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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (2216)	3/24/2003 8:12:59 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

The New York Times is doing its share of supporting the war. Its Sunday editorial notes that we should not be worried if we don't find any weapons of mass destruction because they are small sized and can be easily concealed, and even taken out of the country easily. It's nice to have a ready excuse for not finding the original justification for the war. In the business section of the Sunday New York Times, there is an article indicating why companies like Halliburton will have top priority for the lucrative cost plus contracts to be awarded for cleaning up Iraq. It's nice to see a very pro-business administration in power, giving contracts and other favors to friends--and revealing too. Art

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (2216)	3/24/2003 11:24:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

US media keep spieling it: the US war machine's got nothing against the brave Iraqi people... The US war machine is entirely focused on bumping off Iraqi brass and bringing about "regime change" --judge by yourself: Al Bawaba sources: U.S. ensures personal safety of Iraqi FM en route to Cairo 24-03-2003, 15:13 Sources in Cairo have told Al Bawaba.com that the arrival of Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri to attend the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting was coordinated with Washington. Sabri, clad in Arab costume, left Baghdad aboard a car on Saturday and got to Syria early Sunday after traveling hundreds kilometers on dangerous and unsafe roads. The sources mentioned the Sunday incident near the Syrian-Iraqi border as an example for this information. On Sunday morning, just hours after Sabri arrived in Syria, U.S. and British warplanes raided a Syrian passenger bus carrying workers from Iraq back to Syria. Five Syrian civilians were killed instantly. [...] albawaba.com Who knows, perhaps even Saddam Hussein will be next to travel outside Iraq --safely aboard a US-chauffeured Humvee.