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To: stockman_scott who wrote (15048)	3/19/2003 8:46:22 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Big businesses with cozy federal deals will rebuild Iraq as needs at home go begging The dichotomy of the president's ambitious postwar plan earmarks $100 million to ensure that Iraq's 25,000 schools have all the supplies and support necessary to "function at a standard level of quality" -- including books and supplies for 4.1 million Iraqi schoolchildren. I'm sure those schools in Oregon that are being forced to shut down a month early due to inadequate funding, or the low-income students in California who are suing the state in a desperate effort to obtain adequate textbooks and qualified teachers, would love to see the same kind of tangible evidence of President Bush's support. And The same goes for our flat-lining public health-care system. While more than a million poor Americans are about to lose their access to publicly funded medical care, the president is in the market for a corporate contractor to oversee a $100-million upgrade of Iraq's hospitals and clinics. will provide a field day for Dems in a political year. OTOH, without an all out effort in Iraq, the occupation is doomed to an early blowup. So the dilemma I discussed earlier. We may have the military for a hegemony, but we don't have the economy. lurqer

To: stockman_scott who wrote (15048)	3/19/2003 10:31:36 PM
From: portage	Respond to of 89467

Get over it, Arianna. What else did you expect from the Butcher of the Beltway ?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (15048)	3/19/2003 11:29:39 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

"the low-income students in California who are suing the state in a desperate effort to obtain adequate textbooks and qualified teachers, would love to see the same kind of tangible evidence of President Bush's support." A very close friend called today to tell me his step son has been handed his walking papers from his job as a teacher in a low income school in the SF Bay area Have known the 'son' for 18+ years..(bright...focused loves teaching.......) he fears he cannot pay his own rent now...still has school loans...ect..(and is newly engaged...) He may have to look .....Overseas........ T

To: stockman_scott who wrote (15048)	3/20/2003 12:03:14 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

U.S. coalition a shadow of its former self But the coalition is a far cry from the alliance that won the 1991 Gulf War by uniting France, Germany, Canada with strategic Gulf allies such as Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar in a show of undisputed resolve and military might. Many coalition nations are poor, and that could force the United States to shoulder far more war costs. globeandmail.com