"the Cheney question"

[Chris Burford]

Many would sympathise with Chuck's reaction, and his warning about an 
attack on Iraq, but I think his comments underestimate the extent to which 
the leaders of US society are going to have to bring in reforms. They are 
scrambling over this, and the consequential implications of different 
proposals are not clear to them.

The worst scenario for them is that Cheney is not actually a crook, but a 
hard player according to inherently unstable rules.

The scrambled debates, despite themselves, pose the question of how 
corporate capitalism can be shown to deserve social trust. That is a short 
step away from how it can be socially responsible and be guided by social 
foresight.

Chris Burford


>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 01:24:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Breaking story on "the Cheney question"
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>But take a moment or two to reflect at leisure on how events (Cheney
>suit) are unfolding. Regards  Chris Burford
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>I'd love to, but I am not holding my breath. What I want to see is the
>entire unravelling of the Executive Branch, where the Haliburton fraud
>is tied to Enron, Dynergy, Reliant, etc frauds through Anderson and
>others, leading to the billions defrauding the state of California,
>India, Russia, etc, so that President Bush, Vice President Cheney, SEC
>chairman Pitt, Energy Secretary Abraham, Treasury Secretary O'Neill
>and the rest of this big oil scum get pumped back up the ass of the
>Supreme Court--that very large and dark hole where they all came from.
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>But I don't expect that the DLC or the Demos in Congress will actually
>stop grabbing at their tee tees long enough to do any thing about
>it. Look how far they got when they dared to ask for a visitors list
>to the VP's energy meetings last year.
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>What I do expect, and what I would advise Saddam Hussein to do is find
>a very good place to hide until all this blows over. Likely as not,
>the instant any of this starts heading up stairs instead of down
>stairs, Saddam can expect a spectacular display of US military might.
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>Chuck Grimes
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>Oh, a few bad apples. Well say a few dozen bad apples. Okay a few hundred,
>maybe a few thousand.. Alright, a few hundred thousand. Well round it off to
>the top five percent of the population where all the money is. That's not so
>bad is it? Built on trust and integrity, they say.