Greg Palast: UNREPORTED: THE ZARQAWI INVITATION

[Wetzelbill]

UNREPORTED: THE ZARQAWI INVITATION

by Greg Palast


http://www.opednews.com

They got him -- the big, bad, beheading berserker in Iraq. But, something's gone unreported in all the glee over getting Zarqawi … who invited him into Iraq in the first place?

If you prefer your fairy tales unsoiled by facts, read no further. If you want the uncomfortable truth, begin with this: A phone call to Baghdad to Saddam's Palace on the night of April 21, 2003. It was Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on a secure line from Washington to General Jay Garner.

The General had arrives in Baghdad just hours before to take charge of the newly occupied nation. The message from Rumsfeld was not a heartwarming welcome. Rummy told Garner, Don't unpack, Jack -- you're fired.

What had Garner done? The many-starred general had been sent by the President himself to take charge of a deeply dangerous mission. Iraq was tense but relatively peaceful. Garner's job was to keep the peace and bring democracy.

Unfortunately for the general, he took the President at his word. But the general was wrong. "Peace" and "Democracy" were the slogans.

"My preference," Garner told me in his understated manner, "was to put the Iraqis in charge as soon as we can and do it in some form of elections."


But elections were not in The Plan.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_greg_pal_060609_unreported_3a_the_zarq.htm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. Wetzelbill, this needs to be read by every DUer.

And then, it needs to be spread far and wide throughout the country.

Thanks for finding and posting this.

[Wetzelbill]

4. thanks

yeah, Palast is an amazing investigative reporter. He's a truth-digging and telling machine. :)

[acmejack]

2. Well now, I guess I would be in the streets too!

Insurgents, my butt. I have one question only-Why are our children dying for this shit? Why?

I have a tremendous issue with our kids dying for the further enrichment of a group of obscenely wealthy white men. No More!

[PA Democrat]

3. Great article. It's frustrating that the MSM hasn't looked into

the details of just how badly the Bush administration screwed up in their rush to carve up the resources of Iraq for their greedy campaign contributors. I'd bet that 95% of the American public has no clue of all the dirty dealing that has gone on in Iraq.

[cantstandbush]

21. And most of THEM don't want to know the truth. n/t

[Supersedeas]

36. the Advertisers & Marketeers don't want that kind of sober reporting

[bunny planet]

5. K and R

[WePurrsevere]

6. Too bad most Americans will probably never read the truth... K&R... n/t

[Wetzelbill]

7. oh no doubt, or even see it on TV

:)

I did email this to Keith Olbermann though. I guess it is worth a shot in the dark. :)

[WePurrsevere]

9. Good! I hope he covers it... the more that do the better. n/t

[Wetzelbill]

12. here is KO's email

[e-mail]

[WePurrsevere]

77. Thank you... I'll email him in a bit and suggest it as well. n/t

[LaurenG]

8. Poor Garner

It sounds like an excellent fictional movie, I am very sad that it's true.

[Minnesota_Lib]

10. I would love to see that 101 page document.

[Wetzelbill]

13. I bet that is juicy

it'd make my blood boil I'm sure. :)

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

72. It's got to be available somewhere

Like the DSM, there's got to be a copy of this document stuck in someone's files. It needs to be found and published far and wide. If there's one thing evil fears, it's light.

[Junkdrawer]

11. An American Plan to bring Democracy to the Middle East...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159&q=newman%27s

[nolabels]

29. What do they do with the petri dish when it's done?

Very freaking nice

[Nabia2004]

14. Great article,. a must read - nt

[Wetzelbill]

15. Email this to Keith at: [e-mail]

It's worth a shot. He's about the only guy who would even mention it.

[mod mom]

16. I would love to see Palast on TDS or Colbert Report. Not only is he a

great investigator but he is so witty as well.

[Wetzelbill]

17. very witty

his writing is so full of information, just packed with it, yet he'll bust out something hilarious along with the facts too. He's great. :)

[joeunderdog]

55. And scarier than Stephen King.

King writes fiction. I can barely sleep if I read Palast before I go to bed.

[Why Syzygy]

18. Very interesting.

The truth. How refreshing.

