SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (737696)4/24/2006 12:58:56 PM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
<<jimmy carter gas lines and 22% interest>>

All of which disappeared overnight when Reagan eliminated price controls. Then it was the Reagan Oil Glut.

The Dems are willing to bring stagflation back to satisfy their bond whore constituents and make the populists "feel good". That's why they oppose ANWAR drilling...



To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (737696)4/24/2006 12:59:49 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
On 60 minutes tonight:

White House knew there were no WMD: CIA

...The source "told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs," Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on Sunday on the US network's 60 Minutes.

"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as saying in interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday.

"We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change'," added Drumheller, whose CIA operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi official.

He was the latest former US official to accuse the White House of setting an early course toward war in Iraq and ignoring intelligence that conflicted with its aim.

CBS said the CIA's intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the information personally to US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top White House officials in September 2002. They rebuffed the CIA three days later.

"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy," the former CIA agent told CBS...

smh.com.au



To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (737696)4/24/2006 1:27:47 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
Carter didn't go into IRAQ or IRAN for the oil
your arguement is not whole, as Bush has been promising to take care or our energy problems and has taken the nation and the world into dangerous territory by DEstabilizing the world's oil areas.
Iraq is now, thanks to the 'invasion' putting out FAR less oil (and of course bush promised to make sure that didn't happen), Iran is now another evil empire, more taxes have been cut for OIL companies who now drain OUR economy with disgusting price gouging for gasoline bases on their oligarchy