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As I watched the weather reports on the local news this morning I thought how great it
must be to grow up as a kid here...The minute we get even an inch or two of snow the
entire city shuts down and everyone freaks out...When I was a kid in St. Louis it took
at least a foot of snow to close school...
Be that as it may, Caddell, Bossie (he funded the ad) and Prager will leading the show
tonight over Fred Thompson's newest pro-Bush ad which is an antidote to the Hollywood
crowd's anti-war movement...Look for some flame throwing right out of the box...
With Hollywood's anti-war views making headlines in recent weeks, actor and former
Republican Sen. Fred Thompson decided it was time for someone from the other side of
the political spectrum to speak up. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030228/ap_on_en_tv/actor_bush_ad_2
Big Labor is making some Big noise out of Hollywood, FL, slamming Bush, his Labor
Secretary and the war against Iraq...We'll ask AFL-CIO honcho Richard Trumka what the
hullabaloo is all about..
The D will be smoking as well...Pat (Yes, all around cool dude at the office water
cooler Pat Buchanan will be in the House...And I mean it, Pat's the nicest guy around
here, next to Chris of course) and Carl (btw, look for Carl to be more a regular on
Fridays)...You may have heard of that girl in New York who turned her back on the
American flag during the playing of the national anthem
A Vietnam veteran came onto the court Sunday and held an American flag in front of
Manhattanville senior forward Toni Smith after the Division III player again refused
to face the flag during the national anthem. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030224/ap_on_sp_co_ga_su/bkw_player_protest_2
And then we drop some serious gravitas with William F. Buckley, a man who's
intellectual output is so prolific I don't have the space to get into it...We'll do
Iraq, the international coalition and the state of the conservative movement...Dig
it...
Uh oh, look out...Here comes............................Mortman's latest offering:
Capitol notebook...New York Times' Dean of the pack - and other political notes
http://msnbc.com/news/878462.asp
Have a great weekend...Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited the Briefing from
Washington, DC
What do they know? They're actors! That's the pop culture cry emerging this week from
the biggest celebrity anti-war movement since Vietnam. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-02-27-anti-war-cover_x.htm
Buckley: No Smile on His Face...Bush is on a great roll.
http://www.nationalreview.com/buckley/buckley020703.asp
The United States insisted on Friday that if Iraq obeys U.N. orders to destroy its
ballistic missiles, the move will still leave Baghdad far short of U.N. demands and
not stop the march toward a possible war. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3M2ADFCP0PQOOCRBAEOCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=2307299
Invading Iraq not a new idea for Bush clique...4 years before 9/11, plan was set
(Philadelphia Daily News) http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/5025024.htm
Guess who wants to enlist? He is famed for playing the all-action hero in Hollywood
blockbusters such as Die Hard and Armageddon.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/showbiz/articles/3609036?source=Metro
Labor Release on Iraq: Heads of British and American Labor Movements Send Joint Letter
on Iraq to President Bush and Prime Minister Blair
http://www.aflcio.org/mediacenter/prsptm/pr01302003.cfm
Iraq says it will destroy missiles...Iraq is expected to begin destroying its Al
Samoud 2 missiles on Saturday, a key demand of chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix,
sources in Baghdad said Friday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/878474.asp
Russia threatens to veto resolution...The United States suffered a setback Friday when
Russia said it was prepared to veto a war resolution on Iraq "in the interests of
international stability."
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/842500.asp
2 killed in attack on U.S. consulate...Assailants armed with automatic weapons opened
fire on a police post protecting the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, killing two policemen
and injuring at least two others, police said.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/878700.asp
Days before the first President Bush faced a decision on whether to launch a war with
Iraq, he wrote a letter to his five children. The prospect of ordering troops into
combat ''tears at my heart,'' he wrote on Dec. 31, 1990, but a leader must do what he
believes is right ''even if your critics are loud and numerous. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030228/4907679s.htm
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz yesterday repudiated an estimate from the
Army's top general that it will take hundreds of thousands of troops to occupy postwar
Iraq...Mr. Wolfowitz said the estimate in congressional testimony by Gen. Eric
Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, was "wildly off the mark."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030228-31817906.htm
A possible war with Iraq has so many variables that estimating its cost is impossible,
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said after Democrats complained that the White
House was not offering an estimate. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=542&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030228/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_iraq
Poll: Support of war is steady, but many minds not made up 59% endorse sending troops
to oust Saddam (USA Today) http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030228/4907681s.htm
While critics at home and abroad press the Bush administration to scrap any invasion
of Iraq, the Pentagon and Congress are squabbling openly over the price of war -- and
peace when the shooting stops (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2307489
In his speech Wednesday evening on postwar Iraq, President Bush signaled a shift in
the administration's policy on the controversial issue of Israeli settlements,
apparently embracing the Israeli government's view that substantial concessions by the
Palestinians are necessary before Israel must begin to rein in the expansion of
settlements in the occupied territories. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13827-2003Feb27.html
A new animal-rights campaign compares the murder of Jews in Nazi death camps to the
killing of chickens and pigs in slaughterhouses - enraging Jewish groups and Holocaust
survivors. (NY Daily News) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/63306p-59049c.html
Black Democrats at odds with Lieberman...Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's continuing problem
with blacks in his political party threatens to undermine his bid for the Democrat's
presidential nomination. (The Washington Times)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030228-82870376.htm
A possible war with Iraq has so many variables that estimating its cost is impossible,
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said after Democrats complained that the White
House was not offering an estimate. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20030228/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq
Hoping to enhance the role of African-American voters in the 2004 presidential
campaign, the Congressional Black Caucus announced plans Thursday to host four debates
among Democratic candidates before year's end. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030228/4907672s.htm
Washingtonian Buzz: All Work and No Play at the Washington Post?
http://www.washingtonian.com/inwashington/buzz/postnofun.html
Having heard ad nauseam from generals, admirals, policymakers and politicians about
the coming unpleasantness in Iraq, the Sunday panel shows are chasing after a
televised head-butting between former senator and war supporter Fred Thompson, star of
NBC's "Law & Order," and peacenik Martin Sheen, star of NBC's "The West Wing." We hear
that NBC's "Meet the Press" has the inside track on an exclusive debate. (Lloyd Grove)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13948-2003Feb27.html
Opinion/Editorial
Racial divide...Even more depressing than the Senate filibuster over Miguel Estrada's
nomination to a federal judgeship has been watching Hispanic advocacy groups eat each
other alive. By Dahlia Lithwick.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/874230.asp
Lizza's Campaign Journal: State of Peace
http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030310&s=lizza031003
Dan Rather: A Latter-Day Saladin...Saddam is calm--eerily so.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003136
Cliff May: Rather Tame or Rather Tough? You, too, can be media critic and earn big
bucks! http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-may022803.asp
Trudy Rubin: An ally, and a Pandora's box....Mishandling of Turkey could lead to
disaster http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/columnists/trudy_rubin/5262825.htm
Hayworth: Slander! Antiwar arguments are unfair to the president.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-hayworth022803.asp
Heninger: Opinion Overload...The Iraq debate proves politics remains the same.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110003137
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