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To: TigerPaw who wrote (4871)	10/7/2002 2:24:29 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

I don't have cable so I never see those shows. Is mange a skin condition? I hope your dog recovers soon. Did you see Falwell on Sixty Minutes last night?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4871)	10/7/2002 2:25:57 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

France, Britain work to narrow gap on Iraq; Bush takes case to people " A poll meanwhile said almost 70 percent of US citizens think Bush should focus more on his country's economy and less on Iraq." asia.news.yahoo.com Tuesday October 8, 12:32 AM PARIS (AFP) - France and Britain worked to narrow a gap in the UN Security Council over a planned resolution on disarming Iraq, as President George W. Bush prepared to take his case for war to the US public. A poll meanwhile said almost 70 percent of US citizens think Bush should focus more on his country's economy and less on Iraq. Tens of thousands of people took to US streets Sunday on the eve of Bush's TV address to protest his threats to invade Iraq. But in Congress legislators appeared to fall in line behind the president's uncompromising stance. According to the New York Times and CBS television joint poll, some 69 percent of those asked thought Bush should be paying more attention to the economy, against 27 percent satisfied with the president's efforts on the issue. Only 41 percent approved of the way Bush was handling the fragile US economy, Bush's lowest marks yet in that sphere. In Paris, talks between British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and his French counterpart Dominique de Villepin focused on narrowing differences over a proposed UN Security Council resolution on Iraq. Straw was in Paris to press the case for a single UN resolution mandating the return of weapons inspectors to Iraq -- as advocated by Washington and London -- and authorising force if they are prevented from working. France has been urging a two-step process, with a first resolution detailing the inspectors' mission and a second on military action to be passed later only if they are obstructed. Officials on both sides said there was room for accommodation between the two approaches. According to French officials, a likely compromise would be a tough resolution on the return of inspectors that contains an implicit threat to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but does not automatically trigger military force. In New York, at least 15,000 people led by some top Hollywood stars gathered in Central Park on Sunday to denounce Washington's bid to oust Saddam. The protest was one of a string of demonstrations organised by a group dubbed "Not In Our Name," a coalition of anti-war activists. Saddam himself meanwhile pledged never to abandon his country and the defence of its independence. He said it was impossible for him to "renounce the mission of defending the independence of Iraq and leave it a prey to foreign powers. "We have accepted (this mission) with joy, and it is impossible to renounce it and allow the outside world to govern us," he said in a meeting with Defence Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmad. Earlier, Baghdad's top diplomat at the United Nations, Mohammad al-Duri, said Iraq would consider a new Security Council resolution and allow inspections at sensitive presidential sites. "We are not rejecting any resolutions of the Security Council," he told the US television network ABC, although the Iraqi government had previously ruled out any new conditions before weapons inspectors return to Baghdad. While the five veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council are unable to reach agreement over how to deal with Iraq, UN chief arms inspector Hans Blix has been forced to delay the return of disarmament inspectors. After a week of intense diplomacy, Washington and London still lack sufficient support to pass a single resolution and may be forced to agree to the French two-step proposal, US and UN officials told AFP. With lawmakers debating the issue in Congress this week, Democratic Senate Minority leader Thomas Daschle told NBC television he expected the measure Bush wanted would be adopted with broad bipartisan support. "We will first attempt to use every diplomatic means available ... we ought to, if no other option is available ... use preemptive force unilaterally if necessary," he added. asia.news.yahoo.com