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To: Windsock who wrote (173749)	3/23/2003 11:50:10 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OTOT I hate to think what will happen if they don't find any WMDs in iraq. So far, nothing. The news was reporting that the iraqis had Scud missiles but that has been retracted, their missiles were not Scuds.

To: Windsock who wrote (173749)	3/24/2003 11:52:03 AM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 186894

OT - I just saw interviews which took place in northern Iraq with two Iraquis and one al quaida who offered a number of anecdotes about interchange and cooperation. One said that Sadaam met with Al Zawahri, another told of an al quaida assassination carried out for Sadaam. Time will tell.

To: Windsock who wrote (173749)	3/27/2003 7:57:36 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Windsock & John, while traveling, I read in USA Today (Wed's edition) that Nasdaq & NYSE kicked out all the journalists from an Arab newspaper called "aljazeera" who reportedly were stationed for 5 years on the trading floor for news broadcast reporting. Does that violate some type of freedom of speech? Maybe this report is inaccurate? I tried to access english.aljazeera.net figuring if anyone has news on it they would, but their site isn't accessible. I haven't seen other news reports on this - did this really happen? It was in USA Today's Wed (or Tue?) paper edition - but I just checked their website and couldn't find it. So I tend to think the report made was inaccurate. But if the report is accurate, what if foreign countries kick out our journos? Doesn't seem to be a good thing for anyone, if that happens. I think war is indirectly encouraged when countries aren't allowing freedom of speech. If the report is accurate, I hope there won't be any negative repercussions to Nasdaq when the IPO market eventually starts. Last thing I need, is to hunt down new IPO investments in foreign countries. It's easier if most things are listed on Nasdaq. I hope they remember the world's citizens of UK, SKorea, China, India, etc. are against this war, and hope they don't turn away the growth markets for us investors. /* Rant on / I don't think our gov't "gets" how big those markets (C&I) are to us - the USA gov't is so behind the times. Can you believe they put $30B Iraq as a higher priority than China by risking the future USA/China relation thru invalidating the UN - oh boy - just read People's Republic and carefully note the very clever comments regarding how the USA has invalidated the UN - guess what that means? The USA has lost its incredibly valuable (priceless) political chip (i.e. the UN) that could have been used to influence China. That'll give NKorea a free reign and is creating a situation where Japan, China, SKorea, Russia are quietly working their relations, without direct USA involvement. Ouch. (And if anyone thinks the USA is going after Iraq to humanistically "free" Iraq, think about the million that died in Rwonda.) Oil isn't as important as C&I's future markets are to USA businesses (and thus consumers & investors) if you assume the possibility of a futuristic low-gas-consuming car design. Bush could be risking our USA future business prospects. Also heard that foreign countries were removing coke & budweiser from their menus and changing suppliers away from USA. Ouch. The Congressperson who essentially role-modeled unprofessional name-calling of the French, really seemed to set all of this off in motion. Congresspeople should really be way more* careful about negatively impacting USA businesses. Regards, Amy J