PLAIN TALK

Leonard Horwin September 9, 2004

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When Push Come to Shove

(The Multiple Wars Piled on Top of a Downing U.S. Economy)

Questions and Answers are cited below as “Q” and “A”

1. Q: To what am I referring in the title of this Plain Talk?

A: To the imploding inconsistency between huge increases in war expenditures, and presidential policy of decreasing taxation.

2. Q: To what presidential policies are we referring?

A: President Bush’s taking on a wrong time for any war against Iraq instead of taking on the Al Quaeda international terrorism as the first order of business. This was done while at the same time cutting taxes, especially for those able to pay them, –and by so cutting, denying the necessary national income to pay for the wars.

3. Q: What about President Bush’s anti-Iraq war, –with inadequate international agreements to support it, –being totally inconsistent with the U.S.’s practical alliance with the same Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, in his 1980s wars against Muslim Iran, in which the U.S. furnished the intelligence, weapons, and even personnel for the “Baghdad Hitler” to be able to defeat the Ayatollahs of Islamic Iran.

4. Q: Anything else?

A: Yes. We had no reason to start a war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq before engaging and winning a war against terrorism because:

(1) Hussein was not the source of the terror.

(2) Hussein had no standing with the terror source. His regime had no religious support from Islam, and no credible alliance with the sources of terror.

5. Q: What about the reference to the economy?

A: While carrying on multiple, unnecessary costly and deadly wars, –Bush had been preaching and acting accordingly to cut the taxes from which the wars would be paid, –thus generating an imminent U.S. internal economic disaster.

6. Q: Is there any evidence of this?

A: Yes. On the day in which this Plain Talk was dictated, the front page of the Los Angeles Times, Saturday, August 7, 2004 shows multiple articles on the economy: (1) “U.S. Payroll Growth Is Weak in July. The gain of 32,000 jobs is much lower than expected, raising concerns about the economy’s strength. The jobless rate dips to 5.5%,” by James F. Peltz; (2) “Hiring Dip Makes Bush Campaign Job Harder,” by Peter Wallsten and Warren Vieth.”

“U.S. job rates declines for fourth month.”

“Slump in New Hires is Bad Timing for Bush.”

The foregoing is in addition to multiple evidence that this would-be military president has no real capacity for running the U.S. wars or the economy.

7. Q: Any other evidence of presidential incapacity in Bush?

A: Yes. A very recent example is the President’s threat to concentrate most of the American Fleet to the Taiwan Straits to cope with a presidentially foreseen intention of China to take over Taiwan, –which the U.S. is sworn to defend.

8. Q: How would it be possible to describe this presidential threat as anything but presidential insanity, –having in mind that we have tremendous U.S. business interests in China, enjoy improving economic relations with China, and even have reason to expect its support on anti-terrorism?

A: Correct.

9. In sum:

The U.S. electorate needs no further factual background than the foregoing in order to know that there must be a cessation of the Bush Dynasty in November.

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cc: George W. Bush, President

Richard Cheney, Vice President

Colin Powell, Secretary of State

Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

Condoleezza Rice, National Security

Advisor

Colonel Oliver North

Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland

Security

John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General

Tony Blair, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary

Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the

U.S. House of Representatives

Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu, Economy Minister for the Israeli Government

Israel’s “Women In Green”

National Unity Coalition for Israel

Arianna Huffington, Syndicated

Columnist

Oriana Fallaci, International Journalist,

Interviewer and Author

Yohanan Ramati, Chairman, Jerusalem

Institute for Western Defense

Gerardo Joffe, FLAME (Facts & Logic

About the Middle East)

Mortimer Zuckerman, Editor in Chief -

US News and World Report

Time Magazine

Washington Post - Attn: Bob Woodward

International Jerusalem Post

The Weekly Standard – Bill Kristol, Editor

The Wall Street Journal - Editorial and

Op-Ed Department

Los Angeles Times, Op-Ed Department

Dr. and Mrs. Jordan Phillips,

Medical Books for China International &

Leading Experts in China