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Subj: The poor paying for the war Dear BuzzFlash, Cost per week = $ 1,000,000,000.00 Barrel of oil at $25.00 per. We need to pump out 40,000,000 barrels of oil per week, or approx. 5,500,000 per day. We pump 1,500,000 per day. Thus the USA is paying out of pocket expenses of 4 million barrels of oil per day. WHY??? Just look at the history of England and the USA in the middle east - there is but one conclusion - is everybody missing the mark? The WMD is not the real reason the USA and England went into Iraq. After reading about the history of the Mid-east, I believe it all started in the mid 20's, when England has the Persia Gulf under its army. Then in the 40's when Iran put all the oil fields under Iran government, the English went ballistic. Truman would not invade, and when Ike went in, he would not give the oil fields back to England. This placed England as a second ranked country that they did not like, but learned to live with it. After the relationship that Reagan had with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden did not like the US military in Saudi Arabia. I believe that the Bin Laden family let it be known that the US military must be expelled from Saudi Arabia, but how is the US to keep military presents in the mid east? Where else should they go - NORTH. Guess who lives there? If we left the mideast completely, we could easily become a second rate nation (WHICH BUSH AND COMPANY CAN NOT STAND SECOND PLACE) - as Nixon found out during the gas prices of the early 70's. If we let the UN in, then the US can not be in control of the distribution of the oil. How else - England and USA can go into Iraq, and we will have a long military presents in the mid east and we can use the argument of WMD. One major problem - this does not stop American hate around the world, which in turn fuels terror. Right now all I see more vengeance against us in the next 10 to 15 years - How can we solve this? As I see it, the extreme right political part of the country wants to eye ball to eye ball a fight with the extreme left political part of the nation. We can not meet and solve problems so US citizens can go about their daily lives. It's "MY WAY IS THE ONLY WAY". If we can learn to be tolerant of one another, then we can add to the better of the world. Right now we are sinking in our own mud, and we don't even try to see it and understand it. Thank you for letting me express my view points. Ron Aschmotat Question : IS the United States getting a lesson in ignorance and arrogance? Under Bush we will have to take the ladder of failure and then see if we can find the ladder of compassion, love, and caring of others in the world. I SAW THAT INTERVIEW ON MEET THE PRESS WITH TIM RUSSERT. CHENEY IS LYING AGAIN, WHEN HE SAYS HE ISN'T CONNECTED TO HALIBURTON. I BELIEVE THAT THE COMPANY FEELS AS THOUGH THEY HAVE THEIR MAN IN OFFICE. CHENEY AND BUSH HAVE BEEN SCHEMING EVER SINCE THEY TOOK OFFICE FOR OIL RICH COMPANIES LIKE HALLIBURTON AND OTHERS. FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO THIS COUNTRY THEY SHOULD BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE IMMEDIATELY. SENATOR GRAHAM IS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT SPEND ONE DIME OF THAT 87 BILLION DOLLARS TO HELP HALIBURTON BUILD NOTHING. Subj: White House skunk on the loose Dear Buzz, What on earth is that gawd-awful smell??? Oh, wait a minute. Of course. It's the sure and steady stink of the bush gang and their CYA policy, as they "distance" themselves from Cheney and his assertions of an Iraq/al Qaeda link to September 11. Who's next in this whistle-ass chorus line? Wolfowitz? Powell? Perle? [LINK] Cheney is transmuting into an albatross due to an onslaught of revelations of his secretive energy policy, his cynically duplicitous behavior towards Joseph Wilson, his role in pressuring the CIA to make the facts fit his fantasy, the payment from Halliburton while VP, mind-boggling exaggerations of Saddam's nuclear capabilities, and now his most recent display of cognitive dissonance on Meet the Press. Soon, he will be withdrawing his name from the ticket to "spend more time with his family" or "attend to his health." Then we Americans are supposed to nod all our empty heads in agreement and say, "Wow, who wudda thought. Good thing he's gone, he misled our poor George." Nice try. No cigar. The big skunk is still in the Oval Office, spraying away. Regards, Elaine Subj: Impeach Bush? Hey Buzz: I, too, am of the mind that Congress should impeach George W. Bush for his flagrant and serial "high crimes and misdemeanors." But then I got to wondering: "Is it possible to impeach someone who was never actually elected?" Regards, Grumpy
