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World Bank, IMF pull staff out of Iraq
AP
| 8/20/03
| EDITH M. LEDERER
Posted on 08/20/2003 11:22:32 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:22:32 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!
To: kattracks
Things continue to look better and better every day in Iraq....
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:28:10 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: kattracks
All the agencies necessary to put Iraq together again are turning tail. Time to declare war on the terrorists in Iraq and show no mercy.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:29:03 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(It's a literary fact that the number of words written will grow exponentially to fill the space avai)
To: kattracks
Damn!!!!!!!
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:29:19 AM PDT
by
Dog
(: "And good ol' boys were drinking whiskey and rye, singing 'This'll be the day Saddam dies...'")
To: Arkie2
Time to declare war on the terrorists in Iraq and show no mercy. You mean our forces haven't done that yet? Or are you one of the "nuke the whole city!" crowd?
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:31:49 AM PDT
by
Coop
(God bless our troops!)
To: kattracks
They say money is the biggest coward there is - it flees disorder. Politicians should take notes.
Money scares easily.
To: Cyber Liberty
The wider realities, aside from narrow jingoisms, are, as much as one may hate the U.N., we cannot bear this burden of Iraq and the growing guerilla and terrorist challenge, much longer alone by ourselves (personnel-wise and financially speaking). If we are isolated in that hell hole, and lose further support (
Japan is delaying its assistance now due to the bombing), we are going to be left pissing in the wind by our lonesome, with probably more and more US boys/girls shot or blown up and troops going into a siege/garrison mode.
Well, to break the news to you gently, and Bush/Rove/Rice know it and are working hard to counter it.....All of this quite necessarily means:
A Democrat in The White House in 2005 Placed There By An Impatient Americn Electorate
To: AmericanInTokyo
Bingo... We have a winner!!!
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:38:50 AM PDT
by
Brian S
To: AmericanInTokyo
If a 'Crap ends up in the White House in '05, it'll be because the party split like it already did in California.
The strivers for perfection will cost us the White House in '05, and the rest of the country will be gone inside of 20 years.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:39:35 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Brian S
I'm with you. I'm moving to the Caymans.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:40:33 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: kattracks
The press is way overdue in its investigation into Saddam's accomplices - those who took Saddam's (OUR) UN "Oil for Food" $$$ and remained silent about Saddam's brutality.
These two groups join Hillary, Chirac, Castro and their international socialist, anti-American, pro-UN peers by criticizing our troops while doing nothing but undermining our efforts. Our troops are DOING what they couldn't - and wouldn't. Just recently they refused to recognize the young Democratic Iraqi Council - though they had no problems doing business with a mass-murderer for years.
Why isn't that a war crime?
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:42:03 AM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("We're ready and willing to get the job done." - Staff Sgt Paul Johnson, nr. UN bldg, Baghdad, 8/19)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Unfortunately, you're right. This isn't particularly good news.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:43:08 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: Brian S
Thank you.
Facts are stubborn things.
I am no fan of the UN.
But I am a fan of a multinational approach to financing and policing the damned place so we can get it ship-shape to get the hell out of there, letting them run it themselves eventually. We are going to get bogged down a one hell of a Nation-Building mess for our US military. We are in a difficult position.
Delivering clear threatening ultimatums to Syria and Iran over their borders as transhipment points for the jihadi starting to stream in to Dodge City for the Big Showdown with Uncle Sam, would be good for starters.
Whether that is in the iron will of the Administration, only the hallway walls in Foggy Bottom could show us, if they could only speak.
To: kattracks
This is great.
The world bank and IMF are the most overrated oncpm[etants on the bureaucratic stage. With them gone, there can be capitalism and progress.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:44:43 AM PDT
by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: Cyber Liberty
faulty parallel
To: AmericanInTokyo
Yeah, I know it. I didn't set out to be precise.
I am not a fan of "doom-and-gloom", which is I was responding to. California Republicans are, however, doomed.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:54:04 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Coop
These terrorists are supported by Iran and Syria. Time to take them out.
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posted on
08/20/2003 11:56:22 AM PDT
by
Arkie2
(It's a literary fact that the number of words written will grow exponentially to fill the space avai)
To: Cyber Liberty
ok
To: Cyber Liberty
If a 'Crap ends up in the White House in '05, it'll be because the party split like it already did in California. The strivers for perfection will cost us the White House in '05 Strivers for perfection? Gee, the GOP is serving up a candidate with nothing more to offer than his celebrity, who brings big-time Dem Warren Buffet on board as a financial advisor, a candidate who is pro-abort, pro-gun control, pro-big government, pro-gay, was against Clinton's impeachment, and whose one foray into politics was to add a half-billion dollar program to an already bloated state govenrment - in other words, he has almost NO fit to the 2000 GOP platform - yet we're somehow strivers for perfection for not accepting it? That's a load of crap...
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posted on
08/20/2003 12:14:53 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Arnold's positions are like the alien in Predator - you can't see them but you know they're lethal)
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