Why 1st Bush didn't go after Saddam
"There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see..."
Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen George Bush's America, the wealthiest nation in history, faces a growing poverty crisis.
"The three million Americans who have lost their jobs since Mr Bush took office."
"Last year alone, another 1.7 million Americans slipped below the poverty line, bringing the total to 34.6 million, one in eight of the population."
"The number of Americans on (food) stamps has risen from 17 million to 22 million since Mr Bush took office."
"In fact, the US has the worst child poverty rate and the worst life expectancy of all the world's industrialised countries, and the plight of its poor is worsening."
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"Medical records cited in the book indicate that she (Pfc. Lynch) was raped, the Daily News of New York said. Officials have said she has no memory of her ordeal."
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Lynch's Book Says She Was Raped - New York 11/6/03 - "The authorized biography of former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch reportedly says she was raped by her Iraqi captors. ''I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story'' is being released by Knopf publishing Tuesday, which is Veterans Day. Reporter Rick Bragg, who wrote the book, tells Lynch's story. Medical records cited in the book indicate that she was raped, the Daily News of New York said. Officials have said she has no memory of her ordeal." http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20031106094809990003&_mpc=news%2e10%2e1
from L Moss Sharman Cape priest took polygraph, lawyer says - Denies knowledge of Wessner case By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff, 11/5/03 "Barnstable -- For the first time since he became embroiled in a murder investigation and was forced to leave his church, the Rev. Bernard R. Kelly said yesterday through his lawyer that alleged killer Paul R. Nolin Jr. never spoke with him about the death of Jonathan Wessner....Barnstable County Superior Court Judge Richard Connon apparently rejected Kelly's assertion that his conversations with Nolin after the killing were confidential because he was Nolin's pastor....The legal dispute hinged on whether conversations with Nolin were confidential under the clergy privilege that protects statements by people seeking spiritual guidance or comfort, or whether they took place outside a religious context. Kelly, 70, has told investigators that he had a sexual relationship with Nolin, a law enforcement source has said." http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/11/05/cape_priest_took_polygraph_lawyer_says/
Alleged abuse victims rush to file lawsuits by December Deadline Laura Wides 11/5/03 Los Angeles (AP) "The lawsuit is among more than 400 filed since Gov. Gray Davis signed a law last year that allows sex abuse victims until Dec. 31 to sue the employers of molesters who did nothing to stop the criminal conduct of their employees. More than 85 percent of those cases involve priests, said attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents the five men....In the past, victims had to sue before their 26th birthday or up to three years after discovering that their emotional problems were linked to the molestation." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/11/05/state2041EST0148.DTL
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Why 1st Bush didn't go after Saddam
In his memoirs, "A World Transformed," written more than five years ago, President George H.W. Bush wrote the following to explain why he didn't go after Saddam Hussein at the end of the Gulf War. "Trying to eliminate Saddam â would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. â There was no viable 'exit strategy' we could see, violating another of our principles." The book, co-authored by Brent Scowcroft, said that apprehending Saddam was probably impossible. The U.S. would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. Furthermore, the authors said, we had been "self-consciously trying to get a pattern for handling aggression in the post-Cold War world." Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land, they said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1076608,00.html
Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen George Bush's America, the wealthiest nation in history, faces a growing poverty crisis. In the first of a three-part series Julian Borger takes the pulse of the US with elections just a year away Monday November 3, 2003 ...."They're sending $87bn to the second richest oil nation in the world but can't afford to feed their own here in the States." George Bush's America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation the world has ever known, but at home it is being gnawed away from the inside by persistent and rising poverty. The three million Americans who have lost their jobs since Mr Bush took office in January 2001 have yet to find new work in a largely jobless recovery, and they are finding that the safety net they assumed was beneath them has long since unravelled. There is not much left to stop them falling. Last year alone, another 1.7 million Americans slipped below the poverty line, bringing the total to 34.6 million, one in eight of the population. Over 13 million of them are children. In fact, the US has the worst child poverty rate and the worst life expectancy of all the world's industrialised countries, and the plight of its poor is worsening. The ranks of the hungry are increasing in step. About 31 million Americans were deemed to be "food insecure" (they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from). Of those, more than nine million were categorised by the US department of agriculture as experiencing real hunger, defined by the US department of agriculture as an "uneasy or painful sensation caused by lack of food due to lack of resources to obtain food." That was two years ago, before the recession really began to bite. Partial surveys suggest the problem has deepened considerably since then. In 25 major cities the need for emergency food rose an average of 19% last year. Another indicator is the demand for food stamps, the government aid programme of last resort. The number of Americans on stamps has risen from 17 million to 22 million since Mr Bush took office.
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