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To: lurqer who wrote (29254)	10/1/2003 11:40:07 AM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

It has become a race. The Admin sponsored attempt to "steamroll" the $87 billion spending authorization through by Friday of this week, before opposition can build. Key Senate Republicans as well as Democrats said Tuesday that part of a multibillion-dollar aid package for rebuilding Iraq should be a loan rather than a grant. The demand signifies that President Bush will have a harder time getting his $87 billion request for Iraq and Afghanistan through Congress unscathed. from usatoday.com Cheney's MIC (Military Industrial Complex) cronies don't want any "loan". They want a "cash pie up front". JMO lurqer