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25261 four out of five Americans agree: war is going well -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - March 28, 2003 Post-ABC News Poll Public Backs Senate Plan to Slash Tax Cut Bush Support Strong, but U.N. Role in Postwar Iraq Wanted By Richard Morin Washington Post Staff Writer Most Americans want to slash President George W. Bush's proposed tax cut as the country grows increasingly resigned to a longer, costlier and much bloodier war in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 65 percent of the public favors the Senate-passed plan to red ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 08:03:43 PST 2003

25262 Taibbi's latest -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >I'd had a sneaking suspicion as I read these stories that this >whole duct-tape thing was a media end run Don't forget this gem, from the Fed's most recent beige book summary of anecdotal reports on the U.S. economy <http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/beigebook/2003/20030305/FullReport.htm>: >Consumer Spending and Tourism >Overall consumer spending remained weak during January and February. >Retail sales were generally flat throughout much of the country i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:47:22 PST 2003

25263 tough Americans -- rank: 1000

<http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030327-071957-6347r> Analysis: U.S. public war opinions stable By Steve Sailer UPI National Correspondent Part of a continuing series on public opinion about the Iraq war. LOS ANGELES, March 27 (UPI) -- Will the press' plummeting mood affect the American public's will to fight? There isn't much survey evidence of that yet, and experts on the history of public opinion don't expect major changes. According to the latest USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll, suppor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:41:25 PST 2003

25264 Q&A -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Player Search #25 Jason Giambi New York Yankees | Roster, AVG .314, >HR 41, RBI 122. Age: 32 Height: 6-3 Weight: 235 lbs. Bats: Left > >No wonder the left is in such sorry shape. Oh, sports. I thought it was something important, like pop culture. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:37:44 PST 2003

25265 IRAQWAR.RU 3/27 -- rank: 1000

topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au wrote: >To my mind, not reporting casualties is a very reckless gamble on a >quick sharp >war that has already not happened, and based on fairy tale notions about post >war Iraq. ...which would be perfectly consistent with the way the Bush regime has run the war so far, with all their magical expecations of a "cakewalk," as well as everything else they do, wrapped in secrecy, lies, and happy talk. They said they had the Security Council vote loc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:36:15 PST 2003

25266 IRAQWAR.RU 3/27 -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >These are the casualties from GW1 btw: > > >382 Killed in action >467 wounded >37 Killed in action but in non-battle capacity >1 missing in action > >1947 Killed outside battle theatre (jeep accidents, etc.) Are there good stats on how many GW1 veterans have died since? (suicide, etc.) Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:33:56 PST 2003

25267 Q&A -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Jason Giambi Uh, who? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 28 07:22:58 PST 2003

25268 breaking - perle resigns -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Looking at the military talking heads on the news the last couple of >days, I've gotten the impression that the Pentagon has shored up its >blame defenses in the event Iraq becomes more catastrophic. I've >also gotten the impression that the Pentagon's locked-and-loaded >fingers of blame are pointed in the direction of Donald Rumsfeld's >office. I wonder if Rumsfeld's taken preemptive action with a >precision strike on Perle. Wait until the 100,000 rein ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 17:04:49 PST 2003

25269 more on NY protests -- rank: 1000

Newsday.com - March 27, 2003, 7:30 PM EST Anti-War Protests Spark Outrage By Joshua Robin Staff Writer About 190 anti-war protesters were arrested Thursday after they blocked traffic on Fifth Avenue -- part of a daylong series of demonstrations throughout the city. The blockade, near Rockefeller Center, started at 8:20 a.m., snarling rush-hour for about 15 minutes and triggering scores of confrontations between those supporting and opposing the war in Iraq. "I'm furious. These people are su ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:57:56 PST 2003

25270 new IPS report -- rank: 1000

RUMSFELD IGNORED WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN PURSUIT OF OIL PIPELINE NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS HAWKS' EFFORTS ON BECHTEL'S BEHALF FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 24, 2003 Examining recently released government and corporate sources, researchers at the Institute for Policy Studies have uncovered new evidence that oil has long been the driving concern behind US-Iraqi relations. Key figures associated with the Bush Administration, in particular Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, pressed Saddam Hussein du ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:39:43 PST 2003

25271 the amazing Randy's last word -- rank: 1000

The last word from the Ayn Rand dude (responding to my assertion that Iraq never attacked us and had nothing to do with 9/11, unlike Saudi Arabia): >Iraq is a threat to the US and that's reason enough to attack it. Of >course we should attack Saudi Arabia, as I pointed out in my last email.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:26:27 PST 2003

25272 From "Plain Sailing" to "Where the Hell Are We?" to "Up the Creek" -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >Cockburn is not using Bill White as a source, as you imply. But I suppose >it does reveal his fascist tendencies that he mentions that a Guardian >(UK) article was "re-run gleefully by LSN"... How would you feel if it had read "re-run gleefully by Volkischer Beobachter"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:16:27 PST 2003

25273 silent majorities -- rank: 1000

Interesting point from one of the members of the public opinion list - a quote from Ben Ginsburg's The Captive Public on the Nixon administration's attitudes about opinion on the Vietnam war: >"From the administration's perspective, the real virtue >of the silent majority was precisely its silence. Many of those >Americans who remained silent did so because they lacked strong opinions >on the political issues of the day. The use of polls to identity a >"silent majority ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:09:29 PST 2003

25274 NPR on the war -- rank: 1000

Steven wrote: >Doug said: > >Well you can listen to me this afternoon at 5 <http://www.wbai.org>. >My guests will be contributors to the collection Implicating Empire - >Heather Gautney, Ellen Willis, Michael Hardt. > >Doug, is this streamed via the web live? Or is there anyway I can >listen to it live from the West Coast? Yup, it is on the web - you can get it from the wbai.org address above. I'll also post it to my radio web archive soon (I'm a bit behind on that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 16:06:38 PST 2003

25275 From "Plain Sailing" to "Where the Hell Are We?" to "Up the Creek" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Anybody care to tell Cockburn that when he mentioned LSN that he >gave credibility to one of the biggest anti-semitic and neo-nazi >loons on the East Coast? It looks like AK Press is publishing a collection of Counterpunch pieces on the topic of anti-Semitism, including Michael Neumann's loopy stuff. Maybe quoting White is part of their research. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 13:16:25 PST 2003