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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (290391)	7/7/2004 2:51:30 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

On Monday, U.S forces dropped two tons of bombs on a purported militant safe house in Fallujah, killing 15 members of one family, according to witnesses, and turning the building into a 30-foot-deep pit of sand and rubble. "Is this acceptable to the Iraqi government?" asked an angry man at the scene. "Where are human rights?" Yasser Abed, 17, said 15 members of his family, including 12 children, were killed in the air strike. Abed, his father and a brother were out of the house at the time of the attack, he said. Hospital officials said at least 10 people were killed. Previous U.S. airstrikes in Fallujah have killed dozens. And now the worst part: Allawi, the dirty traitor, US backed leader of a terror gang in the nineties, responsible for the bombing of movie theaters in Baghdad, the CIA man in Iraq collaborated in the mass murder commited by USAF terrorists: Allawi issued an unprecedented statement saying his government provided intelligence for the location of the al-Zarqawi safe house so the strike could "terminate those terrorists, whose booby-trapped cars and explosive belts have harvested the souls of innocent Iraqis without discrimination, destroying Iraqi schools, hospitals and police stations." story.news.yahoo.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (290391)	7/7/2004 2:54:02 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Facing legal challenges in Washington and Austin, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has retained lawyers to defend him in both a Congressional ethics probe and an ongoing investigation into Texas' 2002 legislative races. rollcall.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (290391)	7/7/2004 2:56:37 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

One more for the road..... Conservative William F. Buckley cannot help himself. He knows Bush is failing and is compelled to point out the problems. WFBuckley <...We have called up reserves for the first time in decades. We needed to move forces from South Korea to Iraq. And in Iraq, with 140,000 U.S. troops, we can't yet guarantee safe passage from the Baghdad airport to Baghdad. ...Who's the boss over there in Iraq? And how do we digest the fact that there are more insurgents today than a year ago?> nationalreview.com Lessons to Take ... A special strain on Bush is the absorbing of what has gone wrong in Iraq, in order to plot a course of action which is guided by what has gone wrong. The planted axiom, of course, is that we are in Iraq because we needed to be there. ... But whatever public thought Mr. Bush gives to the Iraq venture in the days ahead, he does well to acknowledge the weaknesses in the course of action we took. What Mr. Bacevich ... list(s) "Ten Lessons to Take Away from Iraq." Most of them compel interest and need deliberation by Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, and Rice. (Note: WF Buckley list only 8 of the 10) - "Ideology makes a poor substitute for strategy." - "Wars leave loose ends." - "Allies have choices-and will exercise them." ... - "'Shock and awe' gets you only so far." .... - "The margin of U.S. military supremacy is thinner than advertised." - "The myth of American casualty aversion is just that." - "So too [is it a myth] that there is an American genius for spreading democracy." - "It's hard to win when you don't know whom you're fighting." Who's the boss over there in Iraq? And how do we digest the fact that there are more insurgents today than a year ago?