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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (9331)	2/17/2003 2:37:34 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Bush like father like son, making promises it has no intention of keeping The Bush Administration assures us that if it orders a military invasion of Iraq, it would be committed for the long haul to improving life in that long-suffering land. So it's confounding to learn the Administration failed to request a single penny in its 2003 budget for that other long-suffering land it's so sincerely committed to, Afghanistan. Sane and startled people in Congress stepped forward to budget $295 million for Afghan humanitarian and reconstruction work. Jim Kolbe, the Arizona Republican who helped push through that money, says the Administration never really said how it dropped the ball here -- but did promise him that it wouldn't happen again. Pshyeah! When George Bush talks about a "Marshall Plan" for your country, apparently that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee. It's a lesson unlikely to be lost on Iraqis -- especially since it's been taught them once before by Bush's father, who encouraged the Kurds to rise up against Saddam Hussein, and then flippantly sold them out from the comfort of a Florida golf course. Asked about footage of starving Kurdish refugees, and of the use against them of Saddam's helicopter gunships, Bush I replied impatiently, "I feel no reason to answer to anybody. We're relaxing here." Like father like son.