And does this look like "an Arab?
Posted on 09/14/2002 9:05:35 AM PDT by HAL9000
To: Duty Intern From: fill in duty project officer name Subject: Rahall Safe Arrival
(and, Intern, for god's sake, make sure you send this in most secret code _ WITH NO COPIES!
Rahall - Good to see you've arrived safely and were able to get all the stuff past the Iqs.
Distribute the cash and documents to the Iq opp as planned.
Change in plan on planting Israeli material on SH son. Col who was to carry been sent to NF zone and is judged to be still OK. Trying to recruit from SH most trusted guards an officer whose kid in Eu needs much cash. Will inform within 48.
Final - Try to get pictures with micro-camera of new large squarish building half mile NNE of hotel. OUT
Intern- quiet and secret, got it?
Think you missed the zinger in there. Do I need to draw a diagram??????
U.S. Delegation Arrives in Iraq
Sat Sep 14, 6:22 AM ET
By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An American delegation headed by West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall arrived in Iraq on Saturday, with members saying they would push for peace as well as the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.
"We are on a humanitarian mission ... not only to convince the Iraqi people that the American people are concerned with their suffering, but also to show that the American people, their vast majority, are peace-waging individuals," said Rahall, a Democrat.
The delegation, which also includes former South Dakota Sen. James Abourezk, plans to visit hospitals in Baghdad. The trip is sponsored by the Institute of Public Accuracy, a Washington-based group of analysts.
The delegation flew to Baghdad overnight from Syria. It arrived two days after President Bush told the U.N. General Assembly that the Iraqi government must grant access to U.N. weapons inspectors or face a confrontation.
Ratcheting up the pressure Friday, Bush said he was "talking days and weeks" for a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that would demand Iraq admit inspectors or face the consequences. Iraq has barred inspectors, who are charged with verifying the elimination of its weapons of mass destruction, since 1998.
Speaking in the al-Rasheed Hotel, Rahall said he had no scheduled meetings with Iraqi government officials, but "if such opportunity presents itself, it is my desire to stress upon the Iraqi government and its president that they must accept unconditional access to their country by U.N. weapons inspectors."
Rahall said the return of inspectors would be a step toward peace, but he declined to say if it would put an end to Bush's desire to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"I cannot speak on behalf of President Bush. I am not here as a secretary of state or a weapons inspector. I am here as individual member of congress who has questions that I would like to get answers to," Rahall said.
The other delegates are Nick Solomon, the head of the Institute of Public Accuracy, and James Jennings, the president of Conscience International — an Atlanta-based aid and rights group. The State Department has approved the trip, the first by a U.S. legislator to Iraq in several years.
And does this look like "an Arab?
I should have caught that. Thanks for the correction.
The article is a computer translation from German.
Watch your mouth. That's my mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother you are talking about there. We prefer the term "Mountain William".
Nick Joe is a punk. And the heir apparent to Bobby Byrd (who is falling rapidly downhill). I've met the man more than once and watched him campaign a few times. He's the best snake oil salesman in the state.
Make that Nick Joe 'The Appeaser' Rahall
As I have posted on another thread, Nick Rahall is perhaps the biggest lush on Capitol Hill. Yes, that's right, a bigger lush than either Senators Kennedy or Dodd.
I stayed at the bar at "Bullfeathers," the closest watering hole to the Capitol of the Free World, for three hours one night to watch Rahall drink himself into oblivion four feet away from me. His Administrative Assistant and the two lobbyists who were with him, pretended that they did not notice that the Congressman had lost the ability to pronounce the letter "S" and had a death grip on the bar so he wouldn't topple off his stool. A Senator who shall remain unnamed decribed that to me as "stool-hugging drunk."
Rahall is also a member of the taxpayer-funded millionaires club. He has served (or should it be, has been served) in the House so long that his congressional pension will well exceed $1 million, if his liver holds out long enough for him to receive it.
I suspect that Rahall's participation in this journey was procured by substantial campaign donations plus a promise of an open bar on the plane, all the way over and all the way back.
Congressman Billybob
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