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To: Mephisto who wrote (4493)	9/20/2002 2:19:23 PM
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German Official Compares Bush on Iraq to Hitler By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, September 20, 2002; Page A19 The following is an excerpt from the article: BERLIN, Sept. 19 -- " Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's justice minister said yesterday that President Bush's "method" of pressuring Iraq was similar to tactics employed by Adolf Hitler because both sought to divert attention from domestic problems, according to a German newspaper. The minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, was also quoted as saying that the United States "has a lousy legal system" and that "Bush would be sitting in prison today" if current U.S. laws against insider trading had been on the books when he worked in the oil industry in Texas." © 2002 The Washington Post Company washingtonpost.com

To: Mephisto who wrote (4493)	9/23/2002 9:10:11 AM
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Iraq and the Economy Washington Post Editorial Friday, September 20, 2002; Page A28 washingtonpost.com The following is an excerpt: " The administration has therefore been right to play down the economic side of the Iraq decision. But it has failed to face up to the economic consequences of its longer-term struggle against terrorism. The burden of a bigger defense budget, an ambitious homeland security agenda and expanded commitments in areas such as intelligence and foreign aid imposes a clear strain on the budget; unlike the one-time cost of fighting an Iraq war, it represents new expenses that stretch out indefinitely. The administration ought to accept that this burden requires rethinking its promised but not yet implemented tax cuts. Instead it pretends that the nation can afford to fight terrorism and cut taxes at the same time; it is even proposing a new wave of cuts on top of the huge package it secured from Congress last year." washingtonpost.com