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To: LindyBill who wrote (42435)	9/6/2002 10:06:42 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Catching up on the news, we got this: Bush Calls World Leaders on Iraq Ahead of a Vote in U.N. nytimes.com The White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said Presidents Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, Jiang Zemin of China and Jacques Chirac of France all conversed with Mr. Bush with a spirit "of openness, of willingness to listen." The article has the following amusing caption to go with a photo of W on the horn: President Bush spoke with world leaders in back-to-back phone calls that lasted 30 minutes altogether. Whoa. That's 10 minutes each. Wonder how much of that was the translators wrestling with "crawfishing", "stiffing", "wheedling", "sidestepping", etc. Meanwhile, checking out the alleged hot news of the moment on Yahoo, all that comes up is a photo with this caption: Five U.S. Air Force F-16 'Fighting Falcon' jets fly in formation over the U.S. enroute to an exercise in this undated photograph. The Pentagon September 6, 2002 dismissed a British newspaper report that 100 U.S. and British warplanes conducted a major air raid against an airfield in western Iraq that could be a prelude to war. (Staff Sgt. Greg L. Davis/USAF via Reuters) story.news.yahoo.com What would the Pentagon know about it, though, unless they called up Perle to check first? Or maybe they should have checked Debka. Among the many other stories, this one caught my eye. Senior Turkish official leads delegation to Iraq in defiance of Washington story.news.yahoo.com Openly defying Washington's bid for backing to oust Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites), a large Turkish delegation arrived in Baghdad Friday with a clear message: diplomatic — not military — pressure should be used to douse threats of a new U.S.-led war in Iraq.

To: LindyBill who wrote (42435)	9/6/2002 10:13:19 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Congress Now Promises to Hold Weeks of Hearings About Iraq nytimes.com One more story on W's too clever squeeze play. Congressional leaders said today that they would undertake weeks of hearings and debate on whether to support military action against Iraq, a move that could delay a final vote until after the November elections. "I'm more concerned about getting this done right than getting it done quickly," said Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic majority leader, a day after President Bush agreed to seek congressional approval before any invasion. Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Republican minority leader, also made it clear that he did not favor forcing a quick vote, although on Wednesday Congressional and administration leaders had predicted that the debate could be concluded by early October. . . . Mr. Lott, the Republican leader, said that Congress might also need to give the United Nations time to deliberate the issue. A final vote in Congress may not come until this fall or even next year, he said. "It could take a little more time than just two or three weeks," Mr. Lott told reporters this morning. "So we just have to see. I don't think we should put a time line on it. I think we should do what is necessary when it is necessary."