[Rhiannon12866]

19. This was amazing, but Greg Palast is the best. K&R.

I received this via e-mail, this am, and this was the first thing I read and I passed it on. Excellent and enlightening read. Thanks for posting it!:wow:

Rhiannon:hi:

[Wetzelbill]

20. yes, i got the email too

It wasn't even up on Greg's website yet, but I happened to run across it posted at OpEdNews.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Great job that you posted it early since what he has to say is a must-read

for all of us. He always has the real facts and the courage to present them. I just regret that he doesn't have a national forum in this country, but we all know the reasons. What he has to say should be heard by everyone.:-(

A few years ago, he was scheduled to make a rare TV appearance, on "Hardball," I think. I alerted everyone I could think of to tune in, but that was the day the Kobe Bryant story broke and regular programming was preempted for the rest of the evening, to bring us the latest on this story of such great national importance!:grr:

[Why Syzygy]

44. He is going to be

in Austin, Texas on June 18th.

[Rhiannon12866]

79. You should post this in the Texas forum,

so DUers in the Austin area can get a chance to see him. I'm in NY, or I'd certainly be there. I'd love to hear him speak, in person...:-)

[mistertrickster]

22. Yup, this pretty much backs up everything I've read so far. But lots

of good new details.

It was perfectly obvious that BushCo. didn't want elections until after they had control.

Sandy Berger said it so well: you can have control or you can have democracy, but you can't have both.

[Wetzelbill]

24. he's mentioned the Garner stuff several times before

but he also ties up some other things in here too. It only further cements what is basically known about Bremer, Iraq etc.

[havocmom]

25. Yep, the neocons & junta are Robber Barons

and the whole world is their target.

K & R For this VERY IMPORTANT bit of truth telling

[Wetzelbill]

28. oh yeah

Rock n' Roll! :)

Good Morning! :)

[307 MMS]

35. Bergers

Robber barons....as in Bildebergers? You betcha. I'll bet most folks have NO idea who the Bildebergers are and that our gov't is one of their tools.

[file83]

40. Welcome to the DU!!

:hi:

And I'm wanted to make sure you've read this latest report concerning the Bildeberger meeting in Canada: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2329525

[havocmom]

49. Well, you'll be fun to follow and read around here!

Welcome to DU. :toast: We will be stronger for your presence.

[mistertrickster]

26. Right, I in no way meant that as any kind of criticism. This is one of

the best posts I've read in months. It's valuable evidence along with everything else that the invasion was for enriching the rich and had nothing to do with "democracy" or "terror."

[Wetzelbill]

27. oh no, I didn't take it like that

I was simply reiterating what you said because I was agreeing with you. :)

[mistertrickster]

52. 10-4, good buddy nt

[Gregorian]

30. presidential executive order 13303

Why are we so few in number who have expected this was the case from the very beginning? (God damned Fienstein, et al.)

Why are Americans not burning effigees of Cheney in the streets?

I would bet good money that many of the IEDs and pipeline explosions are done by OUR GUYS. Our CIA guys. "See those pesky Iraqis just can't handle freedom®.

And finally...LIHOP. Absolutely no doubt.

[snappyturtle]

31. Tremendous! K&R

As usual, in great Palast style......I agree with another poster above that we, some of us, figured this out in the beginning. Good time for the return of some of the great political cartoons of 2003 inferring war for oil. I'm plain depressed.....there's so much "wrong" right now that I don't know what to write to congressmen about. I think Cheney ought to be admitted to Abu Gharib (sp?) to see what he knows about the privatization of Iraqi oil. No wonder they hate us so.

[eleny]

32. I just received the newsletter from Palast a few minutes ago

We can take off our tinfoil hats now, can't we?

[myrna minx]

33. Wow. Just wow. n/t

:cry:

[jsamuel]

34. yet at the time, anyone who said we were in Iraq for oil was looked at lik

e a conspiracy theorist...

even though it was the easiest and most likely explanation for our presence in Iraq...

[bigtree]

37. Bremer oversaw most of the theft of Iraq's resources

and the wash of U.S. cash that vanished in to the Iraqi shitstorm.

And like Greg Palast says, they set the economy up for grabs by foreigners, the U.S., of course at the head.

The 'Future of Iraq' program, conceived and directed by then deputy to Rice, Hadley, was the WH lever to lift the loot.

