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almarst2002 - 10:50pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11932 of 11966)

In the latest sign of a troubled American democracy, a large majority of U.S. citizens now say they wouldn’t mind if no weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq, though it was George W. Bush’s chief rationale for war. Americans also don’t seem to mind that Bush appears to have deceived them for months when he claimed he hadn’t made up his mind about invading Iraq.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/040803a.html

almarst2002 - 10:52pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11933 of 11966)

On the roads of ruin - http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,962905,00.html

bbbuck - 10:54pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11934 of 11966)

You can train a monkey to link,

but you can't make him think.

almarst2002 - 10:59pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11935 of 11966)

Afghanistan asks West for $15bn - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/international/story/0,6903,963109,00.html

almarst2002 - 11:02pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11936 of 11966)

There are still some untrained monkeys... right here.

almarst2002 - 11:04pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11937 of 11966)

Red Cross denied access to PoWs http://www.guardian.co.uk/Observer/iraq/story/0,12239,963176,00.html

Up to 3,000 Iraqis - some of them civilians - believed to be gagged, bound, hooded and beaten at US camps close to Baghdad airport.

lchic - 11:10pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11938 of 11966)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Critchfield hailed the coup that brought the Baathists to power as "a great victory." Yet the reality is that the coup further destabilized an Iraq that had survived on the edge .... .

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/051503a.html

An interesting question here is

was Critchfield 'elected' by the American people to run foreign policy ?

was there discussion in the US Parliament regarding it - foreign policy ?

lchic - 11:12pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11939 of 11966)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq : Gagged and hooded - 3,000 prisoners held in searing heat

almarst2002 - 11:16pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11940 of 11966)

Afghanistan Drug Production Equals International Aid - In 2002 Afghanistan has become the world-s largest producer of drugs - http://english.pravda.ru/world/20/93/375/10059_narcotics.html

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