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To: Sully- who wrote (43695)	5/11/2004 6:09:59 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

News you were supposed to miss Powerline blog In response to the question whatever happened to al-Sadr, Reader Stephen Foley tells us that "if you look hard enough, you can still find stories about the 'popular Shiite uprising.'" He directs us to this story about a march by hundreds in Najaf on Tuesday calling on rebel Shi'ite cleric to pull his militia out of the Iraqi holy city. <font size=4>Mr. Foley suggests that at his next press conference President Bush should ask the assembled journalists to apologize for grossly exaggerating the extent of the problems with al-Sadr.<font size=3> Mr. Foley also picked up an interesting tidbit buried in this AP story about the prison situation. <font size=4>According to the report, the Red Cross wanted to keep its report about prisoner abuse confidential because it saw that U.S. officials were making progress in responding to their complaints.<font size=3> As Mr. Foley notes, "From the dramatic headlines I have seen about prison abuse scandal, I would never have thought that the US military actually responded to Red Cross findings and made progress in addressing these concerns." Me neither.

To: Sully- who wrote (43695)	5/11/2004 7:29:40 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Some more on Martin from the Winnipeg Sun. <<Martin said he's lobbying the international community to set up an informal organization comprised of a maximum of 20 heads of state to tackle world issues such as terrorism. Martin said he got the nod from U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit to Washington D.C. last month, and will take his idea to the European Union and Latin America next. >> Perhaps that's the beginning of the "United Democracies."