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To: lurqer who wrote (29108)	9/29/2003 9:06:00 PM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Go back and read it before quickly closing that imitation of an error message. <g> <ng> It was a joke. The Second Half Recovery cannot be found users.dircon.co.uk

To: lurqer who wrote (29108)	9/29/2003 9:16:18 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

As has been discussed on this thread, there is an urgency in the White House quest for a UN Iraqi resolution - it's next month's Donors' Conference. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Washington wanted the U.N. Security Council to pass the proposed resolution before a conference of aid donors for Iraq, scheduled to open in Madrid on October 23. "The goal is to respond in some ways to the desire of other governments to have a sense of...movement and momentum toward that political horizon, so we will be making appropriate modifications," Boucher told a daily briefing. from reuters.com But upon close examination, Boucher's "political horizon" is lost in the fog. Iraqis involved in the effort to write a new constitution said today that completing the document in six months, the goal set by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell last week, will be impossible to meet because of differences over how to select the drafters and more profound disagreements over the role of Islamic law and the basic contours of a new political system. A committee of lawyers, scholars and religious figures that was supposed to propose a way to select delegates to a constitutional convention has not been able to agree on a preferred method, according to members of the country's Governing Council and others familiar with the process. The committee is scheduled to present a report to the council on Tuesday that will outline several options instead of endorsing a single approach, the members said. By shifting the decision to the 24-member Governing Council, which could choose to debate the issue or kick it back to the committee, the members said the selection process has effectively been delayed for weeks, if not months. from washingtonpost.com JMO lurqer