:: Has the whole world gone mad or is it just me. ::

:: Friday, April 18, 2003 ::

They cant find Osama or Saddam. What a joke these Bushies are.

Yahoo! News - Arab TV Shows New Footage Said to Be Saddam Arab TV Shows New Footage Said to Be Saddam
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By Jeremy Laurence

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab network Abu Dhabi TV broadcast video footage on Friday of what it said was Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) saluting a throng of chanting supporters in Baghdad on April 9, the day the capital fell to U.S. forces.


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Salon.com | Joe Conason's Journal
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Joe Conason's Journal
We invaded Iraq to seize weapons of mass destruction, but a U.S. Army inspector suggests that the U.S should lower its expectations.

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April 16, 2003 |

Scooby Doo's non-smoking gun
Don't miss Jake Tapper's excellent review of the elusive evidence (and overwrought media coverage) of Saddam's nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry. Of course, our government has a perfectly good explanation, assuming that no such items are found in Iraq: The stuff is hidden in Syria now. Yeah, that's the ticket!
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Yahoo! News - HOW WE LOST THE IRAQ WAR HOW WE LOST THE IRAQ WAR
Tue Apr 15,10:02 PM ET

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By Ted Rall

After Saddam, the Deluge


NEW YORK--We wanted it to be true. It wasn't.


Anyone who has seen a TV taping knows that tight camera angles exaggerate crowd sizes, but even a cursory examination of last week's statue-toppling propaganda tape reveals that no more than 150 Iraqis gathered in Farbus Square to watch American Marines--not Iraqis--pull down the dictator's statue. Hailing "all the demonstrations in the streets," Defense Secretary Rumsfeld waxed rhapsodically: "Watching them," he told reporters, "one cannot help but think of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Iron Curtain."


Hundreds of thousands of cheering Berliners filled the streets when their divided city was reunited in 1989. Close to a million Yugoslavs crowded Belgrade at the end of Slobodan Milosevic (news - web sites)'s rule in 2000. While some individual Iraqis have welcomed U.S. troops, there haven't been similar outpourings of approval for our "liberation." Most of the crowds are too busy carrying off Uday's sofas to say thanks, and law-abiding citizens are at home putting out fires or fending off their rapacious neighbors with AK-47s. Yet Americans wanted to see their troops greeted as liberators, so that's what they saw on TV. Perhaps Francis Fukuyama was correct--if it only takes 150 happy looters to make history, maybe history is over.
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Treasurys snap losing streak on data Empire State manufacturing ugly; national output down By Rachel Koning, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:28 PM ET April 15, 2003 WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) - Weak manufacturing data were behind an about-face higher for the Treasury market Tuesday, snapping a string of three straight losing sessions. Yields fell. Safe-haven Treasurys had suffered two straight weekly declines as the war in Iraq drew to a relatively quick close [read the latest] and mixed economic data left many scratching their heads over the odds for another Fed interest rate cut. The odds for a Fed cut at the May 6 meeting fell to about 20 percent this week from 50/50 last week. A formerly obscure regional report, the New York Fed's Empire State manufacturing survey has gained more and more recognition as a timely snapshot of the factory sector, similar to the attention given to the Philadelphia Fed's report. April's results - issued Tuesday - showed a very sick factory sector in that region. The Empire State manufacturing survey dropped to negative 20.4 in April from negative 2.8 in March, the lowest level since October 2001. Readings under zero indicate that a majority of firms surveyed reported that business is worsening or getting no better. Separately, output at the nation's factories, mines and utilities declined 0.5 percent last month, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday, in part on a hefty 4.1 percent drop at utilities as weather conditions returned to normal. Capacity use fell to 74.8 percent from 75.3 percent in February, the lowest since in nearly 20 years. Economists were expecting a 0.2 percent drop in industrial production and a 75.3 percent capacity use rate. Read more on the latest releases. Checking prices in recent action, a benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 13/32 at 99 9/32. Its yield ($TNX: news, chart, profile) fell to 3.96 percent from 4.02 percent late Monday. A 30-year bond added 26/32 to 106 21/32, yielding ($TYX: news, chart, profile) 4.93 percent. A 2-year note yield fell to 1.67 percent and a 5-year note yield fell to 2.91 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU: news, chart, profile) rose 11o 8,362, above its starting point of 8,341 for the year. The Nasdaq ($COMPQ: news, chart, profile) added 2 to 1,387. The S&P 500 ($SPX: news, chart, profile) rose 2 to 887. See Market Snapshot. Crude futures closed above $29 a barrel Tuesday for the first time in two weeks. Traders expect OPEC to cut back its production levels when it meets on April 24. June crude closed at $29.29 a barrel, up 66 cents. See Futures Movers. Elsewhere on the economic front, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi chain-store sales index rose a relatively robust 1.3 percent last week, but it wasn't nearly enough to offset the 1.9 percent drop in sales over the two weeks before that.
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Yahoo! News - Protests Greet U.S. Talks on Future with Iraqis Protests Greet U.S. Talks on Future with Iraqis
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By Adrian Croft

TALLIL AIRBASE, Iraq (Reuters) - The United States launches talks with divided and distrustful Iraqis on Tuesday on how to rule the country now that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has gone, but anti-U.S. protests erupted even before they began.


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