Andrew "Andy" Card - Avoided Vietnam
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Born: May 10, 1947
Employer: The U.S. Taxpayer
Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
Notes:
Andy, as he likes to be called,
used to be "the automotive industry's
main voice."
As such, he
"lobbied the U.S. government against
stricter fuel emissions standards."
Lobbying for the Chamber of Commerce,
he "testified before Congress against
the 'Passengers' Bill of Rights.'"
He got paid well enough for
these services to the (business)
community to be able to afford
"nearly ,000 in campaign
contributions in 1999-2000,
including 1,000 each to fellow
members of the new administration,
John Ashcroft and Spencer Abraham,
for their ultimately unsuccessful
senate bids."
These days, of course,
he's George's Chief of Staff.
And - oh, yes - he's a chickenhawk.
(Source: Center for Responsive Politics.)
John Bradley
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NY POST
July 16, 2004 -- British intelligence received reports ahead of the
Iraq war saying Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi seeded Baghdad
with "sleeper cells" to attack U.S.-led forces, and that he may have
received chemical and biological weapons from northern Iraq. The
information, released as part of a review of British intelligence,
comes as the Iraqi government said yesterday it sees signs of
increasing coordination in the insurgency between al Qaeda-linked
terrorist groups and the remains of Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime.
The report, released Wednesday and based on intelligence available
just before the war, raises the question of why U.S.-led forces were
not better prepared for a growing insurgency that has used tactics
mentioned in the report, such as car bombs, to devastating effect.
"There were manifold planning failures . . . and this was just one of
them," said Steven Simon, a senior analyst at the RAND Corp. think
tank and co-author of "The Age of Sacred Terror," a book about the
rise of al Qaeda.
Bush administration officials have acknowledged underestimating the
strength of guerrilla forces.
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idol John F. Kennedy started.
Fat "ASS" Ted Kennedy aviod the draft and Viet Nam, a war his brother
John F Kennedy started.