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25306 worldly -- rank: 1000

This is from James Meek's report in yesterday's Guardian. It almost sounds like a hoax... >A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the >ancient city of Ur, founded 8,000 years ago, the birth place of >Abraham and a flourishing metropolis at a time when the inhabitants >of north-west Europe were still walking round in animal skins. > >Sgt Sprague, from White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, passed it >on his way north, but he never knew it was there. > & ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:29:17 PST 2003

25307 Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Troops home! End the Occupation! Get out of Iraq! Forget introspection! Shout slogans instead!

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:25:54 PST 2003

25308 Brazile gung-ho -- rank: 1000

Washington Times - March 26, 2003 Brazile says her party must support troops By Donald Lambro THE WASHINGTON TIMES Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says she backs President Bush's war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and wants her party's leaders to project a stronger message that they support what U.S. troops are doing in Iraq. Miss Brazile, who managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, said she is not happy with the way Democratic congressional leaders have handled the party's message on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:23:39 PST 2003

25309 ROTC goes plainclothes -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - March 26, 2003 Vandalism to ROTC Building Prompts Change in Uniform Policy at U. of Iowa By WILL POTTER Officials at the University of Iowa, responding to vandalism and antiwar graffiti, decided on Monday to stop requiring cadets in the Reserve Officer Training Corps to wear their camouflage uniforms to class. Lt. Col. Carol St. John, a professor of military science who oversees the university's ROTC program, said the move was meant to diminish the mil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:13:27 PST 2003

25310 Elite Iraqi Guard Heads Toward Marines -- rank: 1000

Bradford DeLong wrote: >There was *some* grandeur in being a stooge for Lenin. There is none >in being a stooge for Saddam Hussein. Well if the press reports are to be believed, even Iraqis who hate SH are picking up guns. Is that the same as being a stooge? And what about being a stooge for George Bush? Is there any grandeur in that? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:09:05 PST 2003

25311 Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >In the sense of _unknown_. The only understanding of Lenin I've ever >seen on this list is an understanding which equates his thought with a >parodic version of third-international thought. I've read quite a bit of Lenin, and I still don't really know what it means to be a Leninist in the USA of 2003. Perhaps you could join Yoshie in clarifying this for me. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:08:03 PST 2003

25312 Hitch: Keep Our Nerve -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >Since Peter K has bolted, I suppose someone has to toss this dead >fish on the table: > ><<http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12773688&method=full&siteid=50143>http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12773688&method=full&siteid=50143> > >Robert Fisk is in Baghdad Hitch -- why aren't you? A few words from the former Christopher Hitchens, a leading exemplar of the "cretinization of the mass ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 12:02:48 PST 2003

25313 NYC poll on war -- rank: 1000

[the headline is a wee bit exaggerated] New York Post - March 26, 2003 APPLE SURGES IN WAR SUPPORT By RITA DELFINER The Big Apple is profoundly split over waging war in Iraq - but more city residents are supporting the campaign since the battle began last week, a new poll has found. And an increasing number of New Yorkers approve of President Bush's performance as commander-in-chief, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute also reported. The poll was done in two parts, last Tuesday and Wedne ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 11:24:07 PST 2003

25314 Taibbi's latest -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >>Let's not forget the best special effect of all: Ted Koppel >>wearing full combat fatigues. Koppel achieves the rare distinction >>of looking even more preposterous in an army helmet than Michael >>Dukakis. >> >>Carl > >Perhaps, an army helmet doesn't sit well on a toupee. Which reminds me of a wonderful moment on Nightline many years ago. Seymour Hersh was on after having written something unflattering about Henry Kissinger. ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 11:17:43 PST 2003

25315 Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm a self-identified Leninist here, and I'd like to hear what you >don't like about what I say or why you find what I say irrelevant. I have a lot of problems with your absolute certainty about so many things, which is probably as much a matter of temperament as philosophy. But I don't find what you say irrelevant. What I do find irrelevant is the whole vanguard party idea. In fact, I don't really understand what it means to be a Leninist in the USA in 2003. What' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 11:13:38 PST 2003

25316 Dixie Chicks update -- rank: 1000

[from another list - attributed to Tuesday's USA Today - they're paying a big price, and that groveling apology seems to have done no good] Country radio is still holding a grudge against the Dixie Chicks for their criticism of President Bush. On next week's Billboard country singles chart, the Chicks' Travelin' Soldier drops from No. 3 to No. 23, losing nearly two-thirds of the previous week's airplay total. Darryl Worley's pro-war Have You Forgotten is up 20% and hits No. 1 after only five wee ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 10:50:11 PST 2003

25317 Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 12:08 AM +0000 3/26/03, loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >>Yoshie, I'm not sure exactly what you are driving at by posting an >>article by Lenin on revolutionary defeatism in the war between >>Russia and Germany / Austria-Hungary, because of course a Leninist >>position on a war between an imperialist power and a country which >>it is attempting to conquer and colonize is significantly different >>(and I know very well that I'm not ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:58:34 PST 2003

25318 mixed emotions -- rank: 1000

[details at <http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr030326.asp>] POLL ANALYSES March 26, 2003 War Makes Americans Confident, Sad Personal lives less affected than during first Gulf War and 9/11 by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- As the war with Iraq dominates the news, Americans find themselves conflicted with various emotions. While relatively few have publicly expressed their views by demonstrating either for or against the war, many more are reacting in more private a ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:53:34 PST 2003

25319 Time to flee the US? -- rank: 1000

suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp wrote: >when mitterand was elected, i had (literate) american friends asking >me what it felt now to live in a socialist country. it took me a >while to understand what they meant. Hey, don't forget that racist idiot Trent Lott's comments from a few years ago, demanding that Michel Camdessus resign from the IMF because he was "a socialist from France." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:48:29 PST 2003

25320 Revolutionary Defeatism RE: POW's -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Kelley, you are introspecting too much So the examined life isn't worth living, is it? Is that why you're so hostile to psychoanalysis? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 26 09:42:03 PST 2003