The Future of Iraq Project established a development fund that was to be used to meet ‘humanitarian needs', for reconstruction and repair of Iraq's infrastructure. Specific requirements of the Future of Iraq program included:

-Receiving proceeds of all export sales of petroleum and natural gas from Iraq, along with remaining UN funds designated for Iraq, and frozen assets that had belonged to the Government of Iraq or designated senior officials, including Saddam Hussein;

-Disbursing money, at the direction of the Coalition; rebuilding the economy and infrastructure; continue disarmament; civilian administration; and for other 'purposes' that benefit the people of Iraq.

It is impossible to imagine that Bush would expect or tolerate any foreign business interest succeeding ahead of the U.S. corporations which they have so aggressively promoted to secure the ownership of the majority of Iraq's wealth.

Before the war, Stephen Hadley spoke to the Council on Foreign Relations in February 2003 about the Future of Iraq project.

"If war comes," Hadley said, "it will be a war of liberation, not occupation. The United States needs the support of Iraq's people and it will work to win that support. A critical part of the Iraq reconstruction effort will be ensuring that Iraq's oil sector is protected from acts of sabotage by Saddam Hussein's regime," Hadley continued, "and that its proceeds are applied for the benefit of the Iraqi people."

"Iraq's oil and other natural resources belong to all the Iraqi people, and the United States will respect this fact," Hadley said. But, White House Executive Order, 13303, was a bald contradiction of that assertion by this administration that the Iraqi people were to benefit from our seizure of their resources.

Executive Order 13303 decreed that 'any attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void', with respect to the Development Fund for Iraq and "all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein." (The Development Fund, derived from actual and expected Iraqi oil and gas sales, apparently will be used to leverage U.S. government-backed loans, credit, and direct financing for U.S. corporate reconstruction operations in Iraq.)

In other words, all of the oil, resources and industry are the property of the U.S.; to trade, sell, and disperse at its discretion. The only ones who will benefit from the robbery of the Iraqi oil are the companies that we will allow to exploit it. The oil mongers will incestuously share the stolen profits at the expense of lives in the middle.

[eleny]

38. Kick

[file83]

39. I know this is tooting my own horn, but after yesterday's battle...

I feel I earned the right to honk.

What Greg Palast said at the end is EXACTLY what I was saying yesterday when many DU'rs were having a wargasm over Al-Zarqawi's death.

Palast said:

"Bring 'em on," our Commander-in-Chief said. And Zarqawi answered the call.

Yesterday, I said:

So the United States essentially invited Al-Zarqawi to Iraq to fight a war. Bush even went so far as to urge our enemies with the words "Bring 'em on!"

Well, Al-Zarqawi brought it, as have many others.

More...

[Swamp Rat]

41. kick and recommended n/t

[cliss]

42. Here's more -

1) The war in Iraq was driven by much more than oil. There was the need to get US troops out of Saudi Arabia (it was a huge Al Qaida recruiting tool and threatening civil war). The US needed to establish its 14 bases in Iraq to monitor the Middle East. (He who controls the oil = rules the world). The plan wasn't necessarily to start pumping Iraqi oil.

2) Iraq was opened up to all sorts of commercial interests. Of course, there was the military-industrial complex (Bell, Northrup Grumman, Boeing, General Electric, many here. Next, you have the ancillary services like Marriott-Sodexho which delivered meals, Halliburton, KBR which subcontracted up the Kazoo for services, many suppliers here. Many billions in corporate profits.

3) Not to forget: the military-for-hire: the mercenaries. You have Blackwater, Titan, CACI which was in charge of the interrogations at Abu Ghraib. In Falloujah, they actually fought alongside US troops with their own helicopters, their own tanks. They've made billions.

4) Moving down the food chain...we also have corporations like Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, Kinko's, Hilton who wanted to start building once the dust settled. These companies paid for contracts to start building on Saddam Street & Al Sadr Boulevard....but this part never happened. I've read they were very upset because they were told the war would only last a short time, and then cha-ching! Time for serving those hot pizzas. I read that 100% of that country was sold out to foreign interests. Not ONE piece of that country was left to the Iraqis themselves. They carved up Iraq like a side of beef hanging in a butcher shop.

