Bush takes money Congress has approved from a supplemental appropriation for the Afghan War and uses $700 million for planning the Iraq war without informing congress. Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia then gets a detailed briefing on the coming war including "Top secret No foreign" maps detailing the plan of attack. And this happens before the President even tells the Secretary of State. Bandar promises the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day. Grounds for impeachment? You'd better believe it. [Reference link below from CBS News.]
Woodward Shares War Secrets
CBS NEWS
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/60minutes/main612067.shtml
Show Me The Jobs
ALTERNET
by Judith Gorman
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18438
'Lawrence of Arabia' Redux
NEW YORK TIMES
by Frank Rich
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/arts/18RICH.html
Bush Losing Ground In Rural America
LOS ANGELES TIMES
by John Glionna
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0419-03.htm
Voters in struggling outlying areas tend to identify with his values, but economic concerns are alienating some lifelong Republicans.
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