Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11.
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| Sun, 01-11-2004 - 11:31am |
>"The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes."<
CBS already has the complete discussion on their 60 Minutes site..............
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
>"O'Neill, who served nearly two years in Bush's Cabinet, was asked to resign by the White House in December 2002 over differences he had with the president's tax cuts. O'Neill was the main source for "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind."<
>"Suskind cited a Pentagon document titled "Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," which, he said, outlines areas of oil exploration. "It talks about contractors around the world from ... 30, 40 countries and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq.""<
>"O'Neill also said in the book that President Bush "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people" during Cabinet meetings.
One-on-one meetings were no different, O'Neill told the network.
Describing his first such meeting with Bush, O'Neill said, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage on. ... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. It was mostly a monologue.""<
Quotes are from article at the link below..............
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/index.html
Very interesting!


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Every day the market goes up, and the jobless claims go down,
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A former Clinton official even stated that O'Neil was in over his head if he didnt understand that every administration puts plans such as those into effect as soon as possible.
The information from O'Neil is nothing new, but is being rehashed as such....Leslie Stahl...newsflash...Bush is a Republican *gasp*.
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Well we wouldnt have to even talk about him if Clinton had taken the deal for him one of the four separate times Sudan offered it to the administration.
<< It's good to have dreams! >>
You should know...you keep dreaming that one of those dolts running under the Democratic side have a hope of defeating Bush.
Also, read the interesting article in BusinessWeek about NAFTA, and you will see what a total failure this has turned out to be, not to mention a major enabler of corporations sending their jobs offshore.
"growing"?
I am curious....what would you propose to create jobs? Nobody has been able to come up with a winning formula as yet.
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>"I am curious....what would you propose to create jobs? Nobody has been able to come up with a winning formula as yet."<
One step would be not sending
The reason is so that american companies can be competetive on a cost basis with companies that manufacture in India, China, etc., where the labor is 1/10 the cost of here in the US.
The only way to compete, is to reduce the pay to manufacturing sector jobs here at home, and do you think the unions would ever allow that?
It is a very severe catch 22.
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