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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: willcousa who wrote (24159)	4/10/2003 11:10:22 AM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 25898

w re: suggested last night that if France, Germany and Russia want to really help with Iraqi reconstruction they could easily start by forgiving Iraq's debts do they have a choice now? Russia may have some leverage but france is basically irrelevant and germany is somewhere between .....

To: willcousa who wrote (24159)	4/10/2003 3:22:48 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 25898

"If Tom Daschle could have helped me get a job, how come I'm not ambassador to France?" washingtonmonthly.com That year, Clinton had also nominated three other congressional wives for top government jobs, in a move widely viewed as a shrewdly ingratiating gesture from a president who'd never served in Washington. But Daschle says that not only did she take a pay cut to take the FAA job, she did not seek the position. The Clinton administration asked several times before she finally agreed to take the post. "If Tom Daschle could have helped me get a job, how come I'm not ambassador to France?" she says. In 1993, Linda Daschle took a break from her lobbying career (she was by then senior vice president of the American Association of Airport Executives), when Bill Clinton appointed her to be deputy administrator of the FAA. The job required Senate confirmation, and Daschle's husband joined his colleagues in voting for her unanimously