From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I'm sure if you throw a few hundreed million Bush's way the 'near' problem
would go away.

Remind them, to build it on pontoons as you may have a slight global
warming/ocean issue 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> If I lived near it and contributing to it would give me a lifetime pass
> for free entry, I'd consider it 
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>> Well Bush is planning a half-billion dollar library to remind us of his
>> 'accomplishments' 
>>
>> http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2006/11/goldplated_library.aspx
>> You thought $200 million was a lot for the Clinton Library in Little
>> Rock?
>>
>> How about a half-a-BILLION bucks for the Bush library in Dallas. That's
>> the tab the NY Daily News is putting on a soon-to-be-announced fund
>> drive. Oh, but wait. It's a library AND "think tank."
Boy could stand to
>> do some thinking.
>>
>> The half-billion target is double what Bush raised for his 2004
>> reelection and dwarfs the funding of other presidential libraries. But
>> Bush partisans are determined to have a massive pile of endowment cash to
>> spread the gospel of a presidency that for now gets poor marks from many
>> scholars and a majority of Americans.
>>
>> The legacy-polishing centerpiece is an institute, which several Bush
>> insiders called the Institute for Democracy. Patterned after Stanford
>> University's Hoover Institution, Bush's institute will hire conservative
>> scholars and "give them money to write papers and books
favorable to the
>> President's policies," one Bush insider said.
>>
>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> news:rkbrm2lakv4a70pkmljbioal2ek3asatt6{at}4ax.com...
>>> Nice job W.   When you were bankrupting small oil companies your
>>> daddy's friends could always be counted on to bail you out.   Now that
>>> you've  destroyed one country and severely damaged another (the USA)
>>> no one can help.  You're like some mega, twisted version of the Peter
>>> Principle.  Instead of rising to the level of your own incompetence
>>> (which you did the day you decided to quit drinking), you've pushed
>>> things beyond the ability of anyone to fix.
>>>
>>> The mullahs thank you, however, for doing Allah's work.
>>>
>>> http://www.reason.com/blog/show/116944.html
>>> Iran can either facilitate or humiliate a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.
>>> Key mullahs now say Iran should assist a U.S. exit that would enhance
>>> Iran's regional power. The argument, put forward by Moshen Rezai,
>>> secretary of the government's "Expediency Council,"
states that
>>> "America's arrival in the region presented Iran with an historic
>>> opportunity."
>>>
>>> "The kind of service that the Americans, with all their
hatred, have
>>> done us," said Mr. Rezai, "no superpower has ever
done anything
>>> similar. America destroyed all our enemies in the region. It destroyed
>>> the Taliban. It destroyed Saddam Hussein. ... It did all this in order
>>> to confront us face to face, and in order to place us under siege. But
>>> the American teeth got so stuck in the soil of Iraq and Afghanistan
>>> that if they manage to drag themselves back to Washington in one
>>> piece, they should thank Allah."
>>>
>>> America, therefore, "presents us with an opportunity rather than a
>>> threat -- not because it intended to, but because its estimates were
>>> wrong and made many mistakes," argued Mr. Rezai.
Washington, he said,
>>> "has now despaired of toppling the Islamic Republic. The threats we
>>> face... are about blocking Iran's influence in the region. This is a
>>> vital national interest and the entire nuclear dispute revolves around
>>> it."
>>>
>>> Mr. Rezai said, "now that the Democrats have both houses
of Congress,"
>>> it was incumbent upon Iran to "behave reasonably."
America's policies
>>> and goals in the Middle East won't change, he concluded, but methods
>>> will and "put aside Bush's warmongering methods,"
and both countries
>>> "will stay clear of aggressive confrontations."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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