Rangers--mostly the political connection that helped get the new stadium built, at taxpayer expense. If my memory is correct they traded Sammy Sosa when he was around. Truth be know, however, I think the only--repeat, only--way I like Bush is when it comes to baseball.

To: tonto who wrote (53639)	2/12/2006 6:41:25 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

Bush Pentagon Fails To Protect Troops From IED's Using Available New Bomb-Buster. Not a single unit shipped to Iraq though it passed tests with flying colors a year ago. Clearly, the lives of our troopps are not a Bush priority. Never were. Never will be. "A new high-tech vehicle that destroys roadside bombs has passed a series of U.S. military tests but has not yet been sent into battle, prompting charges that Pentagon bureaucracy is slowing the effort to protect American troops in Iraq. Last April, Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, the commander of a Pentagon task force in charge of finding ways to combat the makeshift bombs known as improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, endorsed development of the vehicle, called the Joint IED Neutralizer. The remote-controlled device blows up roadside bombs with a directed electrical charge, and based on Votel's assessment, then-deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz recommended investing $30 million in research and sending prototypes to Iraq for testing. But 10 months later -- and after a prototype destroyed about 90% of the IEDs laid in its path during a battery of tests -- not a single JIN has been shipped to Iraq."