Heritage Foundation and Abramoff: Lobbyists for Malaysia?

[BurtWorm]

What Heritage are they founded on? The kind Twain wrote about in the Gilded Age?


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/02/20/international/i210516S41.DTL&type=printable

Ex-Malasian Leader Says He Paid Abramoff
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Monday, February 20, 2006

(02-20) 21:05 PST KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) --

Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize his 2002 meeting with President Bush, but denied the money came from the Malaysian government.

Mahathir told reporters he was aware a payment was made to Abramoff, but he didn't know who made it. He said he had been persuaded by the U.S. think tank Heritage Foundation to meet with Bush at the time.

"It is true that somebody paid but it was not the (Malaysian) government," Mahathir said. "I understood some people paid a sum of money to lobbyists in America but I do not know who these people were and it was not the Malaysian government."

Mahathir said the Heritage Foundation believed he could help "influence (Bush) in some way regarding U.S. policies."

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[Erika]

1. The Heritage Foundation is nothing but a PAC for

the GOP. Their supposed "think tank" is a farce.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. Of course - don't forget they are robots .

Force fed the idealogy every morning at dawn . Don't you notice , they never blink their eyes ?

[Oversea Visitor]

2. WoW

Malaysia wheee what are we in the thick of this.

[CJCRANE]

4. May as well replace the physical White House with a Trojan Horse statue.

Would be more fitting.