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To: tejek who wrote (186063)	4/4/2004 8:20:05 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577883

Ted, re: Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.............. It's going to continue to get worse. Remember how DR and his neocon ilk said we would be welcomed as liberating heros? John

To: tejek who wrote (186063)	4/4/2004 9:33:36 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

Bush Loyalists Pack Iraq Press Office 57 minutes ago Add White House - AP to My Yahoo! By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Inside the marble-floored palace hall that serves as the press office of the U.S.-led coalition, Republican Party operatives lead a team of Americans who promote mostly good news about Iraq (news - web sites). AP Photo Dan Senor, a former press secretary for Spencer Abraham (news - web sites), the Michigan Republican who's now Energy Secretary, heads the office that includes a large number of former Bush campaign workers, political appointees and ex-Capitol Hill staffers. More than one-third of the U.S. civilian workers in the press office have GOP ties, running an enterprise that critics see as an outpost of Bush's re-election effort with Iraq a top concern. Senor and others inside the coalition say they follow strict guidelines that steer clear of politics. One of the main goals of the Office of Strategic Communications — known as stratcom — is to ensure Americans see the positive side of the Bush administration's invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq, where 600 U.S. soldiers have died and a deadly insurgency thrives. "Beautification Plan for Baghdad Ready to Begin," one press release in late March said in its headline. Another statement last month cautioned, story.news.yahoo.com