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To: stockman_scott who wrote (29231)	10/1/2003 2:35:01 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

To those that think that we taught those towelheads a lesson in Iraq and that makes us safer... The United States must drastically increase and overhaul its public relations efforts to salvage its plummeting image among Muslims and Arabs abroad, a panel chosen by the Bush administration has found. "Hostility toward America has reached shocking levels," the panel stated in its report, which will be released Wednesday. "What is required is not merely tactical adaptation but strategic, and radical, transformation." The report added that "spin" and manipulative public relations "are not the answer," but that neither is avoiding the debate. A copy of the report was made available Tuesday to The New York Times. The panel warned that the war in Iraq and the intensified conflict in the Middle East had increased anger at the United States, and that people throughout the world were ignorant of or misinformed about American policies. "A process of unilateral disarmament in the weapons of advocacy over the last decade has contributed to widespread hostility toward Americans and left us vulnerable to lethal threats to our interests and our safety," said the panel, the United States Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World. and more from nytimes.com JMO lurqer

To: stockman_scott who wrote (29231)	10/1/2003 11:44:44 AM
From: Jim Willie CB	Respond to of 89467

Moritsugu and Bryson have a strong grasp on US$ issues beware of the dynamics of change otherwise known as "vicious circles" look for new 3-year dollar lows within days or weeks the next revelation, which may not be learned at all, is that the REFLATION efforts will see their effect on RISING PRODUCTION AND LIVING COSTS while debt default, liquidations, and Chinese competition will keep a lid on PRICING POWER translation: shrinking corp profit margins, reduced household discretionary budgets nobody is reading the writing on the wall because they dont read economic language anymore / jim