5) The Iraqis got their elections. Around 2003, the US discovered that Iraq was not going to give in to the Occupiers. They didn't know what to do at that point. Al Sistani, in fact, was the one who pushed for a national referendum. The US was basically crawling on its hands & knees, and was desperate.

[eleny]

43. Kicking for the afternoon crowd

:kick:

[Kurovski]

45. K&R. Thanks, WB!

:hi: Now placed in my home bookmarks.

[Gabi Hayes]

46. didn't Naomi Klein write extensively about this a few years ago?

I didn't read the Palast article, btw....too lazy

going to see him in Chicago on Sunday

Barbara's Books
South Halstead

saw him at Northwestern three years ago, courtesy of This Is Hell, on which he'll be a guest tomorrow morning:

http://www.thisishell.com

[Gabi Hayes]

47. see?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030428/klein

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

It was only after I had been in Baghdad for a month that I found what I was looking for. I had traveled to Iraq a year after the war began, at the height of what should have been a construction boom, but after weeks of searching I had not seen a single piece of heavy machinery apart from tanks and humvees. Then I saw it: a construction crane. It was big and yellow and impressive, and when I caught a glimpse of it around a corner in a busy shopping district I thought that I was finally about to witness some of the reconstruction I had heard so much about. But as I got closer I noticed that the crane was not actually rebuilding anything—not one of the bombed-out government buildings that still lay in rubble all over the city, nor one of the many power lines that remained in twisted heaps even as the heat of summer was starting to bear down. No, the crane was hoisting a giant billboard to the top of a three-story building. SUNBULAH: HONEY 100% NATURAL, made in Saudi Arabia.

Seeing the sign, I couldn’t help but think about something Senator John McCain had said back in October. Iraq, he said, is “a huge pot of honey that’s attracting a lot of flies.” The flies McCain was referring to were the Halliburtons and Bechtels, as well as the venture capitalists who flocked to Iraq in the path cleared by Bradley Fighting Vehicles and laser-guided bombs. The honey that drew them was not just no-bid contracts and Iraq’s famed oil wealth but the myriad investment opportunities offered by a country that had just been cracked wide open after decades of being sealed off, first by the nationalist economic policies of Saddam Hussein, then by asphyxiating United Nations sanctions. Looking at the honey billboard, I was also reminded of the most common explanation for what has gone wrong in Iraq, a complaint echoed by everyone from John Kerry to Pat Buchanan: Iraq is mired in blood and deprivation because George W. Bush didn’t have “a postwar plan.” The only problem with this theory is that it isn’t true. The Bush Administration did have a plan for what it would do after the war; put simply, it was to lay out as much honey as possible, then sit back and wait for the flies.

The honey theory of Iraqi reconstruction stems from the most cherished belief of the war’s ideological architects: that greed is good. Not good just for them and their friends but good for humanity, and certainly good for Iraqis. Greed creates profit, which creates growth, which creates jobs and products and services and everything else anyone could possibly need or want. The role of good government, then, is to create the optimal conditions for corporations to pursue their bottomless greed, so that they in turn can meet the needs of the society. The problem is that governments, even neoconservative governments, rarely get the chance to prove their sacred theory right: despite their enormous ideological advances, even George Bush’s Republicans are, in their own minds, perennially sabotaged by meddling Democrats, intractable unions, and alarmist environmentalists.

..............

The fact that the boom never came and Iraq continues to tremble under explosions of a very different sort should never be blamed on the absence of a plan. Rather, the blame rests with the plan itself, and the extraordinarily violent ideology upon which it is based.

[eleny]

48. I'm too lazy to read this - I'll take your word!

:rofl: Just being a silly. :silly:

[Gabi Hayes]

50. reading stuff is work! HARD work!

that's why the ''president'' has people do it for him

[glitch]

66. Naomi Klein is one to the must read journalists. Thanks for the reminder.

Nice summation too.

[mom cat]

51. Palast nailed this one cold!

[Jigarotta]

53. Palast is 'the shit'. Now there's a journalist. nt

[Name removed]

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[Judi Lynn]

56. Damned sad there has been nothing done about these clowns.

They're holding us all hostage. Deepest regrets for the innocent people of Iraq. They did nothing to deserve this.

