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Azred · 01-15-2004, 03:40 AM

Alcoa is most likely the "hold-over" name that used to be the acronym for Aluminum (or Aluminium) Cooperative of America. It is another of those corporate names that have evolved from acronym to word, like Sprint (Southern Pacific Railroad Interstate Telephone, or something like that). Enough useless trivia for tonight, however. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

This is simply O'Neill's version of "they won't let me play anymore, so I'm going to tell on them...so there". With his record of being a member of Ford's staff and his involvement with Cheney, he is hardly an "outsider", from a Washington point of view, so that I don't believe.
Honestly, though, the younger Bush would not have had to remove Hussein from Iraq had the elder Bush done the job back in 1991, saving everyone in Iraq an extra 12 years of languishing needlessly. Why did we ever give him any support in the first place? Was everyone in the intelligence community with any psychological profile training asleep or what? [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]

Even though this is an election year, the Democratic candidates won't be able to make too much of O'Neill's assertions vis-a-vis Bush wanting to remove Hussein, because that falls under the auspices of National Security and Fighting Terrorism, which is a "good thing". (I'll save the analysis of why having so many Democrat candidates will assure that the final Democrat candidate will lose the election for another thread).

O'Neill thinks he won't be attacked for telling the truth? [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img] He was in Washington, D.C.--what made him think the truth was welcome there?! [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img]

[ 01-15-2004, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: Azred ]

01-15-2004, 03:40 AM	#34
Azred Drow Priestess Join Date: March 13, 2001 Location: a hidden sanctorum high above the metroplex Age: 55 Posts: 4,037	Alcoa is most likely the "hold-over" name that used to be the acronym for Aluminum (or Aluminium) Cooperative of America. It is another of those corporate names that have evolved from acronym to word, like Sprint (Southern Pacific Railroad Interstate Telephone, or something like that). Enough useless trivia for tonight, however. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] This is simply O'Neill's version of "they won't let me play anymore, so I'm going to tell on them...so there". With his record of being a member of Ford's staff and his involvement with Cheney, he is hardly an "outsider", from a Washington point of view, so that I don't believe. Honestly, though, the younger Bush would not have had to remove Hussein from Iraq had the elder Bush done the job back in 1991, saving everyone in Iraq an extra 12 years of languishing needlessly. Why did we ever give him any support in the first place? Was everyone in the intelligence community with any psychological profile training asleep or what? [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img] Even though this is an election year, the Democratic candidates won't be able to make too much of O'Neill's assertions vis-a-vis Bush wanting to remove Hussein, because that falls under the auspices of National Security and Fighting Terrorism, which is a "good thing". (I'll save the analysis of why having so many Democrat candidates will assure that the final Democrat candidate will lose the election for another thread). O'Neill thinks he won't be attacked for telling the truth? [img]graemlins/laugh3.gif[/img] He was in Washington, D.C.--what made him think the truth was welcome there?! [img]graemlins/1dizzy.gif[/img] [ 01-15-2004, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: Azred ] __________________ Everything may be explained by a conspiracy theory. All conspiracy theories are true. No matter how thinly you slice it, it's still bologna.