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25276 months to victory, Pentagon sez -- rank: 1000

[do they really believe this, or are they playing games with expectations?] Sydney Morning Herald - March 28, 2003 Months to victory, US warns By Marian Wilkinson in Washington, Christopher Kremmer and agencies Senior Pentagon officials believe the Iraq war could take months, not weeks, to win amid indications that the assault on Baghdad may have to be delayed. The United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell, said in a radio interview yesterday the war "may take a little bit longer, [we] ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 13:14:31 PST 2003

25277 NPR on the war -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Because Amy Goodman is only on two hours a day and there is little >to listen to until the Capitals or Wizards play each night. Point of clarification: are you really an Amy Goodman fan, or are you making a joke? >I'm sorry, but I'd rather watch paint dry than listen to Gary Null >and most of those piss poor Pacifica shows. Hey, Gary's feeling persecuted. He's been cut back from 5 days a week to 4, and he's raising money to sue. What a whiner. By the way, he lets pigs ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 12:23:36 PST 2003

25278 NPR on the war -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm sorry, but I'd rather watch paint dry than listen to Gary Null >and most of those piss poor Pacifica shows. 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

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 12:19:18 PST 2003

25279 NPR on the war -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >NPR 3/27 > >criticism - "we didn't hit them hard enough" > >shock and awe - "a worthy effort to make warfare more humane"; > >"tremendously successful and impressive to date" Why the hell does anyone listen to NPR? It's boring as hell and utterly complicit with power. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 12:04:06 PST 2003

25280 Fwd: RE: Peaceniks' Motivation -- rank: 1000

more from our Randy propagandist - I wasn't aware that Iraq had attacked the U.S., but maybe he has private information >From: "ARI Media" <davidh at aynrand.org> >To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >Subject: RE: Peaceniks' Motivation >Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 11:44:56 -0800 > >Ayn Rand argued that wars are *initiated* by statists. We are responding >to September 11 and the terrorist threat. From AR: >"Just as an individual has t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 12:01:35 PST 2003

25281 Ayn Rand sez: Death of Civilians Should Not Hinder War Effort -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Hayek's a major thinker. Even in Prices and Production? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 11:31:56 PST 2003

25282 Sleuthing (wasRe: IRAQWAR.RU 3/26) -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: >i guess i don't see how the information is particularly damaging. we >know they're spying on us and, hence, not everything GRS is >intercepting is "the truth". some of it is probably created just for >their consumption. > >and i guess i don't see how we are in some unexpected state of world >conditions that the US gubmint hasn't expected all along. If the >Thirty Year Itch article is at all correct, and I think it is, this >is all in the plan, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 11:24:35 PST 2003

25283 military salaries -- rank: 1000

[CGC are the folks who compile the notorious monthly layoff announcement stats.] DATE March 27, 2003 FOR Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. For Release Upon Receipt Complaints About Job? Read On..... U.S. PAYS UNDER $16K TO FIGHT WAR NEW YORK -- Would you go to war for your country for less than $16,000 per year? A new survey of military salaries by international outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., shows that troops in Iraq are doing just that. The lowest salaries be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 11:20:56 PST 2003

25284 Ayn Rand sez: Death of Civilians Should Not Hinder War Effort -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >I would agree. The one truly smart Objectivist around is Chris >Sciabarara, who needless to say, would never write a piece of >crap, like that of David Holcberg. Then again, Chris is one of the >few Objectivists and libertarians who has more than a superficial >knowledge of Marxism and Hegelianism. It is curious that most of the >orthodox Objectivists have become staunch war mongers despite, >what should be obvious to them, that "war is the heal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 11:08:19 PST 2003

25285 Leninism in 2003 (was: Re: Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 1000

Alan Jacobson wrote: > >When I get home, I'll check with my Dictionary of Marxist Thought to >>see what it says. >> > >Doug > >From Dictionary of Marxist Thought, edit. Thomas Bottomore, etc 1991 >edition, p. 311: > >Leninism >(excerpt) Here's the full entry. It's scanned, so apologies for any stray errors remaining. Important elements that our resident Leninists didn't feature in their definitions are: the centrality of The Party (singular, with a cap ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 10:43:58 PST 2003

25286 Bush's poll numbers -- rank: 1000

[the conclusion of Ruy Teixeira's latest Public Opinion Watch, which reviews 43's approval numbers and finds them more skewed by party and lower in general than 41's during GW I] It also means that the war in Iraq is unlikely to wipe out Bush's ongoing political problems. Charlie Cook argues that: "The real political consequences of policy miscalculations have been masked to a certain extent by the halo effect of the terrorist attacks and the focus on foreign policy. Very real symptoms rega ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 10:17:40 PST 2003

25287 journos & the war -- rank: 1000

[Doesn't Murdoch run the editorial line of this paper?] Times (London) - March 27, 2003 Don't shoot the messenger. You've no idea how difficult this war is to cover Janine di Giovanni Reporters are once again coming under fire, this time not only from Tomahawk missiles and Kalashnikov rounds, but from the usual criticism that comes whenever a war is brought to our homes via that extraordinary device, "real time" television. Most of the flak is aimed at American network reporters going ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 10:08:12 PST 2003

25288 Q&A -- rank: 1000

Christian Gregory wrote: >Wow, a culturally gay straight boy--such an ideal. I'm still trying >to be a culturally gay gay boy, and it's really hard! (But that >comes from being stuck in Alabama, I think.) I wonder if that would >make me a culturally straight gay boy in Dategirl's eyes. And, gulp, >what would that mean? Write dategirl and see what she says! <dategirl at earthlink.net>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 09:57:14 PST 2003

25289 NYC die-in; 140 arrested -- rank: 1000

Anti-War 'Die-In' Snarls New York NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested more than 140 protesters who lay down in the middle of New York's 5th Avenue during Thursday morning rush hour as part of a "die-in" to protest the U.S.-led war on Iraq (news - web sites). About 400 anti-war activists converged near Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan, many of them lying on their backs near the intersection of 49th Street and 5th Avenue and others holding signs and chanting "No War, No Oil, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 08:57:12 PST 2003

25290 Q&A -- rank: 1000

[a break from all the war news, this dispatch from the gender front, from NY Press's new sex advice columnist - this is her first real column - last week's was just a throat-clearing hello] New York Press - March 26, 2003 Date Girl Judy Mcguire Dear Dategirl, I'm going to flat out tell you I am an asshole. I ain't proud of it. I'm trying not to be one. I'm learning to be "normal." Unfortunately, my friends and coworkers won't take me out of the box I put myself in. I'm not writing so I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 08:00:58 PST 2003