Norm Subj: Lies and Consequences "I am not a crook." Nixon resigned over the break-in of Democratic HQs, and the subsequent cover-up. "I did not have sex with that woman." Clinton was impeached over foreplay with another consenting adult. The GOP spent $72 million to investigate even dress stains stating; "Its not about the sex, its about the lie." "I never said Saddam was involved with 911." The Bush administration has followed its PNAC document formulated in 1997 to the letter. It is a radical, psychotic blueprint for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, deposing Saddam, and installing a police state. On page 51 of the PNAC paper its drafters; Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Abraham, Libby, et al state that they needed a "Pearl Harbor" to role out their unAmerican, unilateral, illegal schemes. They knew 911 was imminent, let our air defenses sit on the ground, and stonewalled the 911 investigation. They've put our US Treasury into a death spiral of red ink, creating the largest deficit in the history of the country, and ruining our economy. They belligerently insulted our allies, shamed our nation, knowingly sent tens of thousands of innocents to their death. They've shredded the Constitution, increased global terror, have denied US citizens needed services, while enriching their war profiteering friends with padded, sweetheart, no-bid contracts. WHERE ARE THE IMPEACHMENT PAPERS? Suzanne
de Cornelia Dear BuzzFlash, Senator Mark Dayton's idea to have all of congress be on the same Medicare program that the rest of us are is a wonderful suggestion. However, I'd like to do him one better. What about all of the congressional representatives, especially the political appointees of this administration be paid minimum wage and also participate in the social security system that everyone else contributes to as well as having the pension plans not paid by tax dollars but by investments in the stock market. It probably wouldn't take very long before the social security would become solvent and pension plans would be protected from corporate fraud and the minimum wage would become something more of a living wage. The partisan stalemates would dissolve and the best interest of the people of this country would be attended to instead of congressional power plays and bickering and worrying about how to get elected next term. I'd also like to add that I am especially upset by the fact that this country is being run by a group of neocon appointees and not elected officials not the least of whom are Karl Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and Richard Perle who are imposing their ideology on this country in policy and law which is not the will of the people of this country as expressed through duly elected representatives Jerome J
Kirsling Subj: Clark's political experience Buzz, It's only been a day since the announcement and already I am annoyed with media news of Clark's candidacy constantly being hedged by saying he has no political experience. And what great political experience did Dubya have? He was governor of a state where that position is part-time and largely ceremonial. (Gee, kind of like how he operates now, especially the part-time part--did no one point out the difference to him?). Anyway, as the Republicans keep harping that our number one concern as a nation is the War on Terra, than who better to lead it than a General. Go General Clark!!! A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Cheney's undisclosed location Buzz, I figured it out! The reason Cheney has been spouting all these lies recently is because when he is at an undisclosed location, he's in the factory for retooling and on ice (the cryogenic variety). This time when they thawed him out they forgot to feed the new information into his circuits. a BuzzFlash reader Subj: Gen. Wesley Clark Dear BuzzFlash, The smear campaign has begun against Gen. Clark from the conservative pundits and "journalists". The one line I see consistently used is that Gen. Clark has no political experience. Excuse me? The man was Supreme Commander of NATO. I would venture to say that 80% of his duties at NATO were entirely political in nature, just as Gen. Eisenhower's were as Allied Commander during WWII. So, Wesley Clark is simply following in the footsteps of a Republican president. Kay Subj: Free voting machines Dear Buzz, Hey, I have a great idea! If somehow the California recall goes ahead as designed, how about the state making it mandatory that (all voters) use the old punch card voting system? The punch card system, at least, has a paper trail. No one trusts electronic voting machines anyway. And if they don't have enough punch card systems, I'm sure the state of Florida will be happy to lend California several freight cars full of them!!!!!! ~ Cathy Subj: 3 seconds to decide Agreed. However, there is a difference between at least some of the reporters and what they deem as their mission as journalists and the businesses they work for. You should also applaud journalistic integrity when you see it. For example, Ted Koppel, I thought, displayed appropriate skepticism when reporting as an imbed and in one report downdressed another ABC veteran reporter for being overly accepting of the military and other pro-administration perspectives. Peter Jennings, in general, deserves kudos for his objectivity and willingness to question sources, particularly when information is flying during war, tragedy or other quick-moving circumstances. A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: TO THE BUZZ AND OTHERS JAY LENO HAS BECOME SO RIGHT WING THAT SCARBOROUGH CREEP IS PRACTICALLY PLAYING BACK THE WHOLE MONOLOUGE ON HIS SHOW. COME TO THINK OF IT, IT APPEARS ALL OF NBC HAS MOVED TO THE RIGHT. KATIE JOHNSON Subj: Russia BuzzFlash, I'm watching Paul McCartney playing a concert in Red Square in Moscow. President Putin is clapping along with " Hey Jude " and his KGB escort is standing up and dancing. President Putin is seated in the middle of 200,000 dancing and clapping and smiling Russians without a gun in sight ...anywhere...Nothing but dancing and laughing. Cut to