Re: Ari\'s Comments
It might just be sabre rattling, but I doubt it. Bush's goal may be to intimidate Iraqis into making the leadership change themselves, but again, I doubt it. As to the Kissenger appointment, I'm not surprised that he'd pick someone with a record. John Poindexter is the head of the Information Awareness Office, a high tech spying operation. The funny thing is that Poindexter and Ollie North got caught in the Iran/Contra scandal when they deleted 5,000 e-mail messages regarding this topic from their computers. Neither of them knew enough about the technology to realize that those messages were stored in the backup, so they got busted. Poindexter's conviction was overturned on a technicality. Hopefully he's taken a few IT courses since 1986 [img]/forums/images/icons/smile.gif[/img] So there seems to be no shortage of irony in Bush's selections. Makes you feel really secure, eh?
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