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To: John Sladek who wrote (1940)	2/12/2004 9:31:12 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

>>> It was Perle who invited Rand Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec to give a24 -slide presentation to the Defense Policy Board in July2002 ; the last slide titled “Grand strategy for the Middle East” states: “Iraq is the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia the strategic pivot, Egypt the Prize”.<<< arabnews.com. Do folks think Edypt knows this? I should I keep this quiet--lol? I just can't wait until virtually all of the American people know what the Bush Administration is up to--and, hopefully, this knowledge will come before the next election.

To: John Sladek who wrote (1940)	2/12/2004 9:38:25 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

Indeed, there is the fear that Bush dishes out; and then there is the fear that the contents of the article you wrote are correct, although the end of the article was a bit hopeful.

To: John Sladek who wrote (1940)	2/12/2004 2:00:54 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 173976

very interesting article. I always thought the "Arab news" was a right wing medium targeted at the US ex-pat military crowd stationed in the middle east. Lots of pro war pieces in Arab news at the beginning of the invasion.

To: John Sladek who wrote (1940)	2/12/2004 7:39:55 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 173976

From reading the Arab News link you referenced, I found the below regarding women in Saudi Arabia: arabnews.com. From my reading about the prewar conditions in Iraq, I don't think--though I'm not sure--that this "hanging" sort of thing happened in Iraq during Saddam's regime. As I understand it, prewar conditions saw women representing about 60 percent of those who attended universities, and I recall a news report about about a vibrant Iraqi woman who was running her own business before the invasion. So election elections will be held in Iraq and the Shiite leader Sistani will likely become the new Iraqi leader. He prefers a religious-styled government, where women are similarly treated, a government similar to Iran's. What will this do to the Iraqi women who once enjoyed greater freedom and opportunity? Not just that Bush's war has invited instability into the Middle East region as a whole, it appears as though the results are going to see a step backward for women, should the elections be held and Sistani become the victor.