harry hope

From The Washington Post, 7/25/03:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42884-2003Jul24.html

WMD May as Well Be a Four-Letter Word

By Al Kamen

Friday, July 25, 2003; Page A23

The administration has been moving quickly to quash the brouhaha over
the president's use of questionable allegations about Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction in the State of the Union address in January.

Senior officials keep taking responsibility, while White House folks
say it was a minor matter and work hard to move on.

President Bush, as he did so successfully with the also-at-large Osama
bin Laden, doesn't mention WMD anymore.

"A reliable staple of past addresses, the four words did not cross his
lips during two public appearances in Pennsylvania and Michigan on


"Nor did Bush use the phrase on Wednesday in a formal update on the
progress U.S. forces have made in Iraq that he delivered from the
White House Rose Garden."

But it would be a shame historically to let the whole flap disappear
without at least giving it a name, a shorthand phrase, anything but a
" -- gate" of some sort, so it can be referred to easily in the
future.

Loop Fans can help!

Yes, it's the Loop Name That Flap Contest.

Simply think of a catchy name to call Bush's current problem, scandal
or whatever, and submit it via e-mail to intheloop@washpost.com or
mail to:

In the Loop, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW., Washington, D.C.
20071.

Don't forget to include your name, occupation, address and day and
evening telephone numbers.

Entries from Hill folks or administration officials may be submitted
on background.

The top 10 winners will receive one of those coveted In the Loop
T-shirts.

Deadline is Monday, Aug. 4.

__________________________________________________ ____

Get it in. Not much time.

Harry

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Didn't you get the Memo? That's now "Evidence of Programs of Weapons of
Mass Destruction" or EPWMD

please run this simple script on all your data files in order to bring them
into complience

$message=~s/WMD/EPWMD/g;

-- your friendly big brother