If this is true, hot damn

[Marvin Gandall]

If this is true, it is because the US wants a ceasefire to buy time until it
can deploy the troops currently en route from the aborted Turkish front.
It's stretched too thin right now because of the strength of the Iraqi
resistance. The Iraqis might see a ceasefire as opening the door for UN
mediation, because they know they can't win in the long run. But hot damn is
a little premature, and this is still only a rumour.

----- Original Message -----
From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: If this is true, hot damn


> A US delegation arrived in Amman in its way to Baghdad for ceasefire
> negotiations
>
http://www.aljazeerah.info/26%20news/US%20delegation%20arrived%20in%20Amman%
>
20in%20its%20way%20to%20Baghdad%20for%20ceasefire%20negotiations%20%20aljaze
> erah.info.htm
>
> Abu Dhabi, Alittihad Daily, 3/26/2003 -- The UAE leading semi-official
daily
> newspaper, Alittihad, reported today that a US government delegation has
> arrived in Amman, Jordan, yesterday in its way to Baghdad for negotiations
> with the Iraqi government about an immediate ceasefire.
>
> A diplomatic source told Alittihad that the US government delegation
> included four leading members of Congress as well as the daughter of the
US
> Vice President, Dick Cheney, representing the US Department of State,
where
> she works as an Assistant to the Deputy of the Secretary of State for
Middle
> Eastern Affairs.