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is truth stranger than fiction?

Apr 14, 2004 3:09AM PDT

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Re:is truth stranger than fiction?
Apr 14, 2004 3:27AM PDT

Truth or fiction, his first paragraph would lead one to question what president he's describing. It's sure nothing like the regime in the White House now.

Dan

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Re:Re:is truth stranger than fiction?
Apr 14, 2004 4:16AM PDT
"W" has some good people around him who keep a firewall in the White House against his father's oil cronies.

I guess the author had a momentary lapse and forgot that W's Vice President is one of his father's oil cronies.

If you look at this author's other articles, a lot of it sounds very Lyndon LaRouche-like. Wacko type of stuff, like implicating Enron in 9/11.
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Wow, I wonder if Enron did do it
Apr 14, 2004 4:33PM PDT
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Re:Wow, I wonder if Enron did do it
Apr 14, 2004 11:04PM PDT

LOL, we also wondered whether Gary Condit might have been behind it.

Wink

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If anything...
Apr 15, 2004 12:59AM PDT

...it shows how common war profiteering is, how often it is bungled, how risky it is, and how money speaks louder than ideology to some people, but ideology is what eventually wins in the end anyway. The problem with that writer is he assumes or expects his readers to assume that everyone knew exactly where they were headed when they first started their investments that eventually got tangled up in Hitler's web. What I see are American investors and industrialist trying to make a profit, getting entangled in Hitler's web of deceit, then looking for a way to get out of it without losing it all. Their efforts to keep assetts away from the Soviets I find to be commendable. So, where was this author's condemnation of Armand Hammer and a portrayal of his part in things at the time? Sadly, lacking. Interesting tale, woven into his own fabric of deceit. Loftus also sounds like a front man for certain Holocaust groups that are hoping to create a favorable political situation and later to sue for a good payoff day, like they accomplished in Europe. Prelude to a ripoff?