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To: John Carragher who wrote (15805)	11/10/2003 6:18:06 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793755

Krauthaumer says the roots of anti americanism worldwide "are envy and self-loathing". Within the US, it seems to me, they are guilt and self loathing at being citizens of "modernity's great exemplar." To adapt Paul Simon's words a bit--"when i think back on all that crap i learned in college--its a wonder I can think at all." 30 years of left wing propaganda brings us Al Gore. UCH! I am off to read Franklin and Winston. Better then than now. Mike

To: John Carragher who wrote (15805)	11/10/2003 7:00:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793755

I am always suspicious when I read about an Airborne drop of this size. Why not go in by chopper? Everybody wants to get a "combat jump." __________________________________________ U.S. Forces in Airborne Assault on Rebels in 2 Afghan Areas By CARLOTTA GALL NEW YORK TIMES ABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 10 — American forces opened a large-scale airborne assault against suspected Taliban and other antigovernment forces in two mountainous northeastern provinces over the weekend, a United States military spokesman said today. The assault is the first big sweep by the American military against these fighters in the remote mountains of the Hindu Kush, and it suggests that militants have spread their influence to new areas. Soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division were dropped by air on Friday into Kunar and Nuristan provinces "to clear the area of anticoalition and antigovernment fighters," an American military spokesman, Col. Rodney Davis, said in a brief press statement. Local residents and aid workers had been reporting increased air and vehicle activity in the area for several days. Forces loyal to a renegade commander, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has declared a holy war against American forces in Afghanistan, are thought to be present in the area and may be the target of the operation. United States troops based in Kunar Province have come under repeated rocket attacks in recent months. Both provinces share a rugged mountainous border with Pakistan, where sympathy for the Taliban and Mr. Hekmatyar remains strong. nytimes.com

To: John Carragher who wrote (15805)	11/11/2003 12:56:07 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793755

The difference in old and new Gore is now the Far Left has ahold of him.... check out: moveon.org, and American Constitution Society in google........ Moveon wants to fire Rumsfeld, and turn over any money the US would send to Iraq to the UN.........(See my next post about the UN and it's accomplishments....)

To: John Carragher who wrote (15805)	11/11/2003 12:58:45 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793755

U.N. Unit Details Iran's Clandestine Nuclear Program 'No Evidence' That Weapons Were Sought By Joby Warrick and Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, November 11, 2003; Page A01 [ 18 YEARS--Now there's competence for you!!!--NOT! Iran manufactured small amounts of enriched uranium and plutonium as part of a nuclear program that operated in secret for 18 years, according to a confidential report by a U.N. agency. The report harshly criticizes Iran for deliberately hiding evidence of its nuclear program from international inspectors and for numerous "breaches" in its nuclear treaty obligations. The 29-page report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says there is "no evidence" so far that Iran had sought to build a nuclear bomb, as asserted by the Bush administration, but the U.N. watchdog said it would keep investigating this claim. Given Iran's "past pattern of concealment, it will take some time before the agency is able to conclude that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes," the report says. The report's catalogue of Iran's nuclear activities shows that the Islamic republic had made significant strides in a program that until last year was barely understood by the outside world. The report, obtained by The Washington Post, documents numerous occasions when Iranian officials altered or reversed their explanations after being challenged by investigators or with conflicting evidence. "Iran has now acknowledged that it has been developing, for 18 years, a uranium centrifuge program, and, for 12 years, a laser enrichment program," the report says, referring to two of the leading technologies for making fissile material for nuclear power plants or weapons. "In that context Iran has admitted that it produced small amounts of LEU [low-enriched uranium], using both centrifuge and laser enrichment processes . . . and a small amount of plutonium." Iran maintains that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes. The report says that Iran made the plutonium between 1988 and 1992 at the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, a laboratory in the capital. Iran said the plutonium was produced during experiments intended to "gain experience in reprocessing chemistry," the IAEA report says. The equipment used in the experiment was dismantled in 1992. Rest at: washingtonpost.com