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

To: steve harris who wrote (66552)	7/31/2006 4:08:47 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 93284

Iranians were marching in SUPPORT of the US after 9-11. The country was moderating. We could have worked with them. Instead, Bush delivered that imbecilic and inaccurate Axis Of Evil speech and drove Iran into extremist hands, while at the same time making iranian extremist Iran ally Al Sadr the most powerful man in Iraq. Bush is responsible for this crisis. At least most of it.

To: steve harris who wrote (66552)	7/31/2006 6:01:28 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Soldier died from body armour shortage [When Dumbya was told this news, he told Poodle Blair to just flush the toilet and forget about the "shit".....] LONDON (Reuters) - A British soldier ordered to give up his body armour two days before the invasion of Iraq died because he was not wearing it, an official military board of inquiry found on Monday. The death of Sergeant Stephen Roberts, accidentally shot by his own troops while manning a checkpoint during the 2003 invasion, caused media outrage back home after it emerged he had been ordered to give up his body armour because of shortages. The board of inquiry which presented its findings on Monday confirmed that the bullet-proof plates of his Enhanced Combat Body Armour would have saved him if he had not given them up. "Had Sergeant Roberts been wearing correctly fitting and fitted ECBA (as originally issued to him and then withdrawn on 20 March 2003) when this incident unfolded, he would not have been fatally injured by the rounds that struck him," it said. "The Board judges it unfortunate that the lack of ECBA ... did not receive timely attention at the appropriate level within the MoD (Ministry of Defence)," it said. The report found that generals had identified a need for extra body armour but ordering it was held up in 2002 by "political constraints" because the government did not want to be seen to be arming for an invasion. Some equipment went missing because of logistical snafus, including bar code labels on shipments that rubbed off and could not be read. The report said the government has since imposed a policy of making sure that all soldiers in theatres of operation have the appropriate body armour when they arrive, and the military has improved its logistics. The Ministry of Defence said it would take the report's recommendations on board. "Where improvements have not already been made in line with these recommendations, the MoD is taking steps to address them," it said in a statement.

To: steve harris who wrote (66552)	7/31/2006 6:04:26 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

Maybe you have been completely brainwashed, but post 9/11, there was a massive pro-US rally in Tehran. These days, any massive rallies in Iran are necessarily anti-US.... There is nobody else to "thank" for this situation, other than Dumbya and his neocon men.