From: "Rich Gauszka" 

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
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> 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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