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Did Bush and Cheney "Order" the Great Blackout? YOU BET THEY DID!

Cheryl Seal | 16.08.2003 01:07 | Analysis | London | World

The timing was way too convenient - just days to weeks before crucial votes on Bush's sweeping energy plan and Clear Skies Initiative - both designed to dramatically overempower and expand the fossil-fuel-driven electrical power generating industry. Afterall, if the 9/11 disaster got G.W. the Patriot Acts, why shouldn't a massive power outage get him "Energy Acts"?

Cheryl Seal