Homestead mailing list

[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jun 7, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> This is the extent to which we have set reason aside.  Bush (and  
> probably
> McCain) are lying no matter what they say or what the facts are.   
> Obama is always
> telling the truth no matter what he says or what the facts are.  The  
> present
> lie about not accepting money from lobbyists is a case in point.

Bush deserves his lack of credulity. He caused it by his actions.

It is a stretch to say that McCain is perceived the same way, although  
it is deserved in several instances.
> Congress had the same information as Bush.

Not true. A very small group around Bush had all the intelligence.  
Even Powell was not fully informed, by design.
> To anyone with at least half a brain it was obvious that the war was
> prosecuted to keep Iraq from setting up its own non-dollar oil  
> burse.  The real cause
> of the war was the people's unwillingness to accept the reality of  
> the 'long
> emergency' energy difficulties that were shortly to arrive around  
> the corner.
> Many cannot accept it to this day.     </HTML>

On this we are agreed. I argued before the war and argue still that it  
was and is and will be about oil.