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25636 [lbo-talk] WP redoes Jessica Lynch -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2760-2003Jun16.html>

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 09:46:33 PDT 2003

25637 [lbo-talk] Russia Plans Embargo On Iraqi Oil Shipments -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >More than likely not. They might put on a show of force, I suppose. > >What could the US really do in response, though (outside of >responding with further naval power)? The US has very little >leverage on Russia, and boy it would make Putin's ratings soar to >Zeus-like levels! Do you think the U.S. would let Russia get away with this? Bush would probably bring us to the brink of nuclear war rather than look like a wuss. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 08:52:15 PDT 2003

25638 [lbo-talk] Russia Plans Embargo On Iraqi Oil Shipments -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Russian subs are designed to hunt and kill American aircraft >carriers. That's what the fleet is based on. But they're not crazy enough to use the things, are they?

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 08:41:21 PDT 2003

25639 [lbo-talk] more Iraq polls -- rank: 1000

[the latest from Gallup] American Public Opinion About Iraq Tuesday, June 17, 2003 Most Americans think it is likely that Iraq indeed did have weapons of mass destruction (WMD) before the Iraq war began in March, although the number of Americans who are certain about this has dropped since February. A slight majority of the public, however, is still willing to support the idea of congressional hearings into what the government knew about Iraq's capabilities to produce WMD at the time the United ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 08:23:22 PDT 2003

25640 [lbo-talk] deficits -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >What about this argument that big deficits cause long >term interest rates to rise? Is there anything to >that, in your view? If the economy were growing faster, deficits could push up interest rates, sure. But there's not enough private credit demand now to matter. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 17 08:06:52 PDT 2003

25641 [lbo-talk] deficits -- rank: 1000

Today's Goldman Sachs economic commentary notes: >DAILY FINANCIAL MARKET COMMENT 06/17/03 Goldman Sachs Economics > >* The US budget outlook continues to deteriorate. Although our >$425-billion estimate of the fiscal 2003 deficit still looks >reasonable, we are lifting our estimate of the fiscal 2004 >shortfall to $475 billion from $450 billion. Over the next >ten years (fiscal 2004-2013), we now expect a $4.5-trillion >cumulative deficit, versus $4.2 trillion when we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 16 20:01:03 PDT 2003

25642 [lbo-talk] re:Margolis: Why There is No WMD Outrage -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Although to be fair to the Dems, I think it's clear they would have set up >an investigatory committee on this (as well as on Halliburton contracts) >if they had a nominal majority in either house of Congress. They are >really playing with few cards. When the Reps were a minority, they raised hell all the time. That's because they really believe in something. And they became a majority. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 16:10:11 PDT 2003

25643 [lbo-talk] Dean: hang 'em high! -- rank: 1000

Times-Argus (Barre/Montpelier, Vermont) - June 14, 2003 Dean aligns with Bush on death penalty By TRACY SCHMALER Vermont Press Bureau Former Gov. Howard Dean appears to be shedding some of the liberal tendencies that have won him national attention as he now expands his support for the death penalty. In his 11 years as Vermont's governor, his position on capital punishment "evolved" from staunch opposition to limited support, Dean acknowledges. Now, on the stump for the Democratic nomi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 16 15:13:56 PDT 2003

25644 [lbo-talk] more on that WMD poll -- rank: 1000

The poll showing large numbers of Americans imagining that WMDs were found in Iraq - and even used during the war - is reported at <http://pipa.org/whatsnew/html/new_6_04_03.html>. A choice excerpt: >Among those who approved of the decision to go to war and were not >just supporting the president (53% of the sample), a majority of 52% >said the US has found weapons of mass destruction (48%) or did not >know (4%). > >Among Republicans who said they follow international aff ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 15:10:07 PDT 2003

25645 [lbo-talk] re:Margolis: Why There is No WMD Outrage -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Hammering away at the >fact they lied -- and repeating it over and over and over -- is exactly >the right method for inducing a credibility crisis. I saw an old college friend this past weekend who had just been to a reunion at the Kennedy School. She said all the Dems in the crowd (and it was mostly Dems, some of them pretty high-powered, given the environment) were reluctant to go after Bush directly. I said, "You mean they won't call him a liar and warmong ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 14:31:44 PDT 2003

25646 [lbo-talk] what the world thinks of America -- rank: 1000

World Opposed to Bush and Iraq War, BBC Poll Says Mon June 16, 2003 01:05 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A majority of people around the world view President Bush unfavorably and think the United States was wrong to invade Iraq, according to a BBC poll published Monday. The poll, which surveyed more than 11,000 people in 11 countries, showed 57 percent of those asked had "a very unfavorable or fairly unfavorable attitude toward the American president," the British broadcaster said in a state ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 13:32:13 PDT 2003

25647 [lbo-talk] neocons fading? -- rank: 1000

[asks Newsweek, of all things] Newsweek - June 23, 2003 The Mideast: Neocons on the Line A growing number of critics on Capitol Hill and around the world are questioning the Bush administration's credibility-and its assumptions-as never before. By Michael Hirsh Paul Wolfowitz seems a bundle of contradictions, all of them roiling inside him. Calm yet driven, a champion of bold action who speaks in a soft, somewhat quavery voice, Wolfowitz today finds himself pacing the world stage like a nervous ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 13:16:44 PDT 2003

25648 [lbo-talk] social notes -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - June 16, 2003 SLIPPERY SOIREE K-Y lubricant has other uses besides the obvious. Flame-haired designer Patricia Field will host tomorrow's launch party of the limited-edition booklet, "The Modern Girl's Guide [to] Everyday Uses for K-Y Brand," being held at W New York in Midtown. Guests will include Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes, Betsey Johnson and Dr. Judy Kuriansky, who all provided "non-sexual" uses for the lube - such as lip gloss, slipping into go-g ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 12:57:53 PDT 2003

25649 [lbo-talk] re:Margolis: Why There is No WMD Outrage -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Thiago wrote: > >I wonder: does anyone take the WMD stuff seriously? > >******* > > >There are people, in the US at least, who accept the >official narrative without question. Don't forget that poll showing that about one-third of Americans think Iraq used WMDs during the war. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 08:23:00 PDT 2003

25650 [lbo-talk] those trailers -- rank: 1000

["So we went to war for two trucks?" Helen Thomas asked Ari Fleischer the other week.] Observer (London) - June 15, 2003 Iraqi mobile labs nothing to do with germ warfare, report finds Peter Beaumont, Antony Barnett and Gaby Hinsliff An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as t ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 16 07:01:18 PDT 2003