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To: lurqer who wrote (34709)	1/10/2004 10:54:23 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY PAUL ONEILL SAYS INVASION OF IRAQ WAS PLANNED IN THE FIRST DAYS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LONG BEFORE 9/11, IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SUNDAY ON "60 MINUTES" drudgereport.com

To: lurqer who wrote (34709)	1/11/2004 8:06:19 AM
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To: lurqer who wrote (34709)	1/11/2004 9:41:56 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

Iraq's Top Shi'ite Cleric Sticks to Election Demand Sun January 11, 2004 09:07 AM ET (Page 1 of 2) By Khaled Farhan NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's most revered Shi'ite leader insisted Sunday that democratic elections must he held within months, denting U.S. hopes of winning his crucial backing for Washington's roadmap for handing back sovereignty to Iraqis. Officials from the U.S.-appointed Governing Council went to the Shi'ite Muslim city of Najaf Sunday to meet Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and try to persuade him to back the U.S. plan. Under the plan, regional caucuses will select a transitional Iraqi assembly by the end of May, and the assembly will select an interim government that will take over sovereignty by the end of June. Full elections and a constitution will follow in 2005. Sistani wants the transitional assembly to be directly elected, and is not backing down from his stance. If he does not back the U.S. roadmap, many of Iraq's majority Shi'ites may well refuse to accept the process. "The ideal mechanism for this is elections which a number of experts confirm can be held within coming months with an acceptable degree of credibility and transparency," Sistani's office quoted him as telling the Governing Council delegation. "If the transitional assembly is formed by a mechanism that doesn't have the necessary legitimacy then it wouldn't be possible for the government to perform a useful function...New problems will arise as a result of this that will only worsen the tensions in the political and security situation." continues... reuters.com

To: lurqer who wrote (34709)	1/11/2004 10:31:46 AM
From: nz_q	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

<<<<I-R-O-N-I-C>>>> wmd's found, not in IRAQ!!!! but Anniston, Ala. The cache of chemical weapons includes 873,020 pounds of sarin, 1,657,480 pounds of VX nerve agent and 1,976,760 pounds of mustard agent - enough to kill or incapacitate millions. By CHUCK MURPHY, Times Staff Writer © St. Petersburg Times published March 16, 2003 sptimes.com

To: lurqer who wrote (34709)	1/11/2004 5:07:38 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

W.'S WIDE WEB MAY ZAP DEAN E-MACHINE nypost.com By DEBORAH ORIN January 11, 2004 -- DES MOINES, Iowa - The buzz says Democratic front-runner Howard Dean is king of the Internet - but in some ways, President Bush has trumped Dean at his own game. Dean's Web site yesterday boasted of 564,000 Internet supporters, but the Bush-Cheney campaign says its e-mail list is 6 million - a 10-1 lead. That includes 400,000 who have signed up for an active role as "team leaders." An ABC News poll last month raised eyebrows by showing that Bush wallops Dean among Internet users as well as the tech-averse - the president tops Dean by 18 points in either case. Deanforamerica.com is way ahead in Internet fund-raising - campaign manager Joe Trippi says about $20 million of Dean's $41 million cash haul came over the Web, where Bush raised just $3.1 million. But Bush supporters say they're now using the site georgewbush.com to reach more small donors - the average Bush Web donation is a modest $140. Indeed, after all the gee-whiz wonder about Dean's pioneering use of the Internet, it could be that he has hit a ceiling. Trippi predicted exponential growth in 'Net supporters to 900,000 by the end of 2003 - but Dean is still short of 600,000. Team Dean boasts of using the Internet for 21st-century organizing, but as of yesterday a mere 758 Iowans had used the deanforamerica.com site to pledge to go to the Iowa caucuses. For months, Dean quickly topped or doubled every cash goal he set on the Web - but not last week. He set a $700,000 goal for Friday midnight and claimed he barely met it with $701,000 by then. The deadline actually was put off two days and the target raised to $800,000. Democrat Wesley Clark, meanwhile, raised $4 million on the Internet. Dean remains way ahead of Bush on Web traffic according to Hitwise, a service that monitors competitive Web use - but not when the White House site, Whitehouse.gov, is counted. Last week Hitwise found the White House site spiked with interest in Bush's immigration reforms. Usually, Dean's main sites combined have nearly as much Web traffic as Bush's campaign site plus Whitehouse.gov - but from Jan. 3-7, Whitehouse.gov got 66 percent of 2004 political Web traffic, Dean's main site had 8 percent and Bush 2 percent, Hitwise found.