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To: American Spirit who wrote (14237)	3/10/2003 8:57:46 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Clinton in First 60 Minutes Debate: Tax Cut Is Bad Economics Sunday, March 09, 2003 URL:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80633,00.html NEW YORK — Former President Clinton, in his first televised mini-debate with Republican Bob Dole on Sunday, said that a tax cut at a time that war is looming in Iraq is "bad economics." Dole, Clinton's opponent in the 1996 presidential election, said the Bush administration has launched a global war to protect the American way of life, "which means, among other things, the freedom to save or invest our own money." The retired politicians have agreed to revive the "Point-Counterpoint" segment on 60 Minutes, television's most popular newsmagazine. In the two-minute debate, the two will face off on a subject of their own choosing. Sunday's segment was the first, and Clinton chose to talk about his successor's proposed tax cut; Dole gets to choose the next segment. Clinton said a conflict with Iraq and the subsequent rebuilding will cost many billions of dollars when the country is at a deficit. "Now when we're cutting back on everything from homeland security to education and with Iraq still to pay for, your party wants another big tax cut," Clinton said. "Never before have we had a big tax cut in times of national crisis. