[marsis]

Have you heard about the French book that just made the news,(you won't find much here about it)? Supposedly, Bush stopped investigations into al Qeada, the Saudis, and terrorism as early as last February so they could deal with the Taliban over the now famous pipeline across Afghanistan. Add to that the interesting story of one of our CIA operatives actually meeting with Bin Laden in an American hospital in Dubai, in July (right before the WTC). You want to demonize something, demonize the political system that brought us this garbage. Reagan, Clinton, Bush SR. and Bush Jr. are up to their eyeballs in this mess. But you choose to misdirect, shine the light on Clinton as the only one who failed. I make no apologies for Clinton, but he is only one player of the four mentioned above. Then look at Congress, these people do not have our best interests at heart, none of them. The monies floating through the political system is killing us. Just like the Enron scandal, place blame only on Clinton, close your eyes to the realities of politic process in the USA.

And nice try on the marxist thing, I guess "boltfromblue" must have something to do with running from the good old red white and blue. Traitor...hey, isn't this name calling thing fun.

[boltfromblue]

I like your imaginative response, to our names, but I saw not only deception about BC, with no comment about his self-serving speech, but in effect his own apologia in the text. Think lightning bolt, BTW. Your going after oil theory is tiresome from Vietnam onwards. I suggest Communism, as we did before in Afghanistan w/o oil as payment if you recall. I do remember when a CIA operative met with bin Ladin, but exactly what can you deduct from this other than gathering information, as many are doing now. You do remember that the offers to get him were ignored in the BC Administration, if not repulsed, so this may have been a half-way step to get more from him.