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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (2256)	2/4/1998 1:53:00 PM
From: vegetarian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

Pancho, it could be: -the market does not care about Yeltsin's comments -the market thinks Clinton is not as strong as Bush and would not attack Iraq -Saddam will wimp out when push comes to shove and/or Saddam does not beleive Clinton will attack; he is just blowing hot air to acquire support Wonder what it is, but it may just be that the market thinks that Clinton will not do anything to harm the prosperity of the wall street so that people will ignore the other problems around him thinking that he is doing well. Whatever it is, the market seems to be rallying like hell.

To: Pancho Villa who wrote (2256)	2/4/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: Ploni	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18691

Re: Sodamn Insane I can almost say that I have a personal grudge against the man, but at the same time, I'd like to hear what the U.S. motivation is before approving any big operation against him. I know last time Bush said it was because of the poor Kurds, or the poor Kuwaitis, or some other poor beleaguered people -- and everyone knew it was a lie and that we attacked either because we were worried about the security of our oil supply, or because Bush was a personal friend of the Kuwaiti rulers. We extracted all sorts of promises from Kuwait, such as the one that they would change their constitution to allow women the right to vote -- and they haven't followed through on any of those promises, despite the fact that we won their country back for them. Meanwhile, the Saudis limited us to what we could do, and didn't allow us to topple Sodamn Insane and put in a democratic government. Saudi was also threatened by him, but even though we came through for them, they have since shown their friendship for the U.S. by allowing terrorists to blow up U.S. servicemen two or three times, without trying to prevent it or allowing our government to investigate after the fact. Thus, I would be reluctant to invest any tax dollars in fighting Iraq, and I definitely wouldn't want to send any of our men or women to risk their lives, because just as in Korea and Vietnam, they are going to be hamstrung and not allowed to accomplish any lasting objective. Perhaps this can be handled better privately. I say we get one of those cruise missiles with a video camera in the nosecone and send it after Sodamn. Afterwards we print up ten million copies of the video, showing the missile flying low over the Iraqi terrain, dodging hills and trees, entering the palace grounds, flying through windows, up and down stairs, around corners, and finally showing Sodamn cowering in a corner, with a look of terror on his face, just before the warhead detonates. We sell those videos for about $20 each, at supermarket checkout lines. -- Problem solved, without any U.S. government involvement. Maybe this would be a good project for Babb Enterprises :-)