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To: unclewest who wrote (18208)	11/30/2003 6:25:27 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793661

Ready, set, and (almost) go for Team Bush in '04 It's nearly giddyap time for the Bush-Cheney team. As the first primaries near next year, look for the campaign to send out a surrogate team of national, state, and local officials to defend President Bush, under assault by the crowd of Democratic presidential hopefuls. "The green light," says a Bushie, "is about to come on." The plan is to use influential pols and headliners like New York Gov. George Pataki and ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to talk for the campaign while Bush remains above the fray. "You campaign too early," says a Bushie, "and you can overpoliticize the president." Starting in January, "supersurrogates" will join the team. They're mostly former administration big shots like Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, Ari Fleischer, former Pentagon spokesperson Torie Clarke, the veep's daughter and ex-State aide Liz Cheney, and outgoing strategist Tucker Eskew. "We'll be very aggressive," says one. There's a simple goal, says campaign spokesperson Nicolle Devenish: "It allows us to create on a national level, a state level, and a local level an echo chamber for the president's agenda." usnews.com

To: unclewest who wrote (18208)	11/30/2003 6:39:37 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793661

Thanks for the insight into counter ambush skills. On another note, I'd appreciate your POV : Those Iraqis captured today were said to be wearing the Uniform of Fedayeen Saddam. Would/Should they be treated as POWs with the rights/obligations of the Geneva Convention ? One retired military person on Fox news said yes, they should - he specifically said they can not be classified as "enemy combatants and sent to Gitmo".

To: unclewest who wrote (18208)	11/30/2003 6:54:40 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793661

I just watched a CSPAN seminar with General Ray L. Smith, who co-wrote The March Up : Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division. He is a retired Marine General that went along for the ride. The old commo problem never goes away. He says the embedded reporters had much better equipment than the Marines. So much so that he saw several instances where the Div Staff used the pictures on CNN of their units being broadcast by the reporters to plan attacks. He showed a slide of the Commanding General standing at the front with paper maps and a Satellite phone they picked up over there and ordering his staff to move the entire Division in a different direction. "Tell Joe to bring his friends and come and join me."