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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (389572)	4/10/2003 5:15:58 PM
From: David Howe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<< lying about somebody having weapons >> You actually believe this? You're not just using it as a potential hiccup if they can't find them? You do know that the UN's weapon inspectors found TONS of anthrax and mustard gas, right? Dave

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (389572)	4/10/2003 5:23:28 PM
From: Gus	Respond to of 769670

Do you know what a golfing mulligan is, Lizzie? It's the golfing term for 'do over' and pretending that the previous wayward shot didn't count. As a golfer Clinton is infamous for his mulligans. He keeps on getting away with it because a} he is ex-POTUS; b) he is the hubby of a POTUS wannabe; and, c) he encourages the people he plays with to take generous mulligans too. Practical result? Runaway golf score inflation.<g> The Clinton administration was one of the most corrupt US administrations in history. Not surprisingly, his Power without Character ethos encouraged the Wealth without Character ethos in Corporate America in the 1990s. You can see this most clearly in the rapid deterioration of the quality of our accounting system and the radical steps that are being taken NOW to repair the serious damage. Any investor who is interested in conserving capital and making it grow can see this. Why can't you?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (389572)	4/10/2003 5:26:03 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 769670

Funny how more than 80% of Americans can see the light so clearly & the lunatic fringe calls it a lie.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (389572)	4/10/2003 5:31:47 PM
From: Dr. Doktor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You mourn the loss of your hero Saddam? BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Marines may have found weapons-grade plutonium in a massive underground facility discovered beneath Iraq's Al Tuwaitha nuclear complex, an embedded reporter told Fox News Thursday. Coalition forces are investigating a stash of radioactive material found at the site south of Baghdad, the reporter, Carl Prine of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, told Fox News. The material was discovered at the complex, which is operated by the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission and is located south of Baghdad's suburbs. While officials aren't prepared to call the discovery a "smoking gun," two preliminary tests conducted on the material have indicated that it may be weapons-grade plutonium. The discovery of the underground labyrinth of labs and warehouses was unexpected, Fox News has confirmed, and forces in the area are testing a variety of things to best determine the significance of the find. So far, Marine nuclear and intelligence experts have found 14 buildings that have high levels of radiation, Prine reported Thursday. His report noted that some of the tests have found nuclear residue too deadly for human contact. The Marine radiation detectors go "off the charts" a few hundred meters outside the nuclear compound, where locals say "missile water" is stored in enormous caverns, reported Prine, who is embedded with the U.S. 1st Marine Division. "It's amazing," Chief Warrant Officer Darrin Flick, the battalion's nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist told the newspaper. "I went to the off-site storage buildings, and the rad detector went off the charts. Then I opened the steel door, and there were all these drums, many, many drums, of highly radioactive material." This underground discovery could still test to be perfectly legitimate and offer no proof of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. The CIA encouraged international inspectors in the fall of 2002 to probe Al Tuwaitha for weapons of mass destruction, and the inspectors came away empty-handed. "They went through that site multiple times, but did they go underground? I never heard anything about that," physicist David Albright, a former IAEA Action Team inspector in Iraq from 1992 to 1997, told the Tribune-Review. "The Marines should be particularly careful because of those high readings," he told the paper. "Three hours at levels like that and people begin to vomit. That leads me to wonder, if the readings are accurate, whether radioactive material was deliberately left there to expose people to dangerous levels. "You couldn't do scientific work in levels like that. You would die." Capt. John Seegar, a combat engineer commander from Houston, is currently running the operation in Al Tuwaitha. "I've never seen anything like it, ever," he told the Tribune-Review. "How did the world miss all of this? Why couldn't they see what was happening here?"