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

To: American Spirit who wrote (74427)	3/11/2006 4:46:49 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Remember folks what Bush said was the reason for going into Iraq: not links with Osama. It was WMDs. When that did not hold, he then said that it was because Saddam was a butcher having killed his own people. Then he told us that it was to spread democracy. I have not heard from him about Osama-Saddam link. His agents (fascist right wing bloggers) may be saying that. But I am not aware of his going on record saying that Osama-Saddam had any link or let us say the Al Qaeda folks having any links with Saddam's agents. So IMHO, you folks are talking about something which is false.

To: American Spirit who wrote (74427)	3/11/2006 5:02:12 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 81568

Saddam invite OBL to live in Iraq.

To: American Spirit who wrote (74427)	3/11/2006 5:42:49 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

ONE WICKED WITCH DOWN.... Interior Secretary Gail Norton to Resign The Associated Press Friday 10 March 2006 Washington - Interior Secretary Gale Norton is resigning after five years in President Bush's Cabinet, The Associated Press has learned. Norton, a former Colorado attorney general who guided the Bush administration's initiative to open Western government lands to more oil and gas drilling, planned to announce her decision Friday, a senior government official and another source familiar with her decision told the AP. Both spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to upstage an announcement from the White House. Norton told associates she wanted to return to private life in Colorado, the source said. One of the architects of Bush's energy policy, Norton eased regulations to speed approval of drilling permits, particularly in New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming's Powder River Basin. She also was the administration's biggest advocate for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on Alaska's North Slope to oil drilling. Norton, who turns 52 on Saturday, is the first woman ever to head the Interior Department. Before joining the administration, she was one of the negotiators of a $206 billion national tobacco settlement in a suit by Colorado and 45 other states. She was Colorado's attorney general from 1991 to 1999.

To: American Spirit who wrote (74427)	3/21/2006 1:12:43 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

If only we hadn't found documents in Iraq stating the point of meeting with Al Qaeda, which Iraq did, you might have something. You still are talking about the lies Clinton told, the evidence presented in Clintons time, the conclusion of Clinton (i.e about the same as Bush's), and blaming Bush for creating some imaginary lie. If an article reports that there has been 1 confirmed deserter in Iraq since the war started, you claim there have been 8000. Who's doing the misrepresenting here? You and yours. You make statements with nothing to back you up. Simply Ludicrous. Islamic fundamentalist types in Iraq wanted to try to wipe out Kurds, as an example. So show me the chart detailing Saddams killings which backs up your claim that his butchery was 90% aimed at fundamentalists? Hell, it'd be more accurate to say he supported one brand of fundamentalists against another brand of fundamentalists 90% of the time. Fact is, in America we fundamentally believe in freedom, and it is perhaps MOST accurate to say that 90% of Saddam's butchery was against folk who believed somewhat as we do. Well known meetings between Iraq and Al Qaeda render your "view" that Saddam wanted to kill Osama rather than offer him asylum as was reported well before Bush's time, specious as hell, as does the fact that extremist terrorists were harbored in Iraq over the years (not to mention the extremist Palestinians encouraged with Saddam's money). Yet you ask us to believe he butchered mainly the very "fundamentalist" types which we in fact KNOW he supported again and again. You've been sold a HUGE bill of goods. Dan B.