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To: Merritt who wrote (40172)	12/20/1998 6:00:00 PM
From: accountclosed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

no one seems to question the timing of the cessation of hostilities with Iraq I think it is being questioned all over si. Check the Big Kahuna thread, and the various Clinton threads.

To: Merritt who wrote (40172)	12/20/1998 6:48:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Merritt, re: platinum, Rolex is now making a platinum Oyster, it looks much like the "run-of-the-mill" brushed steel Oyster but platinum is a little lighter color and less blue-grey, more silver-gold. It is for people who don't want to be ostentatious. If you know what it is, you can spot it instantly. If you don't know, well, you're not in the know. I wonder if it is less likely than gold to attract the attention of muggers. I assume so. Re: timing of the bombing. There is an old saying, once is an accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. But, in this case, the timing of the begining and end are just too coincident to be a coincidence. Announcing the end of the bombing an hour after completion of the vote? Come on.

To: Merritt who wrote (40172)	12/21/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Merritt, The problem with commodity traders is that they tend to extrapolate the past without looking into potential differences in the future. Which is why they all use TA. <G> I don't get the cessation bit at all. Saddam goes on tv telling his people he won and we stop bombing? It doesn't seem to me that any lesson has been learned, at least not overtly. Part of that has to do with the fact that we are trying to bomb people without offending them, which offends me. But, I think on the timing, that Clinton would have been sly enough to continue if it was a ploy on the impeachement. I would have used Saddam's statements and my continued bombing to "prove" that the hearings hadn't made me wag the dog in the first place. MB