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To: Road Walker who wrote (402358)	7/27/2008 7:33:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

>> OK, so we should withdraw tomorrow... we won it's over lets get out. We ARE withdrawing right now. But it takes time. The military is a different thing than it was years ago. Units tend to be more self-sufficient, to have more of their own equipment, and the claims of "stop-loss" notwithstanding, the military attempts to respect initial deployment orders. There is still some work to be done. The withdrawal has to be done in a gradual and orderly fashion to insure you don't withdraw so quickly as to create a power vacuum that requires us to come back yet again. I believe Obama was told in no uncertain terms that you're talking about a force of 50,000 for some time yet. It is likely we'll be substantially out in the next couple years so long as violence doesn't crank up again. I don't know if it can be done more quickly than that just from a sheer logistics and transfer of power point of view. Still, this is far better than what you guys have predicted for years. The Left, of course, has talked about us being there for decades.

To: Road Walker who wrote (402358)	7/28/2008 1:11:08 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575981

Wow! I missed this one. Things go from bad to worse in Russia. Since this press release, MTL [with its tail between its legs] has agreed to work Russian authorities to reduce prices. The Russian stock market apparently cratered last week on the news. I owned MTL when it was in the $40s. Since then its been cut in half. Mechel OAO shares plunge following Putin criticism Thursday July 24, 5:26 pm ET Shares in Russian mining company Mechel plunge after Putin calls for investigation MOSCOW (AP) -- Shares in Mechel OAO, a Russian and steel coal company, plunged Thursday after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as criticizing the company for its pricing methods. Mechel's U.S.-listed shares fell $13.77, or 37.6 percent, to close at $22.84 in heavy trading. At a meeting with metal producers in Nizhny Novgorod, Putin accused Mechel of selling raw materials for twice the price at home as it does abroad, the Interfax news agency reported. Interfax quoted Putin as saying he wanted Russia's antitrust regulators to pay "special attention to this problem." Putin also noted that Mechel's biggest shareholder and chief executive, Igor Zyuzin, had been invited to the session, but had fallen ill. He urged him to get better soon. "Otherwise, we will have to send him a doctor to get rid of all these problems," Putin said, according to Interfax. Mechel refused to comment Thursday. biz.yahoo.com