> From: John D. Giorgis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > At 03:32 PM 2/23/2003 -0600 The Fool wrote: > >http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/opinion/21KRUG.html > > > >The Martial Plan > >By PAUL KRUGMAN > > Ahhh..... the search for intelligent life in Paul Krugman's columns continues. > > Just for the record: > > The US always has been and continues to be the single largest donor of aid > to Afghanistan. > > Relief aid to New York City has been provided as fast as the money can be > spent (ie the money not yet provided to NYC is emarked for projects, like > rebuilding the WTC, that haven't fully begun yet.) > > The allegation regarding permitting Turkish occuption of Northern Iraq is > pure rumour and innuendo. For one thing, the Turks already have a > presence in Northern Iraq. For two, many published reports in places > like the Washington Post completely contradict that assertion.
" As the Bush administration struggles to induce Turkey to support a war with Iraq, our Kurdish allies in northern Iraq are realizing that once again America is about to double-cross them. Zalmay Khalilzad, President Bush's special envoy to the Iraqi opposition, went to Ankara this month and told top Kurdish leaders to accept a large deployment of Turkish troops � supposedly for humanitarian relief � to enter northern Iraq after any American invasion. He also told the Kurds that they would have to give up plans for self-government, adding that hundreds of thousands of people driven from their homes by Saddam Hussein would not be able to return to them. " http://archive.nytimes.com/2003/02/19/opinion/19GALB.html > According to the Washington Post, the US plans to install Americans to at > least the Top Three levels of governance and conduct war crimes trials of > top Iraqi officials. The US will then convene a representative council > of all Iraqis to develop a replacement government. The allegations > presented by Krugman are mind-numbingly passed on without considering the > source - a group of people who want to run Iraq after the war - and are > again, pure rumour and innuendo. " Criteria by which officials would be designated as too tainted to keep their jobs are still being worked on, although they would likely be based more on complicity with the human rights and weapons abuses of the Hussein government than corruption, officials said. A large number of current officials would be retained... " http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37949-2003Feb20.html > > At this point I will stop shooting the fish in the barrel. > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
