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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: yard_man who wrote (42256)	1/5/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

tip, you are too naive. Don't believe that dribble. Spend your time buying quality US equities while they are still on sale.. Also, I want prices much higher before I buy poots -g- ps I bet it's true.

To: yard_man who wrote (42256)	1/5/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Tip, However, you have to admit that Saddam makes it easy to bomb him without feeling very guilty. <G> MB

To: yard_man who wrote (42256)	1/5/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Merritt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Tip: >>What [chief U.N. weapons inspector] Richard Butler did last week with the inspections was a set-up.... This was designed to generate a conflict that would justify a bombing.... the two considerations on the horizon were Ramadan and impeachment. You have no choice but to interpret this as 'Wag the Dog.' You have no choice. - Scott Ritter [formerly a U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq] << No hmmm bout it, IMHO. Especially when you consider that Ramadan wasn't a consideration (the joint Syrian/Egyptian attack on Israel in 1973 was launched during Ramadan, no cessation of hostilities occurred during Ramadan in the Iraq/Iran conflict of the early 1980s, and there's reportedly no Koranic stricture attached to waging war during Ramadan). That leaves only one consideration...impeachment.

To: yard_man who wrote (42256)	1/5/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: HB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Ritter is certainly P.O'd at being dumped as inspector (probably essentially because he was too confrontational, and the admin wanted a mellower approach). Ritter is a shoot from the hip kind of guy.... Doesn't mean he's not right, but he probably has a rock on his shoulder against his replacement, Butler... Clinton was already publicly committed to action if the inspectors reported Iraq not letting them do their job again...