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To: lurqer who wrote (13731)	2/28/2003 11:46:03 PM
From: NOW	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

A must read: sorry if its a repost oriononline.org

To: lurqer who wrote (13731)	3/1/2003 1:20:17 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

oil shock makes recession 90% likely this summer imho / jw

To: lurqer who wrote (13731)	3/1/2003 7:25:28 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Some interesting comments from Shibley Telhami... Taking of Iraq Could Create Wider Woes, Scholar Predicts He says millions of Arabs would be angry, motivated by Jonathan Curiel the San Francisco Chronicle Friday, February 28, 2003 commondreams.org <<...Although President Bush believes a war with Iraq will bring democracy to the country and foster democratic reform throughout the Middle East, a scholar of the region says the conflict would create more authoritarianism among Arab regimes desperate to quash dissent, lead to more anti-American sentiment and foment more "demand" for terrorism. Speaking to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland professor, said millions of Arabs would be angered by a post-Hussein Iraq where U.S. troops are keeping order -- and that this resentment would drive more people to lash out at Washington and support groups like Hamas that advocate suicide bombings in Israel and other forms of violence. "There is a supply side and a demand side to terrorism," Telhami said on Wednesday night, in a talk that was recorded for broadcast on National Public Radio. "On the demand side, you have an environment where people are willing to participate, to be recruited, to provide funds, to provide the support that groups (like Hamas) thrive on. If there is this demand, you can destroy a group (or depose a leader) and the demand will create another group the next morning. The problems that give rise to this demand side cannot be addressed militarily."...>> <<...Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of a new book, "The Stakes: America and the Middle East," said that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be a much bigger priority of the Bush administration because so much of the Arab world sees Iraq and other foreign crises "through the Israeli-Palestinian prism." "It is their prism -- in the same way that, since 9/11, the issue of terrorism has become the prism through which Americans are looking at the Middle East and the Islamic world. I've done surveys in five Arab countries. The vast majority of people say the Palestinian issue is the single most important issue to them. "War with Iraq won't change the reality that the Palestinian-Israeli (conflict) will be the key to the fundamental relationship between the United States and the rest of the Middle East." On the subject of Islamic terrorism, Telhami said that "a war in Iraq will lead to more instability and more motivated recruits. Al Qaeda proliferates in areas of instability. States can be deterred and defeated by powerful states, but you can't deter shadowy nonstate groups. "The reality is that, after a year-and-a-half of the most powerful country in the world putting all of its resources on the line . . . most of al Qaeda's fighters (are) hiding not in the states of the 'axis of evil' but in unstable regions of friendly countries -- in Pakistan, in Afghanistan." Telhami, who is the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, said "humiliation" is the biggest factor behind Middle East terrorism. ". . . The driving force in the Middle East today that leads to so many people willing to be recruited into organizations that are willing to use ruthless means to change the status quo is not so much poverty . . . but humiliation and hopelessness," he said...>>

To: lurqer who wrote (13731)	3/1/2003 10:42:56 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Transcript: Bill Moyers Talks with Joseph C. Wilson, IV* 2.28.03 pbs.org *Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV Joseph C. Wilson, IV served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council from June 1997 until July 1998, responsible for the coordination of U.S. policy to the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa. He was a principal architect of President Clinton's historic trip to Africa in March 1998 and a leading proponent of the Africa Trade Bill. Wilson was the Political Advisor to the Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces, Europe, 1995-1997. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe from 1992 to 1995. From 1988 to 1991, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. During "Desert Shield" he was the acting Ambassador and was responsible for the freeing of several hundred American hostages. He was the last official American to meet with Saddam Hussein before "Desert Storm." Currently, Wilson is CEO of JCWilson International Ventures, Corp., a firm specializing in Strategic Management and International Business Development. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC.