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To: TobagoJack who wrote (50250)	5/20/2004 8:21:24 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

OK, good enough. The incredible failure to stomp was Greenspan's refusal to raise margin rates from 50% back in 1999 or so. That would have damaged no one except foolish speculators and would have restored some sense of reality to finanacial markets. Greenspan had the perfect tool and the correct assessment ("irrational exuberance"). His failure to act borders on the criminal.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50250)	5/21/2004 12:14:48 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>fuzzy thinking gets more entertaining as time go by.<< Play it again, CB, for the old time sake ?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50250)	5/21/2004 4:01:51 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Despair settles in as a fierce struggle for the war spoils starts. <<Iraqis and G.I.'s Raid the Offices of an Ex-Favorite>> nytimes.com add that to the news of the Government Council blasted to death and you see that was happeining right now in Iraq is a internal struggle to see who is going to have the reins of the power. All the killings around are just a political campaign Iraq style. <<But the relationship (between Chalabi and the US) has markedly deteriorated in recent weeks as Mr. Chalabi criticized Americans for not turning over enough power to the new Iraqi government when sovereignty is formally restored on June 30.>> The guy cut a deal with the US to denigrate Saddam and get power afterwards. He also clashed with American officials over the decision to resurrect members of Mr. Hussein's Baath Party in positions of power. <<Three days ago, Pentagon officials said they were ending the $335,000 monthly payments they had been making to support Mr. Chalabi's intelligence-gathering organization, which has been sharply criticized for having grossly exaggerating the threat posed by Mr. Hussein.>> Now that Saddam is gone, the guy is spendable. Oh!!!! Count on anohter bunch torpedoing the post 30 June regime.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50250)	5/21/2004 4:13:24 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Iraqi script post June 30th: The US is getting any former Iraqis who ran the country before to put them in power and get out of the country. If Saddam is clever enough and get to know what's going on he is cutting a deal with the US right now. He would say who can run the country in a post June 30th Iraq, he is turned to the Iraqi new regime for facing justice. Is trialed condemned, send to prison, through the front door, and go out -through the back door- to a waiting limousine to one of his refurbished palaces, there his first meal would be a PIZZA!! and no one would ever hear about him. For all practical purposes, Saddam is rotting in Jail. I told you, Jay, is pizza or there's no deal. Oil flowing, they will buy social peace with money and blast some guys who get on the way.