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05 Sep 2004 10:29:12 PM |
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US Afghanistan Commander: Bush Siphoned Resource in 2002 To Fight in Iraq |
Osama Bin Forgotten!
http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/09/05/graham_franks/index.html
Senator: Commander told of military drain
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By William C. Mann
alt.politics.gw-bush,seattle.politics,alt.atheism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Sept. 5, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former Senate Intelligence
Committee chairman asserted Sunday that the general who ran the war in
Afghanistan said more than a year before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
that his resources were being shifted in preparation for taking on
Saddam Hussein.
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., contends that just months into combat in
Afghanistan, Gen. Tommy Franks also told him that fighting terrorism
in Somalia, Yemen and elsewhere should take priority over invading
Iraq.
Graham said Franks told him he thought the United States knew less
about the situation in Iraq than did some European governments, and
the Bush administration should ask them for advice.
The senator, who is retiring at year's end, said his conversation with
the now-retired general came in February 2002, when Graham was
chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
That was the month that Secretary of State Colin Powell told a House
committee that President Bush was considering "the most serious set of
options one might imagine" to bring "regime change" in Iraq, including
the possibility of doing it alone. At least one European leader,
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, said a few days later that Bush
had assured him "he harbors no attack plans."
The invasion began March 19, 2003, over the vigorous protests of
Germany and most other major U.S. allies except Britain, which joined
the invading force. Graham opposed the war.
Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that his meeting with Franks was
at the general's headquarters, Central Command in Tampa, Fla.
"He laid out a very precise strategy for fighting the war on terror,"
Graham said.
"First, we should win the war in Afghanistan. Second, move to Somalia,
which as he described was almost anarchy but with a substantial number
of al-Qaida cells; then to Yemen. And that we should be very careful
about Iraq, because our intelligence was so weak that we didn't know
what we were getting into," Graham said.
Last week, Franks gave fellow Texan Bush a rousing endorsement in a
speech at the Republican National Convention. Franks said he had seen
in Bush's eyes "the courage to stand up to terrorists and the
consistency necessary to beat them."
In "American Soldier," Franks' memoirs published last month, he
mentioned none of the points Graham reported in his book. The retired
general could not be reached Sunday. There was no immediate response
to a message left at Tampa's Central Command headquarters.
Graham wrote of his meeting with Franks in a book, "Intelligence
Matters," which goes on sale Tuesday.
In an excerpt read on the program, the senator said Franks told him
"his men and resources were being moved to Iraq, where he felt that
our intelligence was shoddy. This admission was coming almost 14
months before the beginning of combat operations in Iraq and only five
months after the commencement of combat in Afghanistan."
Graham's book also discusses apparent financial ties of Saudi
officials with two of the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Graham said the matter was discussed in a 28-page section of the
committee's report on the attacks that was kept secret at the request
of the White House.
The Associated Press reported in August 2003 that the classified part
of the report examined interactions between Saudi businessmen and the
royal family that may have intentionally or unwittingly aided al-Qaida
or the suicide hijackers.
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| User: "Jim" |
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| Title: Re: US Afghanistan Commander: Yang Siphoned wang in 2002 To Fight aids in Iraq |
06 Sep 2004 04:09:53 AM |
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"Yang AthD h.c" <eacmole@mail.com> wrote in message
news:8927c4e8.0409051929.6ae1e500@posting.google.com...
Osama Bin Forgotten!
http://www.socialistsofamerica.com
You tell em comrade!
Sheeesh, you want to fight?
How about I shove your head up your ***** and you fight for air?
Jim
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| User: "Jésus Pépé" |
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05 Sep 2004 11:30:42 PM |
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Crack Heads For Kerry!!!
Amid the bong sales, the drug-reform speeches and a certain aroma that
permeated the annual pro-marijuana festival yesterday, Hempfest was
also a venue for another cause: getting John Kerry to the White House.
Regulars who attend the two-day festival to hear the usual cry of
"legalize marijuana" also found organizers
campaigning to get pot users to vote for Kerry.
from [ with great pic of a Kerry supporter ]:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002012173_hempfest22m.html
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Liberals Hate America!
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| User: "Jez" |
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07 Sep 2004 12:14:05 PM |
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Jésus Pépé wrote:
Crack Heads For Kerry!!!
Amid the bong sales, the drug-reform speeches and a certain aroma that
permeated the annual pro-marijuana festival yesterday, Hempfest was
also a venue for another cause: getting John Kerry to the White House.
Did you know cannabis has been shown to reduce cancer tumors ?
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Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
Skype callto://hellward
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| User: "Jésus Pépé" |
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| Title: DemocRATs cry over girlie-man picture of John Kerry. |
05 Sep 2004 11:27:53 PM |
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DemocRATs cry over girlie-man picture of John Kerry.
July 28, 2004 -- NORFOLK, Va.- NASA played a dirty trick by releasing
an embarrassing photo of John Kerry wrapped in a baby-blue outfit, his
campaign charged yesterday. "This was a leaked photo," Mary Beth
Cahill, Kerry's campaign manager, said in an interview with Fox News.
No media photographers accompanied Kerry when he toured the Kennedy
Space Center Monday with former astronaut John Glenn and Florida Sen.
Bill Nelson. All the men donned blue anti-contamination suits, images
captured by a NASA photographer.
"This was a legitimate tour of a NASA facility and this photograph
came out of absolutely nowhere," said Cahill.
But NASA said the picture was routinely posted on its Web site and
only after the Kerry campaign had a chance to review it.
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