recent speeches by GW Bush and the security is overwhelming with armored guards with heavy guns everywhere and barbed wire fenced off enclaves to contain the disagreeing public. Ashcroft is giving speeches only to law enforcement officials while they shred the Constitution and Bill of Rights..no print press allowed...censorship and propaganda corrupting our media outlets... What the hell is wrong with this picture..????? G. Hunkin. Subj: Runaway Bush BuzzFlash -- Why haven't more Americans noticed that whenever there is an emergency of some sort -- GW Bush bails out??? When he was in the Air Force and Viet Nam service beckoned -- he went AWOL; when Arbusto failed -- he bailed out; when Harkin failed -- someone bailed him out and he then ran off; When the Texas Rangers were going down the tubes, someone else bailed him out and he bailed; when 911 occurred, he stayed aloft or shuttling between Air Force bases. now Hurricane Isabella gets within 600 miles of Washington and guess who runs again -- the pResident, the unelected fraud, the tough talking Shrub -- "Bring 'em on -- I won't be there doing the actual fighting but your sons and daughters will." If I was A Democratic candidate for anything my campaign slogan would be..."Hey George, you want a fight...bring it on." Once you challenge a coward, they always retreat...something Bush has had much practice doing. Keep up the good work... Tony Mac Subj: War Crimes It has been shown time and time again that the Bush administration lied about the reasons the U.S. had to invade Iraq. The WMD's apparently do not exist, and most likely have not existed since the Gulf War of 1991. Prior to that date the U.S. was supplying Iraq with huge amounts of war hardware and support. Our military industrial complex was, and is, the major supplier of weapons to the Middle East countries, irregardless of whether they love us or hate us or whom they may be attacking at the present moment, or whether massive human rights violations are occurring in their countries or not. The estimates of war dead ( Iraqi ) are about 37,000+ and the innocents killed are estimated at 3000+. Now we are being told that the Bush administration never stated that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 which is nonsense. The Uranium - Niger statements were known to be false at the time they were uttered... The UN inspectors and the world community, under the UN flag, were poised to contain Saddam Hussein which was disallowed by the Bush administration, and replaced by invasion and the present quagmire. It is time for the world community to indict G.W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Condi Rice, Bolton, and even Colin Powell for War crimes and Crimes against Humanity. This administration needs to be stopped before they undermine a half century of peace building and lead us into another World War. If the U.S. cannot control the Neo-Con coup d'etat and the theft of democracy, it is time for the world to act. G. Hunkin Subj: Senator Kennedy Dear Buzz- Senator Kennedy has courageously gone before the cameras in a news conference to state the obvious: Bush War & Oil Inc.'s Iraq Attack was a fraud. He will be vilified, pilloried, shredded and mutilated by the Shrillanestas. Everyone please send him an email, or contact his office (the Congressional toll-free switchboard number is 800-839-5276.) Thank him for being a true patriot and a genuine Profile in Courage. In addition to his relentlessly hard work in the Senate, apparently his daughter Kara's cancer struggle is taking a real toll. Let's support this great man who is always on the side of the people. Thank you, Suzanne Subj: Burning the Old Library Card Hi Buzz, Please contact the author of the essay "Burning the Old Library Card" (18 Sep) and urge him (or her) to immediately contact the local library director about this encounter with the library's "Information Systems Coordinator". Please reassure your correspondent that no responsible librarian would EVER tolerate this sort of behavior towards any library patron. If this claim can be proven, I predict that the library director will run this employee off so fast that the clocks will run backwards for the rest of the afternoon--and that's STILL not fast enough for any of the librarians I know. I hope that your correspondent will write up the results of this process for the pages of the mighty Buzz'. Thanks again for this wonderful website... JColbert Subj: 9/11 Dear Buzz, Now that Bush and Co has admitted Saddam had no connection with 9/11 some of the responsibility for the deaths of our troops in Iraq must be on the media for their complicity in promoting Bush and on the Supreme Court for stopping the recount. They need to be held accountable along with Bush and the rest of his abominable crew. I even hold the people who donate huge amounts of money to the Bush campaign responsible. May they and all others who supported this creep never again sleep in peace. Moneecat Subj: How to hide an $87 billion debt by pretending it's off the books. Buzz,
A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Supply Side Jesus - kudos!! OMG, Supply Side Jesus is great!! Please bring more of his adventures! If I had more money I would commission the author to do a whole book of these! Tim Vasquez Subj: Why it was only a "3 week" war BuzzFlash, This August 2002 article might explain why he declared the war "over " after 3 weeks, when it clearly is not.
