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To: Rascal who wrote (40369)	8/27/2002 6:06:09 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How do you know all this? I don't. As I said, "The allegations against Padilla, if true." Oh and he has no lawyer. The name of Padilla's court-appointed lawyer is Donna Newman. You could look it up.

To: Rascal who wrote (40369)	8/27/2002 6:08:54 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Bush's Environmental Blow-Off By Sam Parry Consortium News August 26, 2002 consortiumnews.com <<...From the drive to finish off Iraq's Saddam Hussein to the insistence on tax cuts regardless of the widening budget deficits to a showy conference on domestic economic problems, Bush-43 has, in the words of New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, "tried to use his father's failures in the eyes of conservatives as a reverse playbook." [NYT, Aug. 18, 2002] Dissing the environment is one of those lessons. On one environmental issue after another, Bush-43 has heeded the position papers of conservative think tanks and big business to weaken standards and undermine enforcement mechanisms, including breaking a campaign pledge to regulate carbon-dioxide, a leading cause of global warming. [ For other examples, go to sierraclub.org ] Yet while Bush may score some political points with his conservative base by stiffing the second Earth Summit, his absence may come at a further cost to America’s international standing. Bush’s decision to skip the summit, while many heads of state from Europe and elsewhere attend, will reinforce a growing worldwide consensus that Bush is hell-bent on a unilateralist foreign policy. There also is a developing bipartisan recognition among senior U.S. foreign policy experts that international support is needed for the war on terrorism as well as Bush’s goal of "regime change" in Iraq. Nevertheless, Bush continues to pick fights that seem designed to offend nations, from allies to adversaries...>>