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To: lurqer who wrote (14516)3/13/2003 2:05:43 PM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 89467
 
Arab speaking friend of mine was offered a 1yr contract at $800 a day to be a translator in Kuwait for US army. They are looking for over 1000 such translators.

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If the neo-cons had bothered to do a little "translating" a year ago, we would have been saved a lot of trouble. Their ignorance of the Islamic world is exceeded only by their arrogance. 'Course ignorance and arrogance have long been "bedfellows".

JMO

lurqer



To: lurqer who wrote (14516)3/13/2003 2:21:33 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
This interesting post is from The Foreign Affairs Thread...

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Meeting Assembled By Conyers Mulls Seeking Bush's Impeachment Over Iraq

Thu Mar 13 2003 10:30:03 ET

House Judiciary ranking member John Conyers (D-Mich.) assembled more than two-dozen prominent liberal attorneys and legal scholars on Tuesday to mull over articles of impeachment drafted against President Bush by activists seeking to block military action against Saddam Hussein. ROLL CALL is reporting on Thursday.

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The two-hour session, which featured former attorney general-turned-activist Ramsey Clark, took place in the downtown office of a prominent Washington tort lawyer. Participants said Conyers, who hosted the meeting, was the only Member of Congress to attend. 'We had a pretty frank discussion about putting in a bill of impeachment against President Bush,' said Francis Boyle, an Illinois law professor who has been working on the impeachment language with Clark.

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