__At Least 30 in U.S. are Suspected of Selling Iraq Arms Before War; Why Aren't Reagan, Bush Sr., Rumsfeld on This List???

"American officials in Baghdad have identified at least 30 businesses and individuals in the United States that investigators said they suspect sold tens of millions of dollars in military technology to Iraq before the war. Atop the list of suspects... is a father-and-son team from San Diego charged Wednesday with selling gunboats to Saddam Hussein's government." Okay, but why aren't they also investigating who sold Hussein WMDs and other arms during the 80's -- and up to the invasion of Kuwait in '91? These loans and deals were arranged by Bush Sr., and Reagan's envoy, Donald Rumsfeld -- through the Agriculture Dept and the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). Companies involved in the Iraqgate scandal include Bechtel, Honeywell, Bell Helicopter, Unisys, Rockwell, Hewlett Packard, DuPont, Eastman Kodak and Wackenhut. Bush Sr. ultimately left the US taxpayers holding $2 Billion in defaulted Iraqi debt. (Enter "Bechtel" in our search engine. Also, enter "Iraqgate").
http://nytimes.com/2003/10/16/international/middleeast/16ARMS.html

__Smallpox Vaccination Plan 'Ceased'

"Less than a year after Resident Bush announced a smallpox vaccination plan to protect Americans in the event of a terrorist attack, a fraction of the expected number of health workers have been immunized and the much ballyhooed program is dead in the water. Federal health officials say they're not ready to declare the program dead, but they readily acknowledge it's ailing. 'The fact is, it's ceased,' says Ray Strikas of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 'not that anyone's issued an edict to say stop'... Earlier in the week, he told USA Today that the pace of new vaccinations dropped dramatically in April after well-publicized reports of unexpected heart problems associated with the vaccine. At the peak, hundreds of health workers were vaccinated. Now, it's down to 'a few per week'... Even before the heart problems emerged, the plan met early opposition from doctors, nurses and other groups concerned about vaccine risks and issues of liability and compensation."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-10-15-smallpox_x.htm



__Did Prescott Bush Steal Geronimo's Skull?


Indian Country Today: "A secret society at Yale University boasts of harboring skulls and bones of humans and members of that society have become some of the most powerful people in America by virtue of the network established by the society. Resident George W. Bush, his father and grandfather are and were members of the Skull and Bones Society... In 1986 some members of the Skull and Bones Society contacted members of the Apache Nation, the San Carlos Apache specifically and told them the Skull and Bones Society had Geronimo's skull on display. The story was told how a written journal detailed the raid on the Chiricahua Apache's grave at Fort Sill, Okla. And that Patriarch [Prescott] Bush led the dig [in 1918].... It is the belief of the Fort Sill Apache, where Geronimo died and where his family resided that the skull at the Skull and Bones Society is not that of their revered and historic leader, Darrow said. It may be a skull of another of the Chiricahua leaders, Mangas Colorados."
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1065807370


__The New Road to the White House Runs Through the Blogosphere

Lawrence Lessig writes, "When they write the account of the 2004 campaign, it will include at least one word that has never appeared in any presidential history: blog. Whether or not it elects the next president, the blog may be the first innovation from the Internet to make a real difference in election politics.... [T]he blog, a space where people gab. As implemented by most campaigns, it is a place where candidates gab down to the people. But when done right, as the Howard Dean campaign apparently is doing, the blog is a tool for building community. The trick is to turn the audience into the speaker. A well-structured blog inspires both reading and writing. And by getting the audience to type, candidates get the audience committed. Engagement replaces reception, which in turn leads to real space action. The life of the Dean campaign on the Internet is not really life on the Internet. It's the activity in real space that the Internet inspires." Here here!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/view.html?pg=5