BEST BUSH PHOTO OP SINCE THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER!

Are Saddam's forces now in Vermont?????
Get THIS one!!! YIKES!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2642368,00.html

Pentagon dominates US foreign policy with dubious intelligence

http://www.spacewar.com/2003/030504185707.eazyi7tf.html

FIRM INVOLVED IN BUSH'S FLORIDA THEFT GETS MILLIONS FROM BUSH

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,949696,00.html

Layoffs Grew 71 Percent in April

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20030505/bs_nm/economy_usa_jobs_challenger_dc

A VIRTUAL PANDORA'S BOX

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/inside/la-war-rebuild5may05,1,1251302.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

U.S. Struggles in Quicksand of Iraq

Continuing disorder is fueling skepticism and allowing competing
political forces to fill the void.

By Alissa J. Rubin, Times Staff Writer
BAGHDAD --

Nearly a month after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces, the reconstruction
effort is struggling to gain visibility and credibility, crime is a
continuing problem, Iraqis desperate for jobs and security are
becoming angry and the transition to democracy promised by President
Bush seems rife with risk.
The continuing disorder in a country accustomed to the repressive but
absolute stability provided by Saddam Hussein is fueling at least a
deep skepticism about U.S. intentions and at worst a dangerous
anti-Americanism.
As competing religious, tribal and territorial political forces move
to fill the void, they threaten to divide the country rather than
unite it.
Interviews with political analysts, exile figures and ordinary Iraqis
throughout the country, coupled with developments on the ground,
indicate that the United States' power to control Iraq and shape its
future is increasingly threatened by the pervasive uncertainty.
On many fronts, U.S. officials appear to have been unprepared for what
awaited them in Iraq, from mundane concerns such as how to cope with
the lack of telephones to philosophical questions such as how to
respond to the desire of many Iraqis for an Islamic state.
"The Americans and the British became obsessed with getting rid of
Saddam; they thought he was responsible for all the catastrophes in
Iraq," said Wamid Nadmi, a political science professor at Baghdad
University.
"But they have opened a Pandora's box."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-newsbrief,0,4876546.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines

"WHAR'S THE BOOM????"

"War's Quick End Produces No Economic Boom "
WASHINGTON (AP) --

The hope had been that a fast and successful war in Iraq would set off
an economic boom that would quickly translate into falling
unemployment for American households and fatter order books for U.S.
businesses.
But so far, the boom has been a bust. U.S. tanks rolled into Baghdad
in the second week of April, but the military victory did not stem a
wave of new job layoffs in the United States.

GEORGE W. CHRIST

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050503A.shtml