From: "Mark" 

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
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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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