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US begins the process of 'regime change'
The Observer ^
| Sunday April 6, 2003
| Ed Vulliamy in New York and Kamal Ahmed
Posted on 04/05/2003 7:14:22 PM PST by LisaAnne
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:14:23 PM PST
by
LisaAnne
Pentagon officials told The Observer that the administration is determined to impose the Rumsfeld plan and sees no use for a UN role, describing the international body as 'irrelevant'.
I particularly like that part. :o)
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:17:18 PM PST
by
LisaAnne
To: LisaAnne
YEAH BABY
RUMMY PLAN for Iraq LOVE THAT Lisa
Rack ittttt
So who going be new dude in charge not Tommy Franks probably one of US colonals not him
He need back in USA
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:19:35 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(GAME OVER Saddam your a** is grass)
To: LisaAnne
Me too!
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:22:59 PM PST
by
annyokie
(provacative yet educational reading alert)
To: LisaAnne
former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine based in BaghdadSomebody please tell me this isn't the same gal who stuck it to the CIA and the FBI when they were trying to investigate the Cole?
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:27:27 PM PST
by
Maigret
To: SevenofNine
No, not Tommy Franks. I cannot remember the name that was talked about before the war. I believe he is a general that speaks a number of Arabic languages. I'll see if I can find that article.
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:27:31 PM PST
by
LisaAnne
To: LisaAnne
Good news, keep the UN out, if they were to be let in, it would take 12 years for them to make their first decision.
To: annyokie
You've put up some great photo's lately. This one is choice!
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:32:23 PM PST
by
Oorang
To: LisaAnne; *war_list; W.O.T.; 11th_VA; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; knak; sakka; MadIvan; ..
To: Maigret
Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine
(former) U.S. Ambassador to Yemen
Barbara K. Bodine, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is currently Diplomat in Residence at the University of Southern California, Santa Barbara. She last served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen. During her posting in Sanaa, the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in a terrorist attack. In 1999, she negotiated for hours to release three Americans kidnapped in Yemen. In 2001, a flight carrying Ambassador Bodine and 90 other passengers from Yemen was hijacked mid-flight. The plane was diverted to Africa, where it landed without further incident.
After initial tours in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Ambassador Bodine has spent her career working primarily on Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. She has twice served in the Bureau of Near East Affairs' Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, first as Country Officer for the Yemenis, then as Political-Military officer for the peninsula. She later served as Deputy Office Director. Ambassador Bodine has also had assignments as Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad, Iraq, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990. She was awarded the Secretary of State's Award for Valor for her work in occupied Kuwait.
Following Kuwait, Ambassador Bodine was the Associate Coordinator for Operations and later served as the Acting Coordinator for Counterterrorism. She went on to serve as the Dean of Professional Studies at the Department's Foreign Service Institute. She has worked on the secretariat staff of Secretaries Kissinger and Vance, and as a Congressional Fellow in the office of Senator Robert Dole. Most recently, Ms. Bodine spent a year as the Director of East African Affairs.
Ambassador Bodine was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned her B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She received her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of State's Language Training Field Schools in Taiwan and Tunisia. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSB Alumni Association and on the Advisory Council to the Program on Southwest Asian and Islamic Civilization Studies at the Fletcher School. She was the recipient of the UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumni Award in 1991.
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:34:46 PM PST
by
Oorang
To: LisaAnne
Geez, the headline had me thinking I was about to read the latest on John Kerry.
To: Oorang
Thanks! Here's a cartoon for ya'll:
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:47:33 PM PST
by
annyokie
(provacative yet educational reading alert)
To: LisaAnne
OOHHHH wait a minute I Think I know who you talking about YEAH that guy OH I can't think of his name he does work for US Miiltary he is very influent in Arabic lanunge
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posted on
04/05/2003 7:48:49 PM PST
by
SevenofNine
(GAME OVER Saddam your a** is grass)
To: LisaAnne
To: LisaAnne
ditto
Pentagon officials told The Observer that the administration is determined to impose the Rumsfeld plan and sees no use for a UN role, describing the international body as 'irrelevant'.
