Volume 2, Number 19, Thursday 3rd of April, 2003.
Weekly News Summary
Editorial (04/03/2003): on the 10th of February, 2003.......El Voluntario wrote "the war in the gulf is inevitable.......it will be intense but brief." The war will be brief because the -Stalin style- tyranny of Saddam is based on terror and corruption. Therefore, there is no reason or motive for Iraq's military to fight for a bloody despot that has caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of their countrymen. The anticipated urban war will not take place.......there will be no house to house fighting. There will be massive dessertions and massive surrender in Iraq's army. Only the menace of the use of chemical and biological weapons remains. If this is the case, casualties in the allied armies will be minimal.......and the main victims will be among the civilian population. Anyhow, the destiny of Saddam has been sealed and a new beginning -under freedom- is in the immediate future for the people of Iraq
Commentary (05/03/2003): the breakdown at the UN and the war against Saddam.......will yield a double strike against globalization and regional integration.......which so much damage has done to Chile
Commentary (14/03/2003): the pro-Saddam posture adopted by the Chilean politicians
will have negative economic consequences.......that will affect all ordinary Chileans with more unemployment and more poverty
Commentary: socialists, marxists, pacifists, and entreguistas (appeasers) have taken Chilean foreign policy down the wrong path.......it will take a long time to correct the damage
Socialists, marxists, and senator Hosaín Sabag apply pressure on the Lagos administration
to take an active diplomatic role contrary to US policy in Iraq
Socialist senator Gazmuri criticizes the foreign ministry for trying to improve relations with the US
Corruption in the government coalition (known as "la concertación"): latest judicial investigation.......makes reference to President Lagos when he was a minister in the previous government
Commentary: Saddam and his followers -are students Stalin's tactics- who dream with a bloody massacre in Baghdad.......allied commanders should deny them this alternative.......Baghdad should be surrounded and sealed........and allied forces should then make systematic and relentless use of precision air power to neutralize the enemy
Allied forces 6 km from Baghdad.......commandos enter one of Saddam's palaces.......two Republian Guard divisions seriously damaged
3rd Infantry Division
surrounds Baghdad International Airport
Pfc
Jessica Lynch -rescued by special forces- fought bravely.......and sustaimed numerous injuries
Gonzalez, Gutierrez, Contreras, Martinez, Rodriguez, Suarez......Spanish names among the marines fallen in the battle for Irak [Comentary: Chileans and sons of Chileans are part of the US Army and the US Marines]
Argentina.......corruption paradise.......it is number 70 in the list of Transparency International
Possible solution for Argentina: eradicate corruption and.......division in 3 smaller republics
EDITORIAL
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