libya to give up wmd

[catocom]

Yeahhhh
I will have to give pres. Clinton credit....
At least he has covered his criminal acts good enough to keep
himself just out of the arm of the law, even until now.
I'm not so sure they won't eventually tie him, (or more likely Hillery)
in to some kind of 'major' illegal activity.

 

[Squiggy]

They've spent a ton of $$$ and manhours trying. What makes you think there was more to be found?

 

[catocom]

I'm just a paranoid conspiracy theorist ...remember.

Anyway, kinda back on subject...(since I don't particularly even like thinking about clinton)
Everytime I think about Lybian terrorist, it
makes me think of the movie "Back to the Future"

 

[chcr]

Yeahhhh
I will have to give pres. Clinton credit....
At least he has covered his criminal acts good enough to keep
himself just out of the arm of the law, even until now.
I'm not so sure they won't eventually tie him, (or more likely Hillery)
in to some kind of 'major' illegal activity.

Yeah, I still believe he was at least peripherally involved in murder in the whole Whitewater scandal, but he and Hillary stayed clean enough...

Everytime I think about Lybian terrorist, it
makes me think of the movie "Back to the Future"

Glad I'm not the only one!

 

[Gonz]

it just keeps getting better & better

US President George W. Bush told an Israeli journalist that "we must get rid of" Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the mass-circulation Yediot Aharonot daily has reported.

Bush's comments came in a brief exchange with the paper's correspondent during a Christmas drinks party in Washington, several hours after a keynote speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Thursday in which he outlined plans for unilateral disengagement from peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

The US government has boycotted Arafat with Bush accusing the veteran leader of failing the Palestinian people. Israel has also shunned the 74-year-old, branding him an absolute obstacle to peace and confining him to his West Bank headquarters for more than two years.

Israel's security cabinet approved Arafat's "removal" in September, with one minister even suggesting that he could be assassinated, but Washington warned Israel not to attempt to expel him.

Bush was non-commital about Sharon's speech, saying that he would wait to see what happened on the ground.

"Speeches are good things, but they are words. I am waiting for action," he was quoted as saying.

"Now is the time to do a lot in the Middle East, and I am determined and committed to doing that. You can be sure that I have done a lot until now, but I am going to keep on doing. I am going to continue to be active and committed to my vision."

 

[chcr]

it just keeps getting better & better

I think Arafat is largely irrelevant anymore, has been for a while. The current Palestinian government ignores hem, and the terrorists largely ignore him as well. He's trying to hold on to some semblance of power but his group of followers is shrinking.

 

[Gonz]

we can only hope.

 

[Squiggy]

I think everyone is afraid of his bouncing lip...I know I am.

 

[Gato_Solo]

I hope this one is true. My rampant paranoia though, keeps asking itself, "How do you make an elephant disappear in a room full of people."

2 ways. Either blind all the people, or kill all the people. If you can't see it, then, according to most folks, it doesn't exist.

 

[BeardofPants]

I think everyone is afraid of his bouncing lip...I know I am.

Screw the big bouncing lip (mebbe he saw Angelina Jolie and wanted one? ) it's the funny little hat thing that scares me. What the fuck does he keep under there?? Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction??

 

[chcr]

2 ways. Either blind all the people, or kill all the people. If you can't see it, then, according to most folks, it doesn't exist.

That's a Harry Houdini line. The answer is: Misdirection. You don't have to kill or blind anyone Gato, you just have to get them looking at something else.

I'm just a paranoid conspiracy theorist ...remember.

You got the flashlight and secret decoder ring?

His crime was THAT serious. If he'd stayed for the impeachment he would have died in prison...

Nope, the reason he stayed out of prison was that Gerry Ford pardoned him. Had nothing to do with his resignation.

 

[Squiggy]

Exactly, chic...He had to step down to get the pardon. Or he would have been sentenced. He couldn't give himself a pardon if he had stayed.

 

[chcr]

Exactly, chic...He had to step down to get the pardon. Or he would have been sentenced. He couldn't give himself a pardon if he had stayed.

Bet you a shiny nickel he would have been pardoned in any case.

 

[catocom]

You got the flashlight and secret decoder ring?

I got the flashlight, and the decoder is now integrated into my computer.

 

[Squiggy]

Bet you a shiny nickel he would have been pardoned in any case.

Probably. But had he been tried, so much more would have come out that maybe even Ford would have shyed away from a pardon....

 

[chcr]

I got the flashlight, and the decoder is now integrated into my computer.

Showing my age, wasn't I???

 

[chcr]

Posted on Fri, Jan. 02, 2004

Prime minister of Libya urges end to sanctions
By Patrick E. Tyler
NEW YORK TIMES
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's prime minister said Thursday that the United States should act quickly to reward his country for abandoning its secret weapons programs.
Prime Minister Shukri Ghanim warned that unless the United States lifted sanctions by a May 12 deadline set forth in a legal settlement, Libya would not be bound to pay the remaining $6 million promised to each family of victims killed on Pan Am Flight 103.
Ghanim said that any decision by the Bush administration was strictly an "internal matter" for the United States, but that the deadlines and their consequences, recorded in the settlement with the Lockerbie families, were well-known to all parties, including administration officials.
A quick lifting of U.S. sanctions would allow U.S. oil companies to return to Libya this spring and pave the way for unfreezing $1 billion in assets that Libyan officials say are languishing in U.S. banks.

The more things change...
Link

 

[Gonz]

Where's the war? We got the oil.

 

[chcr]

[Pink Floyd] Money money money money, MONEY [/Pink Floyd]