Weren't you still up and posting Tom?
I knew Ed took major offense.
We were discussing this:

WALL STREET JOURNAL:

BUSH SR. IN BUSINESS WITH BIN LADEN FAMILY CONGLOMERATE
THROUGH CARLYLE GROUP

FAMILY HAD RENOUNCED TIES TO TERRORIST SON BUT FAMILY STILL UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION

FATHER OF PRESIDENT SHOULD PULL OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM
http://www.JudicialWatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1624

> (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that

> investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with

> disbelief to The Wall Street Journal report of yesterday that George H.W.

> Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business

> in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm.

> The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top

> Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former

> Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had

> supposedly been 3disowned2 by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar

> business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush1s firm.

> Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family

> have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported

> yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business1s bank

> records.

> Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush1s

> father1s association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5

> statement that it was a 3conflict of interest (which) could cause problems

> for America1s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia.2 Judicial Watch called

> for the senior Bush to resign from the firm then.

> 3This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the

> President1s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company

> under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is

> horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull

> out of the Carlyle Group,2 stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General

> Counsel Larry Klayman.

> 3This has the potential of making 'Billygate1 (Jimmy Carter1s brother1s
> dealings with Libya) look like small potatoes,

Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton.

> See "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to
> Ties to U.S. Bank," by Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The

> Wall Street Journal, 9/28/01 (www.wsj.com, subscription required).