I hope they can figure out some way to get back their country, and their country's oil out of the hands of _Bush confederates.

Thank you, wetzelbill.

[robbedvoter]

57. "We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here"

This retarded slogan was really a confession: we'll make Iraq into a hotbed of terrorism, so none of you can bitch about "no 9/11 connection" or "distraction from the war on terra" (Iraq was deemed "the Centerpiece" remember?). Talk about manufacturing reality!

[Divine Discontent]

58. RIGHT ON!!! love Palast! June 24th he's in TAMPA www.wmnf.org

this needs to be read by everyone, I agree...

I sent it to my entire inbox except for save a few, and that's a lot of people



www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <<<--- Check it out!

[LibertyorDeath]

59. Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia

Baghdad Year Zero
Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia

L. Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. occupation of Iraq from May 2, 2003, until he caught an early flight out of Baghdad on June 28, admits that when he arrived, “Baghdad was on fire, literally, as I drove in from the airport.” But before the fires from the “shock and awe” military onslaught were even extinguished, Bremer unleashed his shock therapy, pushing through more wrenching changes in one sweltering summer than the International Monetary Fund has managed to enact over three decades in Latin America. Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate and former chief economist at the World Bank, describes Bremer’s reforms as “an even more radical form of shock therapy than pursued in the former Soviet world.”

The tone of Bremer’s tenure was set with his first major act on the job: he fired 500,000 state workers, most of them soldiers, but also doctors, nurses, teachers, publishers, and printers. Next, he flung open the country’s borders to absolutely unrestricted imports: no tariffs, no duties, no inspections, no taxes. Iraq, Bremer declared two weeks after he arrived, was “open for business.”

One month later, Bremer unveiled the centerpiece of his reforms. Before the invasion, Iraq’s non-oil-related economy had been dominated by 200 state-owned companies, which produced everything from cement to paper to washing machines. In June, Bremer flew to an economic summit in Jordan and announced that these firms would be privatized immediately. “Getting inefficient state enterprises into private hands,” he said, “is essential for Iraq’s economic recovery.” It would be the largest state liquidation sale since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

But Bremer’s economic engineering had only just begun. In September, to entice foreign investors to come to Iraq, he enacted a radical set of laws unprecedented in their generosity to multinational corporations. There was Order 37, which lowered Iraq’s corporate tax rate from roughly 40 percent to a flat 15 percent. There was Order 39, which allowed foreign companies to own 100 percent of Iraqi assets outside of the natural-resource sector. Even better, investors could take 100 percent of the profits they made in Iraq out of the country; they would not be required to reinvest and they would not be taxed. Under Order 39, they could sign leases and contracts that would last for forty years. Order 40 welcomed foreign banks to Iraq under the same favorable terms. All that remained of Saddam Hussein’s economic policies was a law restricting trade unions and collective bargaining.

If these policies sound familiar, it’s because they are the same ones multinationals around the world lobby for from national governments and in international trade agreements. But while these reforms are only ever enacted in part, or in fits and starts, Bremer delivered them all, all at once. Overnight, Iraq went from being the most isolated country in the world to being, on paper, its widest-open market.

More
http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

[Wetzelbill]

60. good lord, this is by far my record for most votes

:)

[leftchick]

61. this is just stunning...

:grr:

<snip>

But that's just the fight the neo-cons at Defense wanted. And in Rumsfeld's replacement for Garner, they had a man itching for the fight. Paul Bremer III had no experience on the ground in Iraq, but he had one unbeatable credential that Garner lacked: Bremer had served as Managing Director of Kissinger and Associates.

In April 2003, Bremer instituted democracy Bush style: he canceled elections and appointed the entire government himself. Two months later, Bremer ordered a halt to all municipal elections including the crucial vote to Shia seeking to select a mayor in the city of Najaf. The front-runner, moderate Shia Asad Sultan Abu Gilal warned, "If they don't give us freedom, what will we do? We have patience, but not for long." Local Shias formed the "Mahdi Army," and within a year, provoked by Bremer's shutting their paper, attacked and killed 21 U.S. soldiers.

