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To: Rascal who wrote (37739)	2/12/2004 1:42:49 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Links don't work. ??? Which links? The ones in my China post, or Drudge links? I tried the ones in my China post, and two of the three still work for me. The web site english.eastday.com of the first article, seems to be down. So in lieu, Central bank governor: yuan to remain basically stable Governor Zhou Xiaochuan of the People's Bank of China has reiterated that the Chinese currency, or the Renminbi yuan, will remain basically stable at a rational and balanced level. But the country would further ameliorate the formulation mechanism of the RMB's exchange rate, he told an annual work meeting of the central bank on Tuesday. Efforts will also be made this year to tighten and upgrade forex management so as to maintain international balance of payment, relax the restrictions on enterprises and residents using forex, and advance the free convertibility of RMB in capital accounts step by step, according to Zhou. Enditem news.xinhuanet.com Let me know if you have problems with the other links, and I'll post those articles as well. lurqer

To: Rascal who wrote (37739)	2/12/2004 9:17:04 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 89467

LMAO! Now Drudge has retracted the statement he attributed to Clark, that Kerry will implode, now that Clark is endorsing Kerry. Drudge's article has been edited and the reference to Clark has been deleted and instead the endorsement of Clark to Kerry has been added. ROTFLMAO!!!! Also Matt Drudge must have the same drug dealer as Rush I guess as Rush is quoting Drudge and Drudge Rush. ROTFLMAO!!!! drudgereport.com Guess the Bush AWOL news coming out must be htting real hard the right wing neoNAZIs cause they certainly are getting desperate. LMAO! NBC: Clark to endorse Kerry for presidency msnbc.msn.com MSNBC staff and news service reports Updated: 8:11 p.m. ET Feb. 12, 2004 Wesley Clark, who abandoned his bid for the presidency, will endorse Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, NBC News has confirmed. Clark campaign headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., confirmed to NBC News previous reports that the general plans to endorse Kerry. Jamal Simmons, Clark campaign press secretary, also told MSNBC that Clark plans to travel to Wisconsin to meet with Kerry on Friday. “Gen. Clark is looking forward to going to Wisconsin to be with Sen. Kerry” on Friday, Clark spokesman Matt Bennett said earlier. Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the retired Army general would make a formal endorsement at a campaign stop in Wisconsin, which holds its primary Tuesday.

To: Rascal who wrote (37739)	2/13/2004 10:25:31 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Bush has his own way of seeing things seattlepi.nwsource.com By MAUREEN DOWD SYNDICATED COLUMNIST Friday, February 13, 2004 WASHINGTON -- I think President Bush has cleared up everything now. The United States invaded Iraq, which turned out not to have what our pals in Pakistan did have and were giving out willy-nilly to all the bad guys except Iraq, which wouldn't take it. Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our enemy's country: that Iraq had WMD and might sell them on the black market. But they were wrong. Bush officials thought they knew what was going on inside our friend's country: That Pakistanis were trying to sell WMD on the black market. But they couldn't prove it -- until about the time we were invading Iraq. "The grave and gathering threat" turned out to be not Saddam's mushroom cloud but the president's mushrooming deficits. The president is having just as hard a time finding his National Guard records as Iraqi WMD -- and those pay stubs look as murky as those satellite photos of trucks in Iraq. Bush said Wednesday that smaller, developing countries must stop developing nuclear fuel, even as the United States develops a whole new arsenal of smaller nuclear weapons to use against smaller, developing countries that might be thinking about developing nuclear fuel. After he weakened the United Nations for telling the truth about Iraq's nonexistent WMD, Bush now calls on the United Nations to be strong going after WMD. Gen. Pervez Musharraf pardoned the Pakistani hero and nuclear huckster Abdul Qadeer Khan after an embarrassing debacle, praising the scientist's service to his country. Bush pardoned George Tenet after an embarrassing debacle, praising the spook's service to his country. (So much for Bush's preachy odes to responsibility and accountability.) The president warned Wednesday that "the greatest threat before humanity" is the possibility of a sudden WMD attack. Not wanting nuclear technology to go to North Korea, Iran or Libya, the White House demanded tighter controls on black-market sales of WMD, even while praising its good buddy Pakistan, whose scientists were running a black market like a Sam's Club for nukes, peddling to North Korea, Iran and Libya. Bush likes to present the world in black and white, as good and evil, even as he's made a Faustian deal with Musharraf, perhaps hoping that one day -- maybe even on an October day -- the cagey general will decide to cough up Osama. The president is spending $1.5 billion to persuade more Americans to have happy married lives, but plans to keep gay Americans from having happy married lives. Bush said he wouldn't try to overturn abortion rights. But John Ashcroft is intimidating women who had certain abortions by subpoenaing records in six hospitals in New York, Philadelphia and elsewhere. The president set up the intelligence commission (with few intelligence experts) because, he said, the best intelligence is needed to win the war on terror. Yet he doesn't want us to get the panel's crucial report until after he's won the war on Kerry. Bush said he had balked at giving the 9/11 commission the records of his daily briefings from the CIA until faced with a subpoena threat because it might deter the CIA from giving the president "good, honest information." Wasn't it such "good, honest information" that caused him to miss 9/11 and mobilize the greatest war machine in history against Saddam's empty cupboard? Bush says he's working hard to create new jobs in America, while his top economist says it's healthy for jobs to be shipped overseas. The president told Tim Russert that if you order a country to disarm and it doesn't and you don't act, you lose face. But how does a country that goes to war to disarm a country without arms get back its face? Bush said he was troubled that the Vietnam War was "a political war," because civilian politicians didn't let the generals decide how to fight it. But when Gen. Eric Shinseki presciently told Congress in February 2003 that post-war Iraq would need several hundred thousand U.S. soldiers to keep it secure and supplied, he was swatted down by the Bush administration's civilian politicians. Yes, it all makes perfect sense, through the Bush looking glass. _________________ Maureen Dowd is a columnist with The New York Times. Copyright 2004 New York Times News Service. E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com