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23236 [lbo-talk] Bush slipping in polls, credibility doubted -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - February 13, 2004 Most Think Truth Was Stretched to Justify Iraq War By Richard Morin and Dana Milbank Washington Post Staff Writers A majority of Americans believe President Bush either lied or deliberately exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify war, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey results, which also show declining support for the war in Iraq and for Bush's leadership in general, indicate the publi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 15:01:30 PST 2004

23237 [lbo-talk] Kerry's stock falls -- rank: 1000

Kerry's gone from about 95 to 75 in the Iowa Electronic Market - must be the "sex scandal": <http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_DConv04.cfm>. Ditto Kerry v. Bush, partly undoing a sharp rally: <http://128.255.244.60/graphs/graph_Pres04_VS.cfm>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 13:47:11 PST 2004

23238 [lbo-talk] the presidential prayer team -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >"You can't make this stuff up." > >Sure you can. Reality is fiction taken seriously. The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly. - Wallace Stevens, "Adagia"

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 13:28:49 PST 2004

23239 [lbo-talk] the presidential prayer team -- rank: 1000

[making the rounds] The Presidential Prayer Team is currently urging us to "Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical principles. With any forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God's Word and His standards will be honored by our government." Any good religious person believes prayer should be balanced by action. So here, in support of the Prayer Team's admirable goal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 12:12:38 PST 2004

23240 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The Iraqi Communist Party has no future -- it not only fails to lead >street demonstrations to the occupation What does have a future? I really don't get your position here - do you admire the "resistance" because they can blow stuff up? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 09:22:56 PST 2004

23241 [lbo-talk] Funny Germans... -- rank: 1000

Long ago I read a piece by Ned Rorem in a Metropolitan Opera program that proclaimed, "There is nothing funny about the laughter of Germans." I guess the Nazi thing makes it ok to make rude generalizations about Germans that one would be too embarrassed to make about anyone else. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 07:12:17 PST 2004

23242 [lbo-talk] will Soros engineer a financial panic? -- rank: 1000

[The markets aren't "thin," as Bartlett claims, but there's only a handful of people in the world who could do something like this, Soros is one of them. He's also famous for "talking his book" - i.e., taking a position then making public comments that move the markets in his favor - so it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's short the dollar in a big way.] <http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/1/132047.shtml> Is Soros Planning 'October Surprise' for Bush? Jon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 06:52:37 PST 2004

23243 [lbo-talk] NYT: Conservatives Shine Spotlight on Kerry's Antiwar Record -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >It looks >like he'll end up having to defend radical positions no matter what he >does. Or, he could go out of his way to prove otherwise - e.g., support a marriage amendment, etc. It'd be a rich irony if the Bush-went-AWOL/Kerry-was-a-hero trope ends up as a backdoor reinforcement of miliatary values, and the elction turns on who's the authentic warrior. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 06:46:45 PST 2004

23244 [lbo-talk] MM to W -- rank: 1000

[when he's good, he's really good] Open Letter from Michael Moore to George "I'm a War President!" Bush February 11, 2004 (67th anniversary of the Great Flint Sit-Down Strike) Dear Mr. Bush, Thank you for providing the illegible Xeroxed partial payroll sheets (or whatever they were) yesterday covering a few of your days in the National Guard. Now we know that, not only didn't you complete your tour of duty, you were actually paid for work you never did. Did you cash those checks? Would ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 13 06:38:42 PST 2004

23245 [lbo-talk] Matt Drudge to the rescue! -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What's next? Osama captured next week? Too soon. Jamie Galbraith has demonstrated statistically that Bush's approval decays by 1-2 percentage points a month (can't remember the exact number) in the absence of stimuli like 9/11 and the Saddam capture. The optimal time for an ObL capture would be around Oct 15. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 13 06:05:37 PST 2004

23246 [lbo-talk] Matt Drudge to the rescue! -- rank: 1000

People used to laugh at Drudge, but what's his record like? He's pretty accurate, isn't he? I haven't followed.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 12 12:37:58 PST 2004

23247 [lbo-talk] Iraqi labor movement -- rank: 1000

---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: Ewa Jasiewicz <freelance at mailworks.org> Via: ListMeister <SolidarityInfoServices at igc.org> [Iraqi Labor Rights Task Force of US Labor Against the War] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 5:18 PM January 27th 2004 Umm Qasr Occupation Lock-Out, IPA Chief Gets a Kicking (again), 25 Answers It's a grey blank day and the Highway of Death is sending us to Umm Qasr, Iraq's most significant trade and passenger port, currently under the operat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 12 10:49:38 PST 2004

23248 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >(It is difficult for me to believe that you, or anyone, could actually >be serious when you write this kind of thing. That is why usually I do >not answer them.) You're so funny, Carrol. I'm going to read you as a performance artist from now on, a parody of an armchair curmudgeon. You should have a cable access show. Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 12 10:56:18 PST 2004

23249 [lbo-talk] Iraqi labor movement -- rank: 1000

[this bounced for length, so I'm breaking it into two] Message-ID: <29163693.1076611371160.JavaMail.root at statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:42:50 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> Reply-To: John Lacny <jlacny at earthlink.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Organizing the docks of Umm Qasr (was: Re: [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog)) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 12 10:49:08 PST 2004

23250 [lbo-talk] Iraq, the left and the 'resistance' (Geras blog) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm asking a question because if Iraqi democrats that Justin speaks >of can't constitute the "forces" in the aforementioned sense >quickly, they are goners, whatever we say or do here. You're over three for the day, but I'll overlook that because I'm in a ruthlessly interrogatory mode. Say, not implausibly, that you're organizing an antiwar rally. Some random citizens ask you, "Well, what do you stand for? What should we do in Iraq?" If you a ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 12 09:47:32 PST 2004