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To: Rascal who wrote (42182)	9/5/2002 1:54:48 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 281500

"With all this technology, wouldn't you think we would know what is going on in Iraq?"Absolutely, positively. The US has technology to spy through the bunkers we built for Hussein and catch him praying really hard to Allah that his country be spared invasion.

To: Rascal who wrote (42182)	9/5/2002 2:00:57 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hey, you forgot my wife's favorite, Saddam stiffed us. If W wants to go down with Lincoln and Churchill, as Cohen would have it, he ought better get a new speech writer before he makes the big one. A modestly humorous aside on that front: Saddam 'Crawfished, ' Bush Says in Verbal Attack nytimes.com After a month's vacation at his Texas ranch, President Bush let loose at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday with a blast of down-home rhetoric. ``For 11 long years Saddam Hussein has sidestepped, crawfished, wheedled out of any agreement that he had made,'' Bush told reporters on Wednesday, launching a new verb if not a military strike at Iraq. Back in Washington after spending August in Texas, Bush was outlining plans to seek the support of Congress and the United Nations for action against Saddam. ``I'm going to call upon the world to recognize that he is stiffing the world,'' Bush said at a meeting on Iraq with congressional leaders. Bush's rhetorical blast undoubtedly led to head-scratching in foreign capitals, where he is trying to make his case clear for ousting Saddam. ``Crawfished'' refers to the freshwater crustacean -- also known as a crayfish, crawdad or mudbug -- and its knack for scurrying into a hole when discovered. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, asked about the term, rattled off a list of previous Iraqi commitments to disarm. ``This is what Saddam Hussein has tried his best to slither out of, as the president put it, 'to crawfish out of,''' Fleischer said. ``Wheedle'' means to entice using flattery or guile. ``Stiffing'' means shortchanging, or failing to pay what one owes. Waiters will complain of being stiffed by a diner who leaves a paltry tip. The president, who has long cloaked his Connecticut Yankee roots with the plain-speaking style of his adoptive Texas, often turns to vivid, folksy language, sometimes of his own invention, when he gets feisty and wants to rally opposition. In 2001 he said he wanted Islamic militant Osama bin Laden ``dead or alive,'' in the style of an Old West wanted poster. He has denounced the Sept. 11 attackers as ``evildoers,'' and labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea as part of an ``axis of evil.''