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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (113272)	8/29/2003 6:04:03 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

An interview with Geraldo, just back from Iraq, led to the discussion that news is slanted towards the bad and the spectacular. That it was amazing to him to watch elections being held in a city for the first time. That people were out and walking the streets in relative safety under their own police force. And so we get a body count, day after day. And dont forget the $4 bil/mo cost of the Military Thats the magic figure, unchangeable, a solid fact $4 bil/mo, $4bil.mo. Sometimes they get it wrong and say $4 bil week. Is that in addition to their normal pay, to their food, housing and training costs, to their vehicle maintenance costs, in the States?. We should demand facts and a breakdown of those figures from the Press, not just speculation. And if they get it wrong, or get misinterpreted, we can call them liars. Sig

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (113272)	8/29/2003 11:03:31 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Colonel David Hackworth, former tv talking head and a hawk on the war -- and now a critic on the numbers and resources being applied during the occupation phase -- is now in coventry because he referred to Rumsfeld as an asshole; but he has an extensive connection to GI emails. He is prepared to share his emails. His conclusions accord with Maureen Dowd's. Tom Friedman is in the unenviable position of having to justify a war he supported on other grounds, on the new ground that democracy-building in Iraq is both doable and going pretty well, and will change everything in the region... so we should all forget about anybody ever saying anything about WMD; and especially we should forget that WMD was the sole justification for Congressional approval. I hope he's right. Good luck to him.