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<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>... ready or not.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Yes, the man responsible for such gems as "The trouble with the French is that they have no word for</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb><I></I></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb><I></I></SPAN><I><SPAN lang=en-us> <FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>entrepreneur</FONT></SPAN></I><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>" has once again been elected to America's top job and will reign over the White House (and, therefore, the world) for another term. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>So perhaps you'd like to know a little more about the man who will dominate international politics for the next four years, and about the team who helped him get there? </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>George W. Bush</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Arrested three times for different offences, and escaped a US$800,000 charge over the trading of oil shares courtesy of an investigator (appointed by his father) who claimed that despite looking everywhere he just couldn't find enough evidence to prosecute.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Dick Cheney</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Sold US$35 million of his shares when chief executive of engineering company Halliburton after accounting changes allegedly inflated the share price by US$100 million. The shares later collapsed. Halliburton are now under investigation over a multi-billion no-bid contract in Iraq. Appointed head of the Republican committee to find a vice-presidential candidate, he duly found one: himself.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Thomas White</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Former vice-chairman of Enron Energy Services. While he was in the job, Enron rigged and exploited California's electricity market, causing chaos, power cuts and unemployment, in what the Senate investigator called 'a mob-style protection racket.' Subsequently appointed Secretary of the US Army.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Larry Thompson</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-gb></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us> </SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>Headed up the audit and compliance committee of Providian. This insurance firm was forced to pay US$300 million (the largest fine ever doled out by the Comptroller of the Currency) in fines and compensation after swindling its investors, the frail and elderly, of most of their savings. Larry later faced accusations of insider trading, after selling US $4 million of Providian stock just before the share price dropped. Went on to become George Bush's fraud buster, charged with restoring faith in American business ethics.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>... and they say Americans don't do irony?!</FONT></SPAN></P><BR><BR>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800080 size=2>[Excerpt taken from YOU ARE HERE by Rory Bremner, John Bird & John Fortune with Geoff Atkinson (published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4 November 2004)]</FONT></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></U></I></U></I></SPAN></I></SPAN></DIV></DIV><p>
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