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Seven QUestions For George Bush
1. How were you able to jump ahead of 500 other applicants to get into the Texas Air National Guard, thus guaranteeing you would not have to go to Vietnam? What calls did your father (who was then a United States Congressman representing Texas) make on your behalf for you to get this assignment?
2. Why were you grounded (not allowed to fly) after you either failed your physical or failed to take it in July 1972? Was there a reason you were afraid to take the physical? Or, did you take it and not pass it? If so, why didn't you pass it? Was it the urine test? The records show that, after the Guard spent years and lots of money training you to be a pilot, you never flew for the rest of your time in the Guard. Why?
3. Can you produce one person who can verify that he served with you in the Guard during the year that your Texas commanders said you did not show up? Why have you failed to bring forth anyone who served with you in the Guard while you were in Alabama? Why hasn't ONE SINGLE PERSON come forward?
4. Can you tell us what you did when you claim to have shown up in Alabama for Guard duty? What were your duties? You were grounded, so what did they have you do instead?
5. Where are the sign-up sheets that would have your name and service number on them for each weekend you showed up? Aaron Brown on CNN told us how, when he was in the reserves, he had to sign in each time he reported, and his guest from the Washington Post said, that's right, and there would be "four copies of that record" in the files of various agencies. Will you ask those agencies to release those records?
6. If you were in fact paid for that time when you apparently went AWOL, will you authorize the IRS to release your 1972-73 tax returns?
7. How did you get an honorable discharge? What strings were pulled? Who called who?
Radio Farda
Based on this successful model, the U.S. introduced Radio Farda to broadcast to Iran around the clock. Building on this success, the FY 2005 President's Budget Request provides over $70 million for Arabic and Persian radio and television broadcasts to the Middle East. In early 2004, the United States will launch the Middle East Television Network, an Arabic language satellite network that will have the capability of reaching millions of viewers and will provide a means for Middle Easterners to better understand democracy and free market policies, as well as the U.S. and its people.
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February 10, 2004
Postal Site Hit by Anthrax Is Now Clean, Officials Say
By IVER PETERSON
HAMILTON, N.J., Feb. 9 - The Postal Service's mail-sorting plant here, which was contaminated with anthrax in 2001, is now clear of the poison after being fumigated with chlorine gas last year, the service announced Monday.
Thomas G. Day, the Postal Service's vice president for engineering, said the plant would reopen by the end of the year, after millions of dollars of ruined mail-sorting equipment has been disposed of and replaced. A reopening will also mean that hundreds of mail-sorting personnel, most of whom live in the state capital region here, will no longer have to commute long distances to facilities that took over the plant's responsibilities.
The plant was closed in October 2001 after anthrax-contaminated mail that was delivered to United States Senate offices was traced to the plant here. The tainted mail also passed through a large sorting facility outside Washington, which was also closed and cleaned and is now partially functioning.
The Hamilton plant, just outside Trenton, was fumigated with chlorine gas last fall. The Postal Service said Monday that none of several thousand small test strips placed in the plant before fumigation showed evidence of anthrax.
But the machinery in the plant was ruined by the gas, and Bill Lewis, president of the Trenton Metropolitan Area Local of the American Postal Workers Union, said a tour of the plant Friday evening presented an eerie sight.
"There's a lot of stainless in there, and it's all rusted and pitted," Mr. Lewis said. "Even the phone cords and the tumblers in the locks have to be replaced."
The Postal Service estimated the cost of cleaning and restoring the plant to be at least $80 million.
"The Postal Service worked diligently to provide the best technologies and processes to decontaminate this facility," Mr. Day said Monday. "The safety of our employees and the public we serve demands no less. I'm pleased with the results."
What will please the 700 employees who worked in the center will be to return. For more than two years, they have commuted to plants in Edison, Monmouth and Lakewood, Mr. Day said, and their unhappiness threatened to became a political headache for local officials. The union is trying to win pay for the added commuting time, Mr. Lewis said.
Fears of contaminated mail spiked during the anthrax attacks, which killed five people and sickened 17 more nationwide. Those fears were briefly revived with the recent discovery of poisonous ricin mailed from a Greenville, S.C., post office, to Bill Frist, the Republican Senate majority leader.
No arrests have been announced in either case.
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“In 1992, the Pentagon, under [then Secretary of Defense] Cheney, commissioned the Halliburton subsidiary Brown & Root to do a classified study on whether it was a good idea to have private contractors do more of the military's work. Of course, they said it's a terrific idea, and over the next eight years, Kellogg, Brown & Root and another company got 2,700 contracts worth billions of dollars.”--Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center For Public Integrity, on 60 Minutes, 9/21/03
