[05#38] 2.7=1=12.29=#59: Spring Festival shopping. 1)US in Iraq. 2)Next Iran? 3)Russia-CAsia.

Wet & cloudy: Up 8am, a bit cold cough again. Ying tel, coming right after lunar year day. FoodMaxx fruits then closed side door of the house, to home lunch, emails, before 3:30pm Lung back. To o.h. soon for SF shopping. 3:51pm. Lung out to teach. 4:34pm, leaving very soon. Reaching o.h. , mom tired then tel Ju not home yet from fixing fence for hourse for rent, so drove to "99", read newspapers in car under high light drinking & potato chip not salty at all for the first time, o.h. around 7pm, dinner & tv, while mom busy preparing with what bought for tomorrow. TV & sorting documents. Bed midnight, exceptionally mom also, then she up again forgotten something, she didn't sleep well. 1) USA in Iraq: "Capitalism gone wild - Iraq", Tikkun, Jan-Feb, 2004, by Antonia Juhasz: http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/order39.htm 2) Next Target: Iran? (1) "Democrats and Iran: Look Who Supports Bush's Next War", by Joshua Frank, Antiwar.com, January 22, 2005: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/jfrank.php?articleid=4521 "" By now you have probably heard about the Bush Administration's secret plan to attack Iran and how US Special Forces units have been operating in the country for some time. Seymour Hersh, the maverick journalist for The New Yorker, broke the story earlier this week. "" (2) "Military rumblings on Iran", The New York Times, Friday, January 28, 2005, The International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/: "" President George W. Bush began his second term with speculation rising about future military moves against Iran. Last week, Vice President Dick Cheney placed Iran first on the list of world trouble spots and darkly hinted that unless tougher measures were taken to curtail Iran's nuclear program, Israel might launch its own pre-emptive air strikes. Earlier this month, Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker that secret reconnaissance operations were under way inside Iran, as the Pentagon prepares target lists of nuclear sites that could be attacked from the air or by ground-based commando units. "" 3) "Moscow's Political Tactics Alienating its Near Abroad", Report Drafted By:Molly Corso, Feb. 7, 2005: http://www.pinr.com/ "" Russia has seen its influence in the Caucasus -- and the rest of the former Soviet Union -- wane significantly since the November 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia. ""