The insurgency had begun. But Bremer's job was hardly over. There were Sunnis to go after. He issued "Order Number One: De-Ba'athification." In effect, this became "De-Sunni-fication."

Saddam's generals, mostly Sunnis, who had, we learned, secretly collaborated with the US invasion and now expected their reward found themselves hunted and arrested. Falah Aljibury, an Iraqi-born US resident who helped with the pre-invasion brokering, told me, "U.S. forces imprisoned all those we named as political leaders," who stopped Iraq's army from firing on U.S. troops.

[Cha]

62. It's no wonder

they want the Invaders out of their country!

I'm curious if Garner still votes for neocon snakes?

[mirandapriestly]

63. I felt something in common with Aljibury

after reading this quote:
"... You're losing all of your resources to a bunch of wealthy people. A bunch of billionaires in the world want to take you over and make your life miserable"

That article really described what some of the more perceptive among of have suspected was happening in Iraq. It makes me sick.

[eridani]

64. Overall Garner's plans for immediate elections were good, however--

--he was also the guy who advocated an ongoing military presence in Iraq. The thing is, had we just stayed in the background and let the Iraqis run their country their way, we might have gotten by with that. Unfortunately, whether or not the Iraqis wanted to be our "coaling station" was not one of the matters to be put to a vote. Palast accurately nails the reasons why staying in the background was not in the cards.

http://ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=22509

Asked how long U.S. troops might remain in Iraq, Garner replied, ''I hope they're there a long time'', and then compared U.S. goals in Iraq to U.S. military bases in the Philippines between 1898 and 1992.

"One of the most important things we can do right now is start getting basing rights with (the Iraqi authorities)", he said. "And I think we'll have basing rights in the north and basing rights in the south ... we'd want to keep at least a brigade".

"Look back on the Philippines around the turn of the 20th century: they were a coaling station for the navy, and that allowed us to keep a great presence in the Pacific. That's what Iraq is for the next few decades: our coaling station that gives us great presence in the Middle East", Garner added.

While U.S. military strategists have hinted for some time that a major goal of war was to establish several bases in Iraq, particularly given the ongoing military withdrawal from Saudi Arabia, Garner is the first to state it so baldly.

[Blue_Tires]

65. i think he was one of the pentagon's "useful idiots"

[Nikki Stone 1]

67. kick and recommend

:kick:

[Disturbed]

68. I am still puzzled as to why

al Sistani went along with this. He could have issued a Fatwa to expell the US/UK Invaders.

[Just Me]

69. No offense, but, I already knew Iraq was a "takeover" and sell,...

,...plan. But, apparently, this is a nation that supports/enables that form of oppression because we no longer commit to all those agreements and conventions and pacts and agreements in the aftermath of WWII to PULL HUMANITY TOGETHER rather than tear them apart.

Cheney got his SECRET energy monsters together, apparently with the grace of congress and the courts, and decided which profiteer would gain what part of a sovereign nation that was NO FUCKING THREAT TO US.

Okay. the only way for monsters to control innocents is to make up and/or create monsters among them.

These evil pricks are of the few I would advocate caging like animals BECAUSE THEY BEHAVE FAR, FAR WORSE THAN ANY ANIMAL!!!!!

I gotta' get off here, now. Take care of creating peace in my little zone of the world.

[me b zola]

70. K&R

[Olney Blue]

71. k/r

[ronnie624]

73. Good article.

Thanks for the post.

It is very interesting and revealing as well that so few of those who love to cast around the "conspiracy theory" meme have so little to say on threads such as this one.

[oasis]

74. Palast is tops.

[Postman]

75. Complements Naomi Klein's - Baghdad: Year Zero

http://www.harpers.org/BaghdadYearZero.html

[Wetzelbill]

78. thanks for posting this

:)

[Name removed]

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[Vidar]

80. Excellent. Thanks for posting.

[Wetzelbill]

81. you are welcome

:)

[jazzjunkysue]

82. Cant' rec but can still kick!! Kick em high! Bloggers, get busy.

This needs to go network in the worst way. Start spewing, everyone. Don't let this die.

[Wetzelbill]

83. I know I was hoping to hit 100

but I'll settle for 90 just as long as the word keeps getting out. :)

[jazzjunkysue]

84. Here ya go.

:smile: