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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (2142)	7/15/2002 12:10:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

On immoral high ground Bush and Blair are hardly the best people to lead the world in a war of good against evil By Richard Ingrams Sunday July 14, 2002 The Observer <<...You can earn a good living these days as a financial pundit from airing your views about the so-called crisis in confidence that is causing a worldwide slump on the stock market. Not being a financial pundit myself, I hesitate to advance an opinion. But, money aside, one can hazard a guess as to why so many people might feel gloomy about the state of affairs in general. Thus, a) a number of large businesses, particularly in the US, have been revealed as fraudulent on a massive scale, and b) the people in charge of America, in particular President Bush and Vice-President Cheney are shown to be closely involved with these large businesses, while the President is suspected of dodgy deals in relation to his own shareholdings to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars. This same President, who claims to occupy the 'moral high ground' and act as the champion of sound business practices and for good against evil on the international scene, is currently intent on waging a dangerous war on Saddam Hussein, who poses no overt threat to anyone apart from his own subjects. Meanwhile, our own Prime Minister, eager to share the same moral high ground, has done everything possible to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bush so that, in the eyes of the world, Britain and America are now seen as allies in the 'War Against Terrorism', the war against Saddam and the overall war of good against evil. In the circumstances, is it so surprising that people should feel less than confident about the general state of affairs, a fact, that in turn, could possibly have some bearing on the state of the money markets?...>> guardian.co.uk