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To: CYBERKEN who wrote (741950)	6/4/2006 12:33:22 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

unfortunate for you that you don't have an audience like Rich..only the lonely on these blogs.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (741950)	6/4/2006 3:39:17 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Gunmen killed 21 people — many of them high school students — after dragging them off buses northeast of Baghdad, officials said. Four Sunni Arabs were spared and the dead were all Shiites or Kurds. Serwan Shokir, the mayor Qara Tappah, said the shooting occurred in the early morning after three mini buses left his town headed for Baqouba — located 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. One person was wounded. He said the gunmen dragged 26 people from the buses, separated four Sunni Arabs from the group, and shot the rest. .......................................................... Sectarian war getting worse by the day in Iraq.....it's worse than VietNam where we eventually "cut and run" as the blinded rightwingers would have you believe.Now it's time to get out of Iraq and admit to the world we were wrong.Let the Iraqis figure out their future.......look at VietNam today,so there's a glimmer of hope.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (741950)	6/5/2006 10:08:49 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Rumsfeld eyes boosting military ties with Vietnam By Paul Eckert, Asia Correspondent Mon Jun 5, 3:03 AM ET news.yahoo.com U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and his Vietnamese counterpart agreed on Monday to boost military exchanges between the former battlefield enemies, Pentagon officials said. Vietnam is one of several Asian states that the Pentagon has built close ties with to conduct its war on terrorism and to hedge against a rising China, which Washington says is too secretive about its military spending and intentions. "It was cordial and both sides agreed we want to expand these contacts," a senior Pentagon official said after Rumsfeld's hour-long meeting with Defense Minister Pham Van Tra. The two sides agreed to share medical training under a Pentagon-funded program and have "more visits at all levels," the official told reporters traveling with Rumsfeld on the second leg of a Southeast Asian visit. U.S. military ties with Hanoi, 31 years after the end of the Vietnam war and 11 years after the normalization of diplomatic ties, have warmed gradually with ship visits. Rumsfeld, the second Pentagon chief to visit communist-run Vietnam since the fall of U.S. ally South Vietnam in 1975, was due to meet Prime Minister Phan Van Khai later on Monday. Rumsfeld, who also headed the Defense Department in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, last visited Hanoi in 1995 as a businessman. "I hasten to congratulate you and the people of Vietnam for the amazing economic achievements that have occurred just in the last 11 years," Rumsfeld told Tra. The military talks were held less than a week after the two countries signed a new trade pact that paves the way for Vietnam to join the World Trade Organization by year-end. MISSING IN ACTION RECOVERY A U.S. Navy ship would visit Vietnam this summer, the fourth in four years, Rumsfeld said. But he told reporters in Singapore on Sunday that "we have no plans for access to military facilities in Vietnam" and his aides stressed that ties would evolve gradually. For Hanoi, this means avoiding provoking giant neighbor China. U.S. officials have said Vietnam, which fought a brief war with China in 1979, shares Washington's desire to have good ties with Beijing and a wariness about rapid Chinese military growth. Exchanges under the Pentagon's International Military Education and Training (IMET) program would begin with English-language training for Vietnamese officers in San Antonio, Texas, the official said. Further IMET exchanges "will need some time to cook and there are some restraints on our side," said the official, referring to congressional oversight that raises concerns about U.S. military partners' human rights behavior. Rumsfeld and Tra discussed cooperation on recovering the remains of the 1,805 U.S. soldiers missing in action in Southeast Asia since the war, which killed more than 58,000 Americans and three million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. The Pentagon official said Washington could offer technical help for Hanoi in recovering the remains of its 300,000 missing soldiers. He added that although Vietnam was very helpful, Washington wanted more assistance searching Vietnamese archives and finding data on missing soldiers in Laos and Cambodia. Hanoi will host President Bush in November at the annual summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. Copyright © 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Copyright © 2006 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.