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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (963)	1/12/2003 12:43:34 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

That won't happen because the current administration will never turn over documents.

To: PartyTime who wrote (963)	1/12/2003 12:51:34 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

This doesn't seem as though it would be effective...http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/01/11/sproject.irq.email/index.html U.S. e-mail attack targets key Iraqis From CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr Saturday, January 11, 2003 Posted: 6:39 AM EST (1139 GMT) WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. military and other U.S. government agencies have begun a surreptitious e-mail campaign inside Iraq, CNN has learned, in an effort to get some Iraqis to defy President Saddam Hussein. U.N. inspectors Saturday resumed their search for signs that Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction, visiting at least five sites, including two medical supplies warehouses and a facility that produces veterinary drugs, according to the Iraqi Ministry of Information. The developments came as the United States ordered the deployment of 35,000 more troops to the region and a UK Royal Navy taskforce was setting sail to underline the "clear and credible" threat of force facing Saddam Hussein if he refuses to give up his weapons of mass destruction. Thousands of e-mail messages have been sent out since Thursday, a military source told CNN. The official says "this is just the beginning of a psychological warfare campaign" to convince the Iraqi leadership they cannot win a war against the United States and its allies. The message includes instructions to the e-mail recipients to contact the United Nations in Iraq if they want to defect. Senior military sources told CNN this was the first time the military had engaged in this type of "information warfare campaign." Sources say the program was developed by the military and intelligence agencies in recent weeks. The disguised e-mails, being sent to key Iraqi leaders, urge them to give up, to dissent and to defect. If they do not, the messages warn, the United States will go to war against them. The U.S. military and intelligence officials were apparently hoping that the Iraqis do not realize where the e-mails are coming from. One official tells CNN the Pentagon wanted "to preserve this capability as long as possible," but once the e-mail campaign was discovered it would be acknowledged publicly. The official also says the United States acknowledges that Iraq may have already shut off some Internet gateways to prevent the e-mails from getting through. He said these same types of messages will now be sent by radio broadcast in the days ahead from U.S. airborne and ground platforms. CNN learned about the operation Friday afternoon, and was initially asked not to report on it by senior Bush administration officials. Those officials later decided the information could be released.

To: PartyTime who wrote (963)	1/12/2003 1:23:17 PM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Obvious to many, Bush is playing fire on his foreign policy moves. From the unilateral decision to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to the decision on "Preempt" strike on a much smaller nation under the name of eliminating "WMD". America's quickly losing its western allies as well as its Arab friends and draw protests around the world. (N. Korea problem is just one of the side effects and was born under this situation). Clearly, Bush administration's foreign policies create serious risks to the world peace and further danger for the American people themselves, not to mention the financial and domestic political costs. Do the American people feel safer and enjoy more freedom at home and travel abroad today than yesterday even assuming Iraq was taken over by the U.S.? Obviousely, just the opposite. The only foreign government that urge U.S. to wage war on Iraq is Israel, everyone already sees that. Their lobby group has the most powerful say on the U.S. foreign especially the Middle East policy making, not the President, as I can see.