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To: lorne who wrote (3642)	2/9/2003 9:26:58 PM
From: William B. Kohn	Respond to of 15987

What we need is a committment by people oppossed to the actions of Germany, France, and Belgium to personally work towards a campaign of not buying products from these countries. If we can impact the selling of French wines, cheeses, etc. coupled with German automotive items etc we would go a long way to teaching these ingrates a lesson. I checked and we have a massive trade imbalance with Germany to the tune of around $30 Billion per year while it is almost $10 Billion per year with France. These numbers add up. If we can affect those numbers by only a few percent we will go a long way to teach them the benefits of anti-American policies. Another shocking number is our trade deficit with Iraq in 2001 was over $5.7 Billion, down slightly from the $6. Billion in 2000, unbelieveable!!!!!