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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (23128)	3/16/2008 11:56:38 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 224737

Bush's Iraq scam is the single worst and most costly blunder ever for the USA, worse than Vietnam since in those days at least we had the excuse of the Cold War domino theories being perhaps viable, though they were all proven to be bogus later on. The fact is Bush-Cheney and cronies wanted to invade Iraq to grab its oil for Exxon, Chevron, Halliburton and Shell, then to jack up oil prices on us all, use the war as a scare and patriotism tactic to hold onto power through the next election, and at the same time they were willing to let Bin Laden go, give up the progress in Afghanistan, make up lies about WMD, smear anyone who questioned them with lies and shun the goodwill of the whole world. While the Vietnam War debt was humongous as we lost many more troops, the Iraq debacle debt is looking to dwarf Vietnam's, making it possible that that debt alone could destroy our economy and throw us into some kind of a stagflationary depression for the next 5+ years. Now, five years since Bushies declared "mission accomplished" we have a new mission, to make sure no Bushie or Bush-lite type leader ever has control of our military again. Frankly, we just cannot afford it.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (23128)	3/16/2008 2:32:44 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224737

ELIOT'S GAL A SHARED ASSET 'HOUSE-SITTER' & PARTY PAL TO GOV'S $$ MAN By LUKAS I. ALPERT and SAMUEL GOLDSMITH WALL STREET-WALKER: Ashley Dupre, a k a Gov. Spitzer's high-priced hooker "Kristen," was a frequent party guest at Hamptons bashes put on by hedge-fund titan and Spitzer fund-raiser James Chanos (left). Video of Gov. Gal 'Kristen'Raw Video: Behind the scenes with Ashley Alexandra Dupre during a music video shoot. March 16, 2008 -- The high-priced hooker who sunk Gov. Spitzer's political career was a party pal of one of his top financial backers, boozing it up with him at clubs and his palatial Hamptons mansion. Secret Strife Of A Hurt Wife James Chanos, 50, a billionaire hedge fund manager who runs Kynikos Associates in Manhattan, says he met Ashley Alexandra Dupre - the girl at center of the gov love scandal - at a nightclub several years ago and often invited her to parties, But he denied introducing her to Spitzer. "I know her. She's a nice person," Chanos said by phone from the Bahamas late Friday night. "She is one of many young ladies I have spent time with around town. I have had her to my home [in the Hamptons], but I never dated her and I never introduced her to Eliot Spitzer. I had no idea she was a high-priced call girl." Chanos, who was called "Uncle Jim" by Dupre, pumped close to $100,000 into Spitzer's campaigns over the past five years. He is well known on Long Island's East End for hosting weeklong Fourth of July beach parties, to which he invites scores of sultry young women. During a clambake last summer, Chanos - who is also on the board of Manhattan's elite Browning School - introduced Dupre to other partygoers as his house-sitter. "I met Ashley there. Jim said she house-sits his house," said Varshini Soobiah, who attended the party and became friends with Dupre, now 22. "This was a very formal, fine dining event. There were only limos, sitdown dinners, chefs, and fancy rooms for all guests. The girls were staying together. We were always together - changing together, going out together." Soobiah, who runs an orphanage in India, said it "never occurred to us at all" that Dupre was a hooker, but another attendee - who said she knows Dupre from the Manhattan club scene - said the young woman stood out like a sore thumb.