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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (567102)	4/21/2004 2:26:15 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Suddenly, Kerry Can't Speak French Wow.....this is really relevent! Thanks for digging it up! I don't think I could have survived without knowing this POS!

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (567102)	4/21/2004 2:28:20 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 769670

Now this is relevent. Do you think you can tell the difference in the future, o wise one?! Oh btw..........thanks, Mr. Bush! ********************************************************* Basra Police Station Bombings Kill 40 in Iraq Wed Apr 21, 2004 01:59 AM ET (Page 1 of 3) By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed, many of them children, in co-ordinated car bombs that struck three police stations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Wednesday, a Reuters correspondent said. Fresh clashes erupted in the flashpoint city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, residents said, just hours after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld voiced pessimism over peace talks there, making clear U.S. Marines would resume an offensive if Sunni Muslim guerrillas did not abide by a fledgling deal. The Reuters correspondent said he had counted 40 bodies at one Basra hospital. Among the dead were many children who had been going to kindergarten in a minibus that was caught in one blast. Many other civilians and police were killed or wounded. "There were three separate explosions at police stations at about 7.15 a.m. (11:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday)," said a British military spokesman, Squadron Leader John Arnold. "They were vehicle-based improvised explosive devices." He said heavy casualties were feared, but he had no exact figures, partly because emergency vehicles and British troops who control Basra could not reach two of the police stations. "They are being stoned," Arnold said, adding that no casualties among British forces had been reported. Arnold said it was too early to say if the attacks were suicide bombings. The morning rush hour explosions sowed panic across Basra, which had been relatively peaceful during this month's surge of violence in other parts of central and southern Iraq. Several charred vehicles, including a minibus, lay in the street at the scene of one blast. In Falluja, residents said Marines and guerrillas traded mortar, machinegun and rocket-propelled grenade fire in the clashes that broke out at around 6 a.m. (10 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and were still raging in the city's Golan district three hours later. "The current state of affairs in Falluja will not continue indefinitely. Thugs and assassins and former Saddam henchmen will not be allowed to carve out portions of that city and to oppose peace and freedom," Rumsfeld told a Pentagon briefing. Continued ... reuters.com