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25426 precedents? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - March 19, 2003 Past Mideast Invasions Faced Unexpected Perils Invaders Have Been Repelled While Arab Casualties Mount By HUGH POPE and PETER WALDMAN Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL As President Bush steers the U.S. toward war, history offers a sobering lesson. For two centuries, foreign powers have been conquering Mideast lands for their own purposes, promising to uplift Arab societies along the way. Sometimes they have modernized cities, taught new ideas and bro ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 19 07:00:44 PST 2003

25427 Zizek on iraq -- rank: 1000

<http://www.lacan.com/iraq.htm> THE IRAQ WAR: WHERE IS THE TRUE DANGER? by Slavoj Zizek [...] Where, then, do we stand with reasons pro et contra? Abstract pacifism is intellectually stupid and morally wrong - one has to stand up against a threat. Of course the fall of Saddam would have been a relief to a large majority of the Iraqi people. Even more, of course the militant Islam is a horrifying anti-feminist etc. ideology. Of course there is something of a hypocrisy in all the reasons aga ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 18 22:01:24 PST 2003

25428 BW worries about GWB -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why separate the USG's action toward Iraq from its actions toward >Colombia, Korea, the Philippines, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, etc.? No reason to. I don't see why it's so hard to say the U.S. has long been brutally imperialist, and the current gang represents a turn for the worse. For them, Iraq is the first step in a long battle for intensified imperial supremacy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 13:31:25 PST 2003

25429 BW worries about GWB -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >At the risk of raising the specter of anti-semitism (and bearing in >mind that I'm Jewish here), I wonder if the specifically Lukidnik >ultra-Zionist commitments of some of the neocons behaind PNAC >(Perle, Wolfie, etc.) play a big role here. They play a role, but the gentile right is entirely with them. I watched a segment on CNN yesterday featuring Norman Solomon (who did very well) against Armstrong Williams (the right-wing black talk radio guy). Willia ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 11:12:07 PST 2003

25430 who needs evidence? -- rank: 1000

Cheney Disagrees with IAEA Nuclear Report on Iraq 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites) said on Sunday he disagreed with the recent assertion by the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency that Iraq (news - web sites) was not developing nuclear weapons. With President Bush (news - web sites) working on a final endgame in the standoff with Iraq over alleged weapons of mass destruction, Cheney said U.S. intelligence experts disagreed with the finding by Internatio ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 10:47:33 PST 2003

25431 NYT: Anger on Iraq Seen as New Qaeda Recruiting Tool -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >That's why we must invade Iraq to further the war against terrorism, >because otherwise we won't have more terrorists agisnt whom to >fight, right? jks Yeah, what about the Saudi & German intelligence dudes at Davos that Laurie Garrett quoted as saying there are only 200 AQ members left? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 10:43:32 PST 2003

25432 Fwd: Carnival Bloc on the Day of the War -- rank: 1000

All Out With The Carnival Bloc! Despite our best efforts and the world's disapproval it looks like our Idiot Boy King might get the war he wants. We need to show the world that we're not with him. A few months ago No Blood For Oil initiated a call to meet in Times Square at 5pm the day the attack on Iraq begins. United For Peace and Justice has taken up that call and suggested that groups meet outside of Times Square and walk in together. SoŠ Reclaim the Streets/New York City is putting out a ca ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 10:37:27 PST 2003

25433 BW worries about GWB -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >NB, have people noticed that this is a case for relative autonomy. >Despite the importance of oil in this equation, the war and the US >hegemonic drive is decidedly NOT reflecting the wishes or interests >of the big bourgeoisie. This is state-driven, primarily. Yup, and that state was appropriated by a particular sectoral, geographical, and ideological gang, more thuggish than the median. And right now, these guys are so awful that I'm happy to have BW mak ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 16 10:22:53 PST 2003

25434 Russia bans gays... -- rank: 1000

ChrisD(RJ) wrote: >And, if I live to be 1000, I will not understand homophobia. > >Joanna >--- >No kidding. I just happened to read this quote today: >"The Greek symbolizes ancient sex ... and homosexuality >uninhibited sexuality and wonderful bodies." -- Rainer Werner >Fassbinder Uninhibited sex and corporeality makes lots of people very nervous. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 15 16:57:48 PST 2003

25435 BW worries about GWB -- rank: 1000

Business Week - March 24, 2003 BEYOND THE WAR By Bruce Nussbaum Commentary: The High Price of Bad Diplomacy Mismanaging the runup to war will do more than squander goodwill and damage alliances The U.S. has already lost the prewar battle over Iraq, whatever the outcome of a further U.N. vote. Even if it wins a fig-leaf majority vote in the Security Council, America will be entering its first preemptive war faced with opposition from nearly all of its allies and much of the rest of the planet. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 15 16:12:42 PST 2003

25436 Recent postings on Supporting facts -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >?btw -- i just got *another* email from supportingfacts on some >other list of theirs. it's very annoying, and i have a feeling i'm >not alone. Yeah, I don't mind when people who participate otherwise post announcements, but this list isn't intended as an advertising medium. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 14 10:55:05 PST 2003

25437 Note to Doug re Powell -- rank: 1000

BrownBingb at aol.com wrote: >harles: When you raised this , what popped into my mind was Bush >saying he would get Bin Laden Dead or Alive. Here it is a year and >a half later and they have failed to do that, but the American >peanut gallery doesn't care/remember. Their attention span , memory >, reasoning is similar to that of a three year old. People are encouraged to act that way. But they also tell pollsters that they're still worried about al Qaeda, and more than a few wor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 18:09:50 PST 2003

25438 Unicef appeals for donations for N Korea -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar wrote: >Unicef appeals for urgent donations for N Korea <http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=252667> Japan Today - Friday, March 14, 2003 Japan, U.S. consider sanctions on N Korea TOKYO - Japan will impose economic sanctions on North Korea jointly with the United States and other willing nations if it test-launches a ballistic missile, Japanese government sources said Thursday. The sanctions, which would include the suspension of cash transfers to N ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 16:45:17 PST 2003

25439 vote on media conservative or liberal? -- rank: 1000

steve philion wrote: >http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/moneyline/ Egads, also on that page: >The U.S. and the U.N. > >Christopher Hitchens >Thursday, March 13, 2003 > >Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair says the United States and >Britain must act alone against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein >because the United Nations is incapable. He joins us.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 16:02:56 PST 2003

25440 Query: recent personal debt figures? -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >I've been wondering about these numbers. On the one hand, they seem >high. But on the other hand, the average personal debt has recently >eclipsed yearly income -- which SOUNDS scary, but isn't this just an >artifact of increased home-ownership? I don't know about you, but >almost everyone I know who owns a home has personal debt that FAR >outstrips their yearly income. > >I mean, like, so what? So more people are in that boat. Something like > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 13 16:00:39 PST 2003