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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (434190)	7/26/2003 11:15:20 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

We've already proved that we have a problem with seeing dead or even alive captured Americans on TV by screaming bloody hell on international news networks. So why do we now act like hypocrites? Why give them another reason to hate us that much more? If someone does not believe you cause it doesn't trust you showing dead mutilated corpses will make no freaking difference. And that's already happened (read CNN news). The majority of the Iraqis do not believe the picture footage of the mutilated bodies but instead are calling the US thugs and barbarians and criminals. Like they needed more reasons to kill Americans. “America claims it is civilized but is behaving like a thug.” The only thing that comes close for Bush's actions to compare us to would be the Cosa Nostra (Italian Mafia). Message 19148061

To: sandintoes who wrote (434190)	7/26/2003 11:17:55 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Lessons From the Killing of Uday and Qusay By Amr Mohammed Al-Faisal Last week, US forces surrounded and killed the sons of president Saddam Hussein. I have never been a supporter of Saddam Hussein or his regime. Nor do I wish them well today. However, the way that Uday and Qusay were killed needs to be examined carefully so as to derive useful lessons. Let me briefly recap the events that led to their death. US forces, based on a tip-off from a friend of the Hussein family (in return for a $30 million reward), surrounded a house in Mosul in which Uday, Qusay, his 14-year-old son Mustafa, and one of their supporters had hidden. Some 200 US soldiers backed by helicopter gunships, missiles and mortar shells, attacked the house. After a battle, which lasted six hours, the three men and boy were dead. I was appalled. I have said it before (not in this publication) and I say it again: Western, and especially US, military doctrine is incapable of achieving victory. It took a 50:1 ratio (I am ignoring the helicopters, etc.) of crack (at least that’s what the Americans call them) troops five hours to kill the three men and a boy who were hiding not in a heavily fortified bunker but in a simple villa. What a disgrace! Continues......... arabnews.com