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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (731043)	3/11/2006 5:50:50 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Have you forgotten this headline around the world.... "An Amazed World Watches a Superpower’s Sluggish Response to Disaster at Home"

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (731043)	3/11/2006 5:51:27 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 769670

Have you forgotten this headline around the world.... "An Amazed World Watches a Superpower’s Sluggish Response to Disaster at Home" debka.com

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (731043)	3/11/2006 5:54:04 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Applaud McCain??? - McCain was one of the "Keating Five," congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips. Charles Keating was convicted of racketeering and fraud in both state and federal court after his Lincoln Savings & Loan collapsed, costing the taxpayers $3.4 billion. His convictions were overturned on technicalities; for example, the federal conviction was overturned because jurors had heard about his state conviction, and his state charges because Judge Lance Ito (yes, that judge) screwed up jury instructions. Neither court cleared him, and he faces new trials in both courts.) Though he was not convicted of anything, McCain intervened on behalf of Charles Keating after Keating gave McCain at least $112,00 in contributions. In the mid-1980s, McCain made at least 9 trips on Keating's airplanes, and 3 of those were to Keating's luxurious retreat in the Bahamas. McCain's wife and father-in-law also were the largest investors (at $350,000) in a Keating shopping center; the Phoenix New Times called it a "sweetheart deal."

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (731043)	3/11/2006 8:29:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Cheney Admitted UAE Backed Saddam Despite UN Sanctions TRANSCRIPT FROM THE VP DEBATE W/ SENATOR LIEBERMAN, 10/6/00 MR. SHAW: This question is for you, Mr. Secretary. If Iraq's President Saddam Hussein were found to be developing weapons of mass destruction, Governor Bush has said he would "take him out." Would you agree with such a deadly policy? MR. CHENEY: We might have no other choice. We'll have to see if that happens. The thing about Iraq, of course, was at the end of the war we had pretty well decimated their military. We had put them back in a box, so to speak. We had a strong international coalition raid against them, effective economic sanctions and a very robust inspection regime that was in place. So that the inspection regime under U.N. auspices was able to do a good job of stripping out the capacity to build weapons of mass destruction -- the work that he'd been doing that had not been destroyed during the war on biological, chemical agents as well as a nuclear program. Unfortunately, now we find ourselves in a situation where that's started to fray on us, where the coalition now no longer is tied tightly together. Recently the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, two Gulf states, have reopened diplomatic relations with Baghdad. The Russians and the French now are flying commercial airliners back into Baghdad and sort of thumbing their nose, if you will, at the international sanctions regime. And of course the U.N. inspectors have been kicked out. And there's been absolutely no response.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (731043)	3/11/2006 8:35:40 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 769670

Bush "decent"? Try corrupt, criminal, inept and deceptive. You can't make a single major issue where Bush has leveled with the American People. You can't name a single big budgetary bitem where he hasn't enriched his close cronies at our expense. And you can't name a single election he hasn't grossly cheated and lied to win. Just today comes news that two of his top people resigned, one because he was caught stealing from Target stores, the other because she was caught taking bribes from Abramoff. Then there's the illegally domestic spying, Plamegate, the Iraq WMD lies, the bungling of Katrina, the covering up of true cost of Medicare, oh Jesus, why bother listing them all, it just goes on and on and on. You must be joking to call Bush and his followers "decent". We'd be better off with Tony Soprano in charge. At least he'd get results.