Dubya's Empty Pockets!

What does Bush keep in his pockets?

President Bush may be burdened with the world's problems, but his pockets are pretty light.It turns out the leader of the free world doesn't have to worry about carrying all the essentials of the common man.Bush revealed the contents of his pockets Tuesday to an Argentine newspaper reporter who was interviewing him in advance of a presidential trip to Latin America later this week.

When the reporter from La Nacion asked Bush to show him what he carries, the president stood up, fished in his pockets, then dramatically pulled his hands out holding nothing but a white handkerchief that he waved playfully in the air."Es todo," Bush told the Spanish-speaking reporter, meaning the handkerchief was all. "No dinero, no mas. No wallet."He doesn't need any cash, since his staff takes care of buying anything he might need. He carries no cell phone, either, since he is surrounded by aides who take care of dialing his calls.

And why would he need keys since every door is held open for him and his car comes with a driver trained by the Secret Service?The Argentine reporter, who interviewed Bush at the White House with other journalists from the Latin American media, asked the president if he even had a watch."Si, Timex," Bush said, thrusting out his wrist to show off a timepiece that had his middle initial, W, on the face. "But I'm not supposed to be endorsing products."

See no Evil, Hear no Evil , Speak no Evil !

Epitomised by Gandhiji through his 3 monkeys,who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil ,this tenet stills holds good even after a good five decades post Independence. Topping the list are our beloved internal agencies,political honchos and bureaucrats , who have made it a point to follow Gandhiji's philiosophy at all costs.

The rate at which scams are being exposed today is phenomenal.(Ripley's might as well add it to their list).Well the most recent one is the Volcker Report , which suggests that the major beneficiaries in the payoffs related to the UN oil for food program include the Congress party and our Foreign Minister Mr. Natwar Singh. The list is unending, Mitrokhin archives which again had the Congress and Left parties under the scanner, the infamous Hawala scams, Bofors etc etc, the list is unending. As a matter of fact the above list only includes scams initiated in deals and arrangements with foreign entities, if we sit and count the internal scams, we have to start a new department.

But there is a certain change post 2000, most of these scams are being reported by foreign instituted panels, which as i see is pretty surprising. Is this a ploy by foreign countries to ruffle the political environment in India or its just that our agencies and a few responsible persons are following the aforementioned policy of see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.Kudos to our daredevil news channels like AAJTAK , who have taken it on themselves to expose these scams.
In lighter vein i suggest that we outsource our scam investigation and enquiry to a department abroad.