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It appears that removing Saddam was not part of the objective, and maybe it was the prefered approach back then. From Bush Sr: "We should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a...

Dedicated to our Soldiers of Operation Iraqi Freedom http://webpages.charter.net/therealq/Soldiers.html nice collection/background music be safe and hurry home Josh

JEDDAH: In an exclusive interview with Arab News on Tuesday, British Member of Parliament George Galloway said he had evidence that one motive for the war on Iraq is the eventual partition of the Mideast. “Here in the Houses of Parliament there are people who have never set foot in an Arab...

...The document's most politically sensitive information, however, was about Pakistan. Since 1997, the C.I.A. said, Pakistan had been sharing sophisticated technology, warhead-design information, and weapons-testing data with the Pyongyang regime. Pakistan, one of the Bush Administration's...

You could be right... Adam Hamilton March 21, 2003 The recent pullback of gold has been causing much consternation amongst investors. Yet, exciting buy signals for gold are once again approaching The past six weeks or so have been quite challenging for gold and gold-stock investors...

Blaming derivatives for financial losses is akin to blaming cars for drunk driving fatalities. Christopher L. Culp MediaNomics, April, 1995, p. 4 ----------------------- "‘Derivatives.' That's the 11-letter four-letter word. Richard Syron, Chairman, American Stock Exchange...

There are times that we need to step back and reflect... ...The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families...

The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate unchanged at 1-1/4 percent. While incoming economic data since the January meeting have been mixed, recent labor market indicators have proven disappointing. However, the hesitancy of the economic...

Current economy There are only two other months in the last decade when payroll declines exceeded 300K -- both during the recession in Oct and Nov 2001. The key question is whether the Feb 2003 plunge was largely aberration or a true reflection of the underlying economy. Only about half of the...

Like ancient mariners, traders wait for some bit of news to billow their financial sails and send them breezily on to a pleasing destination. Mara Koppel Women of the Pits 1998, p. x ---------------------- The traders spend their day in that eerie, perfect state the rest of us achieve...

"We have 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only 6.3 percent of its population. . . In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will allow us to maintain this position of disparity...

Good post, also similar sentiments with Bungrider, ElCabano, Madison, etc.., I voted No, but apparently two suspects died under torture treatments so far: ....American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under...

Worst credit climate since the depression, says Moody's. Plus: look who's cozying up to analysts. ...We'll slip in the good news first. Turns out that fewer corporate issuers defaulted on rated bonds in 2002, according to Moody's Investors Service's annual study of global defaults and...

....One might assume the 2003 spending increases are largely the result of September 11th and homeland security concerns, but actually it’s the standard types of federal pork that drive the overall spending surge. Virtually all federal agencies and federal programs, including those that have...

It seemed strange to me that a member of the prestigious Chicago Board of Trade could be a smashing success one year and begging for work the next. Mark Ritchie God in the Pits: Confessions of a Commodities Trader, 1990, p. 151 ----------------------- The stock market is like sex. It...

Some more interesting info related to your statement: UnoCal/Chevron/Taliban/Haliburton/pipelines etc... http://www.iraq.net/erica/news-e/archives/00000318.htm Mr. Joseph Clifford contributed above article to Media Monitors Network (MMN) from James Town, Rhode Island, USA Josh

Interesing interview today.. Friedman: Trust markets to weed out corporate wrongdoers Company insiders with knowledge of bad behavior should be encouraged to profit from their information, Milton Friedman said in an interview on CNBC's Power Lunch. 12:00 PM EST March 12, 2003...

Good observation lol.. do you think he was the same who sent the warhead to Alaska? Josh

This is not good, it seems they have a lot to do with us... NK Missile Warhead Found in Alaska By Ryu Jin Staff Reporter The warhead of a long-range missile test-fired by North Korea was found in the U.S. state of Alaska, a report to the National Assembly revealed yesterday...

Saudi envoy in UK linked to 9/11 Riyadh's former intelligence chief has been accused in US court documents of helping to fund al-Qaeda, report Paul Harris and Martin Bright ... ..They accuse him of funding and supporting Osama bin Laden. The Observer can also reveal that Turki has now...