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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22434)	2/24/2005 1:24:57 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81900

Gus > do you think gringos are deaf, dumb and blind? Isn't that self evident? > Iran Looks East. A $70 billion gas deal has brought Tehran and Beijing closer together. And that could spell trouble for the U.S. Likewise news.dcealumni.com >>Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today that his government will continue to support Iran’s nuclear programs and he does not believe Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Moscow assisted Iran in building its nuclear reactor much to the dismay of the United States. Putin reemphasized Russia’s support for Iran’s nuclear programs after meeting with Iranian officials today in Moscow The U.S. has been urging Russia to pull out of the contract on helping to build an $800 million nuclear reactor in Iran’s city of Bushehr saying Iran, the Middle East’s second-biggest oil producer, doesn’t need nuclear power and the facility is part of plans to produce nuclear weapons.<<

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22434)	2/24/2005 4:48:47 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81900

Gus > do you think gringos are deaf, dumb and blind? (2) It seems some some, very few, are, at least, beginning to wake up to the reality of the predicament. latimes.com >>Whether this reality has yet to fully sink in with the majority of the American people is unclear. No doubt President Bush hopes the citizenry will continue to snooze. Better to talk about Social Security reform and banning gay marriage than to call attention to the unhappy fact that we are spending several billion dollars per month and losing, on average, two soldiers per day — not to prevail but simply to prolong the stalemate. Moreover, if the administration gets its way, we can expect that expenditure of blood and treasure to continue for many months, until there emerges an Iraqi government able to fend for itself or Iraq descends into chaos. Pending the final judgment of President Bush's war, this much we can say for sure: Two years after the dash on Baghdad seemingly affirmed the invincibility of the U.S. armed forces, the actual limits of American power now lay exposed for all to see. Our adversaries, real and potential, are no doubt busy contemplating the implications of those limits. So too must we. Our effort to do so should begin with the admission that the idea, promoted during the heady spring of 2003, that through the aggressive use of military power the United States might transform the Islamic world and cement U.S. global preeminence was a dangerous delusion. It remains a delusion today.<< And all for Israel.