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To: American Spirit who wrote (466097)	9/28/2003 3:08:11 AM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

I never claimed that 2 million children were killed by UN Sanctions. Only YOU claim anyone said that. I said that Iraq claimed close to 2 million people were killed by Sanctions (actually the claim was a little over 1.6 million about 2 years ago). It was UNICEF that claimed that > 500,000 more children died in Iraq while Sanctions were in place than before Sanctions. You should really at least attempt to understand this, as it is one of the reasons that OBL declared war on the United States (during the Clinton Administration), and therefore one of the reasons why 9/11 happened. Now, OBL and Saddam's claims were false (blaming the U.S. and the UN for those deaths), but if you can't understand the complaint, you can't counter the argument. re:" So now you guys believe Saddam Hussein's outrageous claims? Cant have it both ways. No 2 million kids died in Iraq. Fess up. 500,000 die in any third world country over ten years. "

To: American Spirit who wrote (466097)	9/28/2003 7:08:08 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769667

A War is Nice on the Résumé, but It May Not Get You the Job By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: September 28, 2003 ASHINGTON — Those who hope, or fear, that the title "general" will catapult Wesley K. Clark into the White House might want to look up Adm. George Dewey, whose defense of the American occupation of the Philippines made him the media darling of his time. ......... Now General Clark has the distinction of being the first general to run a full-scale presidential campaign since Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. Not counting, that is, the general who ran for the Republican nomination in 1988: Alexander M. Haig Jr. Remember him? ..... nytimes.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (466097)	9/28/2003 7:52:45 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

liberal washington post looking at this liberal demohack: Democratic consultant Bill Carrick points to Davis's struggle to solidify the Latino vote as an example. A year ago, Davis vetoed a Democratic bill to allow illegal immigrants to obtain drivers' licenses. A few weeks ago, he signed a similar bill -- but one lacking some of the security safeguards included in the original measure. "For over a year, he was being beat up in Spanish-language media," Carrick said, "and now he's trying to repair the damage in a few weeks." For the broad electorate, these factional and personal battles probably weigh less than Davis's role in the energy blackouts and electricity rate increases of 2001, and his responsibility for the gaping budget deficit the state has faced. Those issues dominate the reasons voters give in focus groups and polls for viewing him as a failed leader -- dropping his job approval rating to a low of 22 percent a few months ago. ......... As for the fundraising, the stories are endless and well-publicized, including reports in California newspapers of Davis demanding $1 million from the teachers union president in a state Capitol conference on school legislation, of sneaking through the bushes to avoid being photographed at a donor's home, and of raising campaign money in New York on a visit billed as a pilgrimage to the site of the World Trade Center. washingtonpost.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (466097)	9/28/2003 8:18:08 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

A new hang-up for Sen. John F. Kerry's presidential campaign: He is getting stood up at Meetup.com. Trying to emulate Howard Dean's vast success on the Internet, Kerry's campaign in June entered into a partnership with Meetup.com, the Web site Dean has used to assemble and organize thousands of people around the country. But it has not gone well in cyberspace. "Not enough Kerry Supporters near Manchester-Nashua-Concord, N.H., can make it, so this month's Meetup is cancelled," Meetup announced on its Web site before Thursday's Kerry meeting in the first primary state. According to Meetup statistics, this has been part of a troubling pattern for Kerry. In July, about 3,000 Kerry fans attended 125 Meetup events across the country, while 352 were canceled. In August, about 2,100 fans attended 114 events, while 300 were canceled. And in September, only about 1,500 attended 89 events, while a whopping 481 were canceled because fewer than five people had confirmed their attendance. The Dean numbers show the opposite. In July, about 25,000 people attended 315 events, with 213 canceled. In August, 33,000 appeared at 384 events, with 222 canceled. And in September, fully 40,000 attended 664 events; 205 were canceled. The Dean triumph has been slightly marred by word of foul play in New York at a Kerry Meetup last week. Sixty people were to attend an event at a coffeehouse on Broadway, but signs on the door directed them to a different -- and fictitious -- address. ........ Al Sharpton, the preacher turned presidential candidate, offered an innovative proposal at last week's Democratic debate. "I would not do anything that would jeopardize America," he said. "But I think things like F-11 bombers and other unnecessary military equipment, we need to take the money away." Sharpton is certainly correct that eliminating the F-11 bomber would not jeopardize America. There is no F-11 bomber in the Pentagon's inventory. There was an F-111 fighter-bomber, but the Clinton administration retired that one. It's possible Sharpton was thinking of the F-117 stealth fighter. Sharpton's campaign is researching his Delphic utterance. ......... Only a couple of weeks after former Gore strategist Chris Lehane quit the Kerry campaign, Lehane's wife, San Francisco lawyer Andrea Evans, has agreed to work for Wesley K. Clark's campaign. Evans will serve as a liaison between the communications and policy shops in Clark's nascent campaign in Little Rock; there, she'll join Mary Jacoby, who quit her job with the St. Petersburg Times's Washington bureau last week to be a Clark spokeswoman. Quotable "I aspire to inspire before I expire." washingtonpost.com