To: LisaAnne
Do you mean Gen. Abizaid?
From The Washington Times:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030124-7454848.htm "The buzz on Abizaid
Pentagon chatter says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld finally has his own man at U.S. Central Command to supervise a war against Iraq: Army Lt. Gen. John P. Abizaid.
Officials said the hard-charging Mr. Rumsfeld was not always happy with the way Gen. Tommy Franks ran the war in Afghanistan. He has worried that Gen. Franks, chief of U.S. Central Command, will not be innovative enough in waging war against Iraq.
Now, however, Mr. Rumsfeld has plucked a general from the Joint Staff at the Pentagon and sent him to Central Command as Mr. Franks' deputy. In fact, Gen. Abizaid is already at CentCom's warfighting command center in Qatar getting ready to direct a war.
It was an odd move, given that CentCom already had a deputy commander, who is staying at its Tampa headquarters. But it does give Mr. Rumsfeld a deputy in the Gulf region whom he fully trusts.
A favorite of the defense secretary, Gen. Abizaid is a West Point graduate and career infantryman who speaks fluent Arabic, a skill that should help with Persian Gulf allies.
He also speaks German and Italian, a skill that helped when he commanded the 1st Infantry Division in Germany in 1999-2000."
To: LisaAnne
"It was reported yesterday that the National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice has also ruled out any key role for the UN." Bravo!
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posted on
04/05/2003 8:55:05 PM PST
by
blam
To: FairOpinion
Yes, Gen, Abizaid was the one I was thinking of. Thanks!
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posted on
04/06/2003 12:02:57 AM PST
by
LisaAnne
To: LisaAnne
I NEVER thought I would see the day...where I would be reading stuff like this!!!!! GO USA GO USA GO USA BRAVO BRAVO FREEDOM FOR THESE PEOPLE!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA
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posted on
04/06/2003 12:14:20 AM PST
by
Lucas1
To: Oorang
And this is what I found online from the New Yorker article on O'Neill, the subject of the Frontline program. I am NOT comforted by the thought of her being part of anything to do with Iraq!
John O'Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda.
Issue of 2002-01-14
Excerpt...
O'Neill knew that Yemen was going to be an extremely difficult place in which to conduct an investigation. In 1992, bin Laden's network had bombed a hotel in Aden, hoping to kill a number of American soldiers. The country was filled with spies and with jihadis and was reeling from a 1994 civil war. "Yemen is a country of eighteen million citizens and 50 million machine guns," O'Neill reported. On the day the investigators arrived in Yemen, O'Neill warned them, "This may be the most hostile environment the F.B.I. has ever operated in."
The American Ambassador to Yemen, Barbara Bodine, saw things differently. In her eyes, Yemen was the poor and guileless cousin of the swaggering petro-monarchies of the Persian Gulf. Unlike other countries in the region, it was a constitutional democracyhowever fragilein which women were allowed to vote. Bodine had had extensive experience in Arab countries. During the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait, she had been the deputy chief of mission in Kuwait City, and she had stayed through the hundred-and-thirty-seven-day siege of the American Embassy by Iraqi troops until all the Americans were evacuated.
Bodine, who is on assignment from the State Department as diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Santa Barbara, contends that she and O'Neill had agreed that he would bring in a team of no more than fifty. She was furious when three hundred investigators, support staff, and marines arrived, many carrying automatic weapons. "Try to imagine if a military plane from another country landed in Des Moines, and three hundred heavily armed people took over," she told me recently. Bodine recalled that she pleaded with O'Neill to consider the delicate diplomatic environment he was entering. She quoted him as responding, "We don't care about the environment. We're just here to investigate a crime."
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posted on
04/06/2003 9:48:04 AM PDT
by
Maigret
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