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To: Neeka who wrote (95823)	4/23/2003 4:59:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As a side note: I had no idea that Krauthammer used a wheel chair. I had no idea he did either. He looked a lot worse than the last time I saw him. I tried to pull up facts on his health, and found nothing.

To: Neeka who wrote (95823)	4/23/2003 5:00:53 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

''It's clear that Mr. Gingrich is off his meds and out of therapy.'' That ex-seal is exactly what he looks like. A bulldog.

To: Neeka who wrote (95823)	4/23/2003 5:07:06 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Here is what Krauthammer had to say. washingtonpost.com Lift the Sanctions Now By Charles Krauthammer Monday, April 21, 2003; Page A23 The Iraqi economy is devastated, the people destitute, the country desperately awaiting reconstruction. Fortunately, Iraq has oil. Perversely, it cannot sell its oil because it is still technically under the U.N. sanctions imposed in 1990 on Saddam Hussein for his invasion of Kuwait and kept in place when he refused to get rid of his weapons of mass destruction. All we need to get suffering Iraqis on the road to recovery is to lift the embargo and let them sell their oil. Not so fast, says Russia's foreign minister. "This decision cannot be automatic. For the Security Council to take this decision, we need to be certain whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not." In the history of diplomacy going back to, oh, Babylonian times, it is hard to find a pronouncement as cynical. washingtonpost.com

To: Neeka who wrote (95823)	4/23/2003 6:09:18 PM
From: LLLefty	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

>>As a side note: I had no idea that Krauthammer used a wheel chair.<< K suffered a spinal cord injury in a diving accident when he was in his early 20s and has been in a wheel chair since. BTW, he grew up in Montreal and got his degree from McGill, later his MD from Harvard and practiced psychiatry at Mass Gen. As I recall, he came to Wash to work for the Carter Admin, yes Carter, in something to do with mental health and shortly decided political writing was for him. Won the Pulitzer in his first year as a syndicated columnist. He's not an uncommon sight visiting the Smithsonian museums with son. Interestingly, he's at odds with Reeves, whom he believes deludes people into thinking a cure is around the corner.