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To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (131024)	5/2/2004 7:20:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

My own conclusions is that you're simply making things up and presenting them as fact. Why ask why? Hey, it's the Internet! The perfect place for the full and free exercise of Male Answer Syndrome. Time for a recap: >>Have you ever wondered why: Men who have never been west of Kentucky can tell you about the mentality of the Japanese? Men who can't pay their credit-card bills have a plan for dealing with the national debt? Men who aren't on speaking terms with their families know how to achieve peace in the Middle East? Men who flunked high-school physics can explain what went wrong at NASA? Men who haven't had a date in six months know what women really want? Try an experiment: Ask my friend Jeff, who spends his weekends fixing up his Harley and watching female mud wrestling, how he thinks political autonomy will affect the economies of the Baltic states. His brow will furrow; he will purse his lips thoughtfully. "It's interesting that you mention that...," he will begin, and then he will come up with something-probably nothing remotely feasible, but something. This behavior-the chronic answering of questions regardless of actual knowledge is known as Male Answer Syndrom. The compulsion to answer varies from person to person, but few men are happy saying, "I don't know." They prefer, "That's not what's important here." They try not to get bogged down by petty considerations, such as, "Do I know anything about this subject?" or "Is what I have to say interesting?" They take a broad view of questions, treating them less as requests for specific pieces of information than as invitations to expand on some theories, air a few prejudices, and tell a couple of jokes. Some men seem to regard life as a talk show on which they are the star guest. If you ask, "What is the capital of Peru?" they hear, "So tell us a bit about your early years, Bob." Sometimes this expansiveness is appealing. If you ask a woman, "Why did Madonna go on the David Letterman Show?" she will simply shrug helplessly, acknowledging that some things are simply unknowable. A man, on the other hand, will come up with a few theories (she has the same agent? overdose of Prozac). Men have the courage and inventiveness to try to explain the inexplicable. But Male Answer Syndrome (MAS) is by no means harmless, as my friend Pauline discovered at the age of 8. She had found that eating ice cream made her teeth hurt and asked her father whether Eskimos had the same problem. "No," he said. "They have rubber teeth." Pauline repeated this information in a geography lesson and found herself the laughing stock of the class. That was how she learned that a man, even if he is your own father, would rather make up an answer than admit to his ignorance. << winn.com

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (131024)	5/2/2004 8:09:51 PM
From: h0db	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

Top US Brass Reject Fallujah Brigade Leadership msnbc.msn.com BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least nine U.S. service members were killed in Iraq on Sunday, the military said, signaling the possibility that U.S. casualties in Iraq may continue at the same grisly pace as in April, until now the bloodiest month since the conflict began 13 months ago. News of the attacks comes after the top U.S. military commander said that reports that Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein’s elite Republican Guard, would take charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Fallujah, have been “very, very inaccurate.” U.S.: Ex-Saddam general to be replaced Meanwhile, Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that Saleh, a former general in the Republican Guard, is unlikely to take charge in Fallujah and is still being vetted to lead a possible Iraqi peacekeeping force. “There’s another general they’re looking at,” Gen. Richard B. Myers told ABC’s This Week. “My guess is, it will not be General Saleh. ... He will not be their leader ... He may have a role to play, but that vetting has yet to take place,” said Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Myers’ appearance on three different Sunday morning political talk shows seemed calculated to counter reporting out of Iraq suggesting the U.S. military had suffered a virtual defeat in Fallujah and had turned to Saddam’s former military chiefs to salvage the situation. “No, it’s not a reversal,” Myers said on ABC of his remarks that failed to confirm Saleh as military chief in Fallujah. “I think the — again, as I said, the reporting on this has been very, very bad and way ahead of the facts.” Myers, who said Marines have not withdrawn from Fallujah, did not respond to a question on Fox News Sunday on whether Saleh, a former general who once served in Saddam’s elite Republican Guard, had been involved with the brutal suppression of Iraq’s Kurdish minority, but he reiterated that Saleh was not in command of the forces inside Fallujah. “The reporting to date has been ... very, very inaccurate,” Myers told Fox News. “We’ve gotten a lot of help from tribal sheiks and other folks.” Meanwhile, Saleh set up the possibility of fresh confrontations with U.S. forces when he denied the presence of foreign fighters in Fallujah. “There are no foreign fighters in Fallujah, and the local tribal leaders have told me the same,” Saleh told Reuters in an interview. U.S. Marines turned to Saleh when he offered to help restore order to Fallujah, after a month-long siege. But his U.S. backers say foreign Islamic guerrillas are stoking the insurgency by up to 2,000 fighters in the city, combatants once among the most loyal to Saddam. ********************************************************** Yep, I was just making it up. Quick, immerse yourself in Fox news and drown out any doubts you have in the brilliant US strategery.