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To: Luce Wildebeest who wrote (45415)	12/30/2003 2:02:09 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Calvin, Thanks for the info. There is a taint on a lot of the organizations that have been allowed to participate in the charity efforts in Iraq. The DoD and the CPA essentially told NGOs that they'd have to conform to U.S. standards and avoid any direct criticisms of the Bush schemers in order to be allowed to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq. I sensed from the JumpStart webpages that they were assiduously avoiding any sort of judgements of the occupation forces which are currently terrorizing the Iraqi citizenry, and wearing them down with intentionally imposed shortages of basic necessities like motor fuel, electricity, potable water and sewerage services. All of these systems were restored by the Baathists within about 3 months of the end of hostilities in 1991. Today, the record of the CPA is a miserable failure (and it appears to me to be a deliberate failure) to restore basic services in order to break the will of the Iraqi people to resist the illegal occupation of their country and the theft of their resources.