Cheney never planned on getting approval, which is clear from his 1991 speech.
This speech is full of contradictions to his present position. You have to read it and post it. Susan Cohen Subj: Gen. Clark Devastated. Dear BuzzFlash, Tom Delay called Gen. Wesley Clark "a blow-dried Napoleon." I am certain the General was thrown into a major depression after being taunted by "the Ken doll coiffured roach motel (when roaches check in, they don't check out) proprietor" whose brain is soaked with so much DDT the sweat of his brow could gag a maggot. I hear George Will called the NATO operation that Clark commanded in Bosnia, " the liberals' dream war" with the goal to "have zero U.S. casualties". He didn't really say that, did he? Hooray, Dubya, Rummy and whoever is commanding in Iraq, at this moment, are winning and piling up more dead G.I.s everyday. Go ahead Gen Clark and Bill Clinton thrown in the towel and declare Bush/Rumsfeld the winners in the death contest so they can get our guys back home. Have they gotten as many killed since Dubya declared that something was over in Iraq than were killed in Bosnia? What was it he declared finished? I forget, but it obviously wasn't the killing of our guys or the danger or the terrorism or even the electrical blackout in Iraq? Oh, I know he declared the danger over for the guys and gals aboard the Lincoln, at least until they set sail for another tour over there. It's certainly the dream of this liberal to have a war where no one dies, especially not our guys. We could just throw Rummy, Cheney, Dubya, Saddam and Osama in a ring and let them beat each other senseless. Or we could handcuff Delay and Will together and put them in a ring with a couple of irate Brahma bulls. I would pay big bucks for a double header like that. Karen Webb, Moore, Ok. RE: Bush Admin distancing themselves from Cheney Erik Raske's comments are right on the mark. I tip my hat to you, sir. But as masterfully embittered as it is, I'm not sure Erik's take is quite cynical enough. Hanging Slithering Dick out to dry has a lot of positives for the Bush administration. 1. Right now Cheney's the most high profile liar of the liars out there, thanks to his stellar performance on Eat the Press this past weekend. 2. We can only assume his Energy Task Force documents contain some pretty damning evidence that will make the Bush Admin seem even more craven and venal than they already do. 3. If GW cans Cheney's ass in very public way, the president will appear decisive and honest, two things of which he's in woefully short supply. (Hey, it worked in Casablanca: I am Shocked. Shocked that there is gambling going on here.) 4. Crucify away - Slithering Dick won't care. He's already raking in the dough from Halliburton, so losing this two-bit second-fiddle VP gig will mean nothing to him. Anyhow, he'll make an additional bundle as a talking head in the Republican make-work program for convicted felons (Fox News, talk radio, advisory position for the Department of Defense). 5. It clears the deck for GW to find a more credible candidate to run for VP...perhaps a handsome, moderate retired four-star general with impeccable military credentials. A Republican Wesley Clark, if you will. Rove-ian enough for you? Sometimes I'm amazed I can sleep at night. Lynne Keeley Subj: DNC Kicks its Own Tail Dear BuzzFlash: I'll be sure to write the wussy ninnies over at the DNC and tell them what I think about their refusing to link BuzzFlash to their new, faux-gutsy site. Assertiveness-lite is a (nother!) ticket to disaster... I'll send a donation to you over this and NOT to the dnc. Really. Richard
Russell Newton Subj: I wrote to my Senator Dear Friends, I wrote to one of my senators today and told him that I remember Donald Rumsfeld implying that there WAS a 911 link to Saddam. At the time, before we went to war, the news commentator was asking Rumsfeld why we needed to go to war right away. Rumsfeld stated that we needed to attack Iraq right away to avoid another 911 attack on us. Now, all of a sudden, the Bush administration is saying there WAS NO LINK between Saddam and 911. This type of mixed message will not be tolerated. I think there should be impeachment proceedings of this president. I encourage people to contact their congress reps and senators at www.senate.gov and www.house.gov. MV Subj: Saudi Connection Is anyone out there researching the possibility of Saudi money in Bush's reelection war chest... and the fiasco of 2000 for that matter? Inquiring BuzzFlash reader wants to know! Lu |
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