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To: moufassa7 who wrote (12603)	4/10/2003 9:34:03 AM
From: moufassa7	Respond to of 13660

I wish CNBS would quit carping about YHOO supporting the tech stocks today. YHOO is a media company, not a tech stock.

To: moufassa7 who wrote (12603)	4/10/2003 10:12:25 AM
From: tsigprofit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13660

Moufassa, you are joking, right? I post an opinion, and get called multiple names from a few right wing wackos that frequent your group now. I post something silly in response, and you chastise me? Give me a break. Why don't you tell everyone the same thing - including yourself. I posted yesterday that I heard that there were estimates of up to 100,000 Iraqi military killed in this war - not civilians, but military, and you immediately disputed this. I then got many posts asking for links, hostile posts, etc. I then looked up a statement from our own govt. concerning the 1991 Gulf War, with the same kind of estimates, and this was dismissed as "old information". That sounds like unintelligent 3rd grade stuff to me. >> tsi, please post more intelligently. This is not a 3rd grade recess class.

To: moufassa7 who wrote (12603)	4/10/2003 12:23:02 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 13660

Who got it right and who got it wrong? from The Daily Telegraph ^ \| 10/04/2003 \| Editorial telegraph.co.uk The following are predictions made by politicians and commentators at home and abroad regarding the likely course of the war in Iraq. Some were made before hostilities broke out on March 20 and some around March 30, when the rapid US advance towards Baghdad paused on the Euphrates river. The commentators Robert Fisk, The Independent, April 2: The Iraqi army's defences seem impenetrable. Robert Fisk: Anyone who doubts that the Iraqi army is prepared to defend its capital should take the highway south of Baghdad. How, I kept asking myself, could the Americans batter their way through these defences? The Americans may say they are 'degrading' the country's defences, but there was little sign of that here Wednesday. Correlli Barnett, author of The Great War, writing in The Daily Mail, April 3: We were told that as Saddam's regime collapsed under the American hi-tech attack, the Iraqi people were going to rise up against him. They were going to welcome the American invaders with joy. They were going to brim over with gratitude for the priceless gift of 'democracy'. But instead, we see the deeply-angered Iraqi people rallying behind Saddam in defence of their land against a foreign invader - just as in 1941, the Russian people rallied behind an even more awful tyrant, Josef Stalin, in resisting the Nazi invaders. Richard Littlejohn, columnist, The Sun, Jan 14: This war could last for decades. Simon Jenkins, columnist, The Times, Mar 28: Baghdad will be near impossible to conquer. Andrew Stephen, New Statesman, Mar 31: And they thought it was going to be so easy. They really did believe it: that troops would be welcomed in Iraq, with flowers and hugs and kisses, as liberators for whom they had been waiting so long. John Pilger in the Daily Mirror, April 5: [The Iraqis] are not keeping to the script; and their extraordinary resistance against such overwhelming odds has required intensified propaganda in Washington and London. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The politicians George Galloway, an anti-war Labour MP: I don't believe these wolves [Bush and Blair] will be able to enter Baghdad and occupy Iraq. Tam Dalyell, Labour MP: President Bush and the Prime Minister may find the biggest weapon of mass destruction before the gates of Baghdad is the April sun. Tony Benn, Mar 25: The US has miscalculated. It seems that the Iraqis are comfortably waiting for the Americans to arrive in order to choose the appropriate time to attack. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Americans R W Apple, New York Times, April 1: Street by street fighting in the rubble of Baghdad and other cities - an eventuality that American strategists have long sought to avoid - now looks more likely. Saddam's aides have promised savage resistance. If it materialises, it could produce large coalition casualties, challenging American resolve, and equally large Iraqi civilian casualties, with dire consequences for the coalition's attempt to picture itself as the liberator of Iraq. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The French and the Germans Editorial, Marianne, Mar 31: The Iraqis are resisting, bitterly, fiercely. The army is holding firm. The 'crusaders' have not met any happy crowds. Article in Die Zeit, April 3: It was supposed to be a stroll. Now a long bloody war is threatening in Iraq. Claude Imbert, editor of Le Point Mar 28: This expedition of Bush is fuzzy, erratic and in its objectives fantastical. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Complied by Michael Kallenbach, Nicola Woolcock, Jonathan Petre, Edward Howker, David Rennie, Philip Delves Broughton and Kate Connolly