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The biggest obstacle, as Mr. Shreve so correctly point out, is the willingness of the media to cooperate and bind itself to the process. There are few, if any, of the major media who will even admit there is a problem. That's why we need to be extraordinarily vigorous in pursuing and punishing the leakers. One writer told me this morning that the leak of the OBL phone intercepts came from a well-known Democratic senator. If so, he should be facing criminal charges. Those leakers -- in Congress or the Executive -- should be jailed for the crime of publishing our nation's secrets. If the leakers are punished, and the press can be brought to see the problem, maybe we can solve this.

There are many obstacles to solving this problem. But until a better idea comes along, I'm sticking with mine.

To reply to Mr. Martin, I believe the WMD are in large part still hidden in Iraq. Eventually, we will find parts of it. The rest has probably been smuggled out to Syria and even Lebanon. I have received reports of specific locations in Lebanon, but those reports are totally unsubstantiated. Saddam is probably still alive. While he and his sons are in the mix, many Iraqis will not cooperate in finding the WMD. It may be a long time before the WMD are really found and destroyed.

p> EPSON SALT br> Re: Lawrence Henry's Tomorrow's Volkswagen : /p>

You may be right, but who'd buy a used "car" from someone who bought a Kaypro? Me, I was even more full of hubris -- in 1983 I went for the $2500 whiz-bang Epson Q-10! Still got it. Maybe in another 30 years it'll be an antique and I'll get a good return on my "investment"!

p>If most people are like me, they close all pop-up ads as soon as they try to creep into my realm. But then, I've been a TV ad zapper ever since remote controls came out, what, twenty years ago. So, I know I'm not normal. I bet you are correct, though, and through data base mining and targeted advertising, a successful ad business model will arise.

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