News Avalanche (bad news for Bush fans)

[ozymandius]

National Guard hands over more Bush papers

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than a week after a court-imposed deadline to turn over all records of President Bush's military service, the Texas Air National Guard belatedly produced two documents Tuesday that include Bush's orders for his last day of active duty in 1973.

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The records released Tuesday are the fifth set of documents related to Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard service to be released in response to the AP lawsuit. The federal judge overseeing that case ordered the Pentagon to disclose all of Bush's records by Sept. 24. Tuesday's four pages of records were the second set of files released after that deadline.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_GUARD?SITE=ININS&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Three Bush Officials Probed in Boeing Tanker Deal

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department (news - web sites) is reviewing the actions of three top administration officials over a $23.5 billion Air Force plan to acquire 100 Boeing Co. tankers, documents obtained by Reuters on Tuesday show.

Last week, former No. 2 Air Force arms buyer Darleen Druyun was sentenced to nine months in jail after she admitted giving Chicago-based Boeing a rival's secret data and inflating weapons deals to ingratiate herself with her future employer.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=3&u=/nm/arms_boeing_tanker_dc

White House on defensive after Bremer talk

WASHINGTON - The White House staunchly defended its Iraq (news - web sites) policy Tuesday as new questions emerged about President Bush (news - web sites)'s prewar decisions and postwar planning: An impending weapons report undercut the administration's main rationale for the war, and the former head of the American occupation said the United States had too few troops in Iraq after the invasion.

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White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to say if Bremer had pleaded with Bush for more troops, saying, "We never get into reading out all the conversations they had."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_re_us/us_iraq

Panel to Probe Use of Iraq Oil Revenues

WASHINGTON - A House subcommittee investigating Iraq's oil-for-food program expanded its probe to the Bush administration Tuesday, agreeing to subpoena documents on the U.S. postwar management of oil revenues and, if necessary, audits on contracts for reconstruction projects, including one given to Halliburton.

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Failure to release the information, said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., would appear hypocritical and arrogant, and "reinforce the image that our primary goal (in Iraq) was to seize control of the oil."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/oil_for_food_investigation

[951]

1. YES!

:toast:

[Bluebear]

2. But but but what about Clinton and the intern?

[Carla in Ca]

3. Yeah, our country is so much better off now

with *'s finger on the red button, right?