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THANKSYOU, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH!!!
"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... I have a woman who has a boat. Or she has me. Either way I'm ahead of you! So what? I have a brother who has a Cattle Ranch. Does that mean I'm a cattle rancher? I don't know. Do you work on the ranch? If you do then the answer is YES. Wrong! If I worked on the cattle ranch I'd be a ranch hand not a rancher. In the same way, when you're on Suzanne's boat you're a deck hand or rail meat at best on somebody else's boat - not a sailor. S.Simon - sails a boat he owns |
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THANKSYOU, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH!!!
"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... I have a woman who has a boat. Or she has me. Either way I'm ahead of you! So what? I have a brother who has a Cattle Ranch. Does that mean I'm a cattle rancher? I don't know. Do you work on the ranch? If you do then the answer is YES. Wrong! If I worked on the cattle ranch I'd be a ranch hand not a rancher. In the same way, when you're on Suzanne's boat you're a deck hand or rail meat at best on somebody else's boat - not a sailor. S.Simon - sails a boat he owns |
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THANKSYOU, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH!!!
"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... I have a woman who has a boat. Or she has me. Either way I'm ahead of you! So what? I have a brother who has a Cattle Ranch. Does that mean I'm a cattle rancher? I don't know. Do you work on the ranch? If you do then the answer is YES. Wrong! If I worked on the cattle ranch I'd be a ranch hand not a rancher. In the same way, when you're on Suzanne's boat you're a deck hand or rail meat at best on somebody else's boat - not a sailor. S.Simon - sails a boat he owns |
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THANKYOU, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH!!!
"Bobsprit" wrote in message ... It just means I'm more of a man than you! To me it sounds like you're more of a wimp hiding behind a woman's skirt. Bwahahahahahaahhahahahh S.Simon - Booby's nemesis |
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THANKS, BUSH!!!
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Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 09:59:39 -0400, DSK wrote: [snip] ....If the UN takes over, militarily, those corrupt paperpushers will be there forever--like homeless inlaws..... 'Nuff said. And you have the gall to call anybody else a lunatic. Bye bye DSK ....based on recent history. - -------------------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/18/opinion/18ROSE.html Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions By CLAUDIA ROSETT New York Times, April 18, 2003 excerpt: - -------------------------- The oil-for-food program is no ordinary relief effort. Not only does it involve astronomical amounts of money, it also operates with alarming secrecy. Intended to ease the human cost of economic sanctions by letting Iraq sell oil and use the profits for staples like milk and medicine, the program has morphed into big business. Since its inception, the program has overseen more than $100 billion in contracts for oil exports and relief imports combined. It also collects a 2.2 percent commission on every barrel - more than $1 billion to date - that is supposed to cover its administrative costs. According to staff members, the program's bank accounts over the past year have held balances upward of $12 billion. With all that money pouring straight from Iraq's oil taps - - thus obviating the need to wring donations from member countries - - the oil-for-food program has evolved into a bonanza of jobs and commercial clout. Before the war it employed some 1,000 international workers and 3,000 Iraqis. (The Iraqi employees - charged with monitoring Saddam Hussein's imports and distribution of relief goods - of course all had to be approved by the Baath Party.) [snip] The quantities of goods involved in shipments are confidential, and almost all descriptions on the contract lists made public by the United Nations are so generic as to be meaningless. For example, a deal with Russia approved last Nov. 19 was described on the contract papers with the enigmatic notation: "goods for resumption of project." Who are the Russian suppliers? The United Nations won't say. What were they promised in payment? That's secret. [snip] Mr. Annan's office does share more detailed records with the Security Council members, but none of those countries makes them public. There is no independent, external audit of the program; financial oversight goes to officials from a revolving trio of member states - currently South Africa, the Philippines and, yes, France. As for the program's vast bank accounts, the public is told only that letters of credit are issued by a French bank, BNP Paribas. Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq, entitled to goods funded by 13 percent of the program's revenues, have been trying for some time to find out how much interest they are going to receive on $4 billion in relief they are still owed. The United Nations treasurer told me that that no outside party, not even the Kurds, gets access to those figures. Then there is the program's compensation commission, which is supposed to dole out 25 percent of all oil-for-food proceeds to people and companies harmed by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It has so far dispensed $17.5 billion and approved a further $26.2 billion. Who decides on compensation claims? Commission members are picked from a "register of experts" supplied by Mr. Annan. One staff member told me that that this register cannot be released because it is "not public." The identities of the individual claimants are, of course, "confidential." - -------------------------- tw -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/YniS0IEDbd7J/jkRAo67AJ9pMDvoEzDjzpLaSo7sWFyy5W+qagCfTcpk 1DXh3FqNb8Bpo45etvEGPCY= =wJyw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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THANKS, BUSH!!!
"The Captains Nemesis" wrote in message Hey, I've got a better solution. Invade the place, kick out the existing Govt and put your own in. Then ask your taxpayers to fund the whole mess.....You mean it's been done....Oh sorry. Asking the taxpayers to fund the results of the F*&k up is not likely to be a vote winner in America. It's easier to ask the rest of the planet to fund the (Bush) situation in Iraq. Regards Donal -- |
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