Re: The Times of London on victory in Iraq

Mitchell Holman wrote:
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> "Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'')"
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> > Mitchell Holman wrote:
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> >> "Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'')"
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> >> > Mitchell Holman wrote:
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> >> >> Rudy Canoza <pipes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> > Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'') wrote:
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> >> >> >> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >> >> >>> "Bill Bonde { ''Soylent Diesel is People'')"
> >> >> >>> <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>     Bush let that go on for two years before deciding
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>> it was an act of war that only an invasion would stop?
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>     What took him so long?
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>> Don't you think he was busy dealing with other issues?
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>     Like the longest vacation in presidential history,
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> reading childrens books on 9/11 and playing golf. "It's
> >> >> >>>>>>>>> hard work". Yeah, right.
> >> >> >>>>>>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>>>> Going to your house in your home state shouldn't be
> >> >> >>>>>>>> considered
> >> a
> >> >> >>>>>>>> "vacation" in the sense of you not going to your job and
> >> putting
> >> >> >>>>>>>> in your 9 to 5.
> >> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>>>     Bush called it a vacation. Was he lying?
> >> >> >>>>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>> It's a vacation from Wa****ngton DC. It's not a vacation
from
> >> being
> >> >> >>>>>> president. It's good to see the president go out west. By
> >> operating
> >> >> >>>>>> from Texas, he can more easily get to California, the PNW,
> >> >> >>>>>> the Midwest. That's a good thing.
> >> >> >>>>>     Yes, that is why Condi Rice's re****t to Bush about Bin
> >> >> >>>>> Laden about to attack the US went unnoticed - because of
> >> >> >>>>> Bush's non-vacation vacation.
> >> >> >>>>>
> >> >> >>>>>     Sheesh..............
> >> >> >>>>>
> >> >> >>>> Bush was in Florida working when 9/11 happened, wasn't he?
> >> >> >>>      Is that what we elect presidents to do - read
> >> >> >>> to children?
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >> It's not clear to me why presidents do so much of that sort of
> >> >> >> thing. I would be more focused on the actual job of being
> >> >> >> president, running the government, policy, that sort of thing.
> >> >> >> But the public relations people seem to think that get the
> >> >> >> president out, get him his daily sound bite.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Nonetheless, they *all* do it.  Bush was no different from
anyone
> >> else.
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> "Bush has spent more than a year of his presidency" at his ranch
> >> >> in Crawford, Texas. On August 19, 2005, "he broke Ronald Reagan's
> >> >> record of 335 days for America's most vacationed president
> >> >>
> >> > You'll notice that these "most vacationed" presidents are from the
> >> > West.
> >> >
> >>
> >>      More specifically, "from" the GOP.
> >>
> > Most presidents of late have been Republicans.
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>     The president with the fewest vacations is...Jimmy Carter.
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Because he lives just down the road. And he hid out in the White
House for the last part of his term. Oh, and going to Camp David
doesn't count.



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