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To: michael97123 who wrote (185876)	4/28/2006 3:29:43 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

German barons thought they had mad adolph under control too and look what happened. In a sense the perverse nationalist and racist appeal of the pres makes him more popular in iran than the mullahs who have a legacy of offending the iranian people. Well stated...

To: michael97123 who wrote (185876)	4/28/2006 5:46:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

There was a photo of El Presidente of Iran today that I saw, with him giving his normal toothy grin and a V sign with his fingers. He just doesn't look like an Adolf equivalent. Adolf was hardened by his experiences with his beloved mother's death, father, Jewish doctor who didn't save his mother, then WWI with all the horror he experienced. Plus his personality. What's his name doesn't look anything like that. Nor is the average Iranian all that keen really, I think. They are alike like Hawk and Geode are alike. We shouldn't be stampeded into thinking we have got another Adolf just because of a few postures by Iran's boss and his cohort. Let's see them invade a neighbouring country, then we'll have a better parallel. All talk, no action! For now. Mqurice

To: michael97123 who wrote (185876)	4/29/2006 1:49:13 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bad news continues to pile up around Don Rumsfeld like garbage at a land fill. The latest blast came from an unlikely source, The Army Times, which conducted a poll showing that 64% of enlisted men think Rumsfeld should tender his resignation immediately. It would be impossible to find a more conservative publication than the Army Times or a more compelling reason for stepping down. Still, the recalcitrant Rumsfeld shows no sign of caving in or loosening his withered grip on the levers of power. Earlier in the week, an equally devastating article appeared in the New York Times “Criticism of Rumsfeld Widens to Young Officers” echoing that younger officers are just as sick of the glib Rummy as their elders. One anonymous officer noted, “We have not lost a single tactical engagement on the ground in Iraq….The mistakes have all been at the strategic and political levels." Confidence in the Secretary is deflating more rapidly than the air leaving a punctured tire. Most of the grumbling about Rumsfeld seems to center on his two salient attributes; arrogance and ineptitude, the twin-axels of predictable failure. There isn’t one part of the 3 year occupation he hasn’t mishandled, mismanaged or completely bungled. His tenure at the War Dept represents the greatest collapse of leadership in the history of the republic. informationclearinghouse.info