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To: sylvester80 who wrote (31367)	11/11/2003 7:50:48 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Cheney Inc. Expanding Faster Than the Economy by Andy Borowitz.......... The Vice President created 20,000 jobs for Halliburton in the last quarter NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Nov. 11 — The White House had yet another piece of good economic news to trumpet today, announcing that Vice President Dick Cheney had expanded even faster than the U.S. economy in the quarter just ended. “Our economic policy, including our program of tax cuts for the highest-income brackets, has resulted in the most dramatic expansion of a Vice President in U.S. history,” President George W. Bush said. WHILE BUSH ACKNOWLEDGED that many Americans had yet to reap positive benefits from Cheney’s explosive growth, he said that it was only a matter of time before the Vice President’s surging wealth trickled down to the rest of the country. According to figures released by the White House, Cheney expanded at a torrid 11.2 percent rate in the last quarter, creating over 20,000 new jobs, most of them for Halliburton , the oil and gas company where Cheney had served as chairman and CEO before running for vice president. While economists expressed amazement at Cheney’s unprecedented growth rate, some doubted that his dramatic expansion could be sustained. Advertisement But Charles Donner, chief economist for Credit Suisse First Boston, predicted that the next quarter will also be strong for the vice president, with the completion of an oil and gas pipeline leading directly from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan directly into Cheney’s super-secret underground lair. “With the completion of that pipeline, Dick Cheney will become the second-largest economy in the world,” Mr. Donner said. In other economic news, jobless claims were down overall in October, but way up in one key sector, the coaching staff of the New York Yankees.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (31367)	11/11/2003 8:46:58 PM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

The Post reported on Sunday that U.S. officials are growing increasingly frustrated with the Iraq Governing Council, which has done “nothing of substance” since it was appointed in late August, according to one U.S. official in Baghdad quoted by the newspaper. Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA Ha HA it's the least we can say ... washingtonpost.com Within hours of the release of this story, it was announced that US guards shot and killed the leader of the local Baghdad US-appointed Council, Muhammed Kaabi. American and Iraqi witnesses had differing versions of the shooting. Bacchus alias Gottfried_II