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To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/9/2003 3:27:29 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Use your head. Think.

To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/9/2003 3:35:20 PM
From: hueyone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I am saying the likelihood of the U.S. deploying weapons in the manner as described in that Arab news article, and with the results being being as described in the article---"the majority of the victims being civilians, mostly children curious about the small shiny objects which are the same size as a child’s hand", are slim to none. We have the ability to fight much more dicsriminately than that, and we have better weapons than that. And again, what would be the point of indiscriminately murdering small children, when we are tying to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people? It just doesn't make sense GST. arabnews.com Regards, Huey

To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/10/2003 11:11:37 AM
From: craig crawford	Respond to of 164684

>> I see -- so are saying that we have not used cluster bombs? << israel has used american-made cluster bombs to murder innocent lebanese women and children. and we wonder why arabs want to travel thousands of miles to commit suicide attacks against us.

To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/12/2003 8:25:52 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Gst you must be seriously bumming these days... the corrective action in iraq has gone much quicker, smoother and cheaper than you ever could have dreamed... no mortal urban house-to-house-combat as you precdicted.. no n korea nuking the world while the US was "precoccupied" with Iraq... no "quagmire"... no "vietnam" redux... no erosion of US support as thousands of casualties came home in bodybags... Bush approval rating at 71% .. the dollar and stocks have rallied, not crashed.. yet look what HAS happened: ordinary iraqis cheering the coalition troops, the "elite" republican gaurd melts away and does not even fight, high-level iraqi mil officials dead and surrenduring.... WMD being steadily uncovered.. domestic anti-US, pro-saddam protests drying up.. Pro-US, support-the troops demonstrations sharply increasing in frequency and number... foreign fanatic govts getting scared back into behaving themselves... gold has crashed.. the dollar has rallied .. You must be so depressed.... your predictive powers remain very limited, to say the least..

To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/12/2003 9:09:33 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Yet another victory for the Bush Adminstration ? Transmettez mes remerciements à Jacques ! LOL ! AP Finance News Finance Leaders Back U.N. Postwar Plan By HARRY DUNPHY 04/12/2003 17:54:49 EST Finance officials from the seven richest industrial countries agreed Saturday to support a new U.N. Security Council resolution as part of a global effort to rebuild Iraq and promised to begin talks on reducing Iraq's massive foreign debt burden. The launching of talks on debt relief represented a victory for the Bush administration, which is pressing Russia, France and Germany to forgive a part of the debt, estimated at between $60 billion and $100 billion, so a new Iraq government is not burdened with debts run up during Saddam Hussein's regime. The administration, however, backed down from its insistence that there was no need for a new U.N. resolution before the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank could get involved in rebuilding Iraq. Treasury Secretary John Snow, who two days ago had pronounced himself "baffled" at this view, described Saturday's discussions as "excellent" and said he was satisfied with the commitment of all parties to quickly speed financial assistance to Iraq. The talks among the Group of Seven wealthy countries, led by Snow and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, were a prelude to talks at the spring meetings of the 184-nation IMF and World Bank. The G-7 nations are the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy. At the IMF discussions later Saturday, Snow said it was urgent for the "international community to cooperate in providing humanitarian relief to the Iraqi people and laying the groundwork for reconstruction and economic recovery." The policy-setting panel of the IMF issued a communique late Saturday also endorsing a new U.N. Security Council resolution to govern reconstruction in Iraq and pledged that IMF resources would be made available not only to Iraq but to other countries whose economies have been harmed by the war. British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, chairman of the IMF panel, said the new U.N. resolution would deal with such issues as lifting the existing U.N. sanctions and unfreezing the country's assets. Brown said the actual writing of the new resolution should be left to the Security Council. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special adviser on Iraq is due in Washington on Monday to discuss with U.S. officials the U.N.'s role once the fighting ends. Neither the G-7 or the IMF panels ventured estimates of the dollar amounts that will be needed to rebuild Iraq. but the rebuilding needs are expected to be massive with estimates running from $20 billion per year for the first several years to $600 billion over a decade. Snow told reporters he believed he had assurances that the IMF and World Bank would send its staffers into Iraq as soon as it is safe to begin determining the critical needs and start the flow of billions of dollars in loans. Officials have said the first assistance would focus on food, medical needs, water and sanitation and getting schools reopened. Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, wrapping up two days of talks in St. Petersburg, Russia, made it clear Saturday that they believe the United Nations, not the United States, should play the key role in rebuilding Iraq. On the subject of debt, much of it owed to French companies and banks, French Finance Minister Francis Mer said "it will be a long process" to determine the size of Iraq's debt. He said the G-7 countries had pledged to address the issue "calmly, methodically and in a professional manner. We need to get the country back on the road." The administration, anxious about the rising American costs of the war and reconstruction, has promised Congress to get other wealthy countries and international financial institutions involved to the maximum extent possible in the reconstruction effort. "The U.N. has a vital role to play in the reconstruction of Iraq," the White House said in a statement issued Saturday. "We will be talking to Security Council members, friends and allies about that role." The G-7 finance officials, in their joint statement, called on the IMF, which helps countries facing economic crises, and the World Bank, the world's biggest source of development loans, to "play their normal role in rebuilding and developing Iraq." On a broader topic, the G-7 members pledged to bolster their efforts to attack the current sluggish economic growth rates in all of their countries. Japanese officials pledged to deal with the bad loans weighing down the banking system and Europeans promised to step up structural reforms in such areas as inefficient labor markets. Japan and Europe have made such pledges in the past without much result. Snow said the United States "got off light" in the economic discussion because even with the uncertain recovery, the U.S. economy is growing at double the pace of its major allies. He said he told his G-7 colleagues the administration would continue to push to get as much of its $726 billion tax cut through Congress as possible. siliconinvestor.com

To: GST who wrote (155624)	4/12/2003 10:07:39 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 164684

Kuwaitis thank United States for liberating Iraq By Associated Press, 4/12/03 KUWAIT CITY -- Scores of Kuwaitis gathered Saturday outside the U.S. Embassy here to thank coalition forces for liberating neighboring Iraq, a rare sight in Arab countries, most of which oppose the American-led war. "This is the kind of demonstration we like to have," a beaming Ambassador Richard Jones told the crowd of some 50 men, women and children. Kuwaitis stand alone among Arabs in their open support for the war that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime. Iraq invaded this small oil-rich state in August 1990, and an international coalition led by then-President George H.W. Bush forced Iraqi troops out of the country seven months later. "Bush Senior, Bush Junior, you're great," read one of the signs. "U.S.A., we are proud of our friendship," read another. "Dictatorship has no place in the 21st century. It is high time Arabs stop thinking conspiracy and start thinking transparency and economic reform," rally organizer Rula Dashti said. Tens of thousands of Arabs throughout the Middle East have joined protests against the war since the conflict began March 20. Kuwait has been the launch pad for the coalition strike on Iraq. Saddam's forces retaliated by targeting Kuwait with 19 missiles during the first two weeks of the war. Most, however, were intercepted by Patriot missiles or fell harmlessly into the water or the desert.