sunnfun

The legislation that led to the enron loophole was, among others, passed by Sen. Phil Gramm. His wife was on the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission. A few days after she got the ball rolling on the exemption, Wendy Gramm resigned from the commission. Enron soon appointed her to its board of directors.

Guess what Phil Gramm is doing today? He's McCains Chief Economist Advisor and campaign co-chair.

There you go. It all makes sense again.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Because most jet engines require a 3 minute warm up and the vast majority of SWA planes are airborne 3 minutes after pushback...

de727ups

Thread moved out of the Major forum to Hangar Talk as per the last few pages here.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

How about a link???

Boogie Nights

If It Looks Like a Bubble,?

CE750

Dude, give it a break.... even the Bush Administration has since given up on the WMD argument.. we're now onto Al Queda and War on Terror as the reason. Next, after this president is out of office, the truth will come out and we'll just come right out and admit it.. oil.

Learflyer

I was getting excited about the article until the last sentence......"however, this bubble is likely to deflate only partly, before resuming its climb until alternatives displace oil as our primary energy sources"

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Knock it off CE750 - are you saying the thousands of Kurds who're gassed to death died of what - pollution? Give me a break - you're a revisionist, that's all. I don't care how they got those chemical weapons; the fact is those were MD weapons.

The only way we'll find out the whole truth is NOT when we have a new president because that president will still have to rely on our intelligence agencies which as you pointed out weren’t always correct in their assessments of Iraq’s weapons program.

We'll have to wait for Syria to become an open society and only then will the truth come out. There is a reason to why Iraq let in a bunch of Russian special ops forces right before the war. No one knows what happened to their weapons program but it was there before, no one could account for its destruction thus it must have been hidden or evacuated 'somewhere' - Syria is the safest bet since they're a strong Russian ally and the Socialist Arab Baath party in power there is of the same branch Saddam belonged to.

Your hate for Bush makes you very color blind - you discount anything bad that our enemies might have done and put all the blame squarely on us.

I do remember the days Ronald Reagan was vilified as a war monger, American terrorist, etc, in Europe and elsewhere. I lived in Europe then and frankly the treatment Reagan received by the Europeans then was harsher than Bush ever got. Bush is disliked and has no respect over there - Reagan was hated - after all, he wanted to bring nuclear war to Europe! That's how the lefties portrayed him and people bought it.

People were wrong then but they didn’t realize it until some 10-15 years later. I personally think Bush sucked as a president but for different reason than you do. He turned into an illegal amnesty proponent; he didn't even try to control spending in order to placate the leftist congress, etc, etc.

When it comes to the war on terror though, I think history will judge him very positively, however it'll have to take 10-15 years again before the world realizes what was really happening in the Middle East... Just my take on it…

Russian Intelligence, Belarus & Highway 11
Part 3 of a 5

Did Russian Ambassador Give Saddam the U.S. War Plan?

The Duke

Previous Presidential Administrations, to remain nameless in order to preserve "fair and balanced reporting", played a significant role in arming Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi military...still have the haunting memory of Don Rumsfeld shaking hands w/ Saddam Hussein and having the biggest smile I've ever seen on a diplomat's face. Of course, Iraq was battling the Iranians in a brutal 10 year war, we heavily armed the Iraqis as a result, but obviously our government at that time did not put much thought into the long-term implications of that decision.

Now, as a nation, we're paying for those decisions.

How does it affect our aviation industry and a turn-around? I don't know, seems like I had always remembered people say that war was good for the economy, but a quick look around and it doesn't really seem like this war has helped our economy out much. At least I'm not getting any positive vibes.

So now we've got the mother of all bad combinations going on: High fuel costs, shoddy economy, the credit crunch, staggering forclosure rates (now the average American loses much of their purchasing power...attached to the value of their homes), a pathetically weak dollar, and an unbelievable national debt, just to name a few.

⌐ AV8OR WANNABE

Irrelevant - the US traded heavily with the Nazi Germany up until right before the war. Didn’t change the fact that once the war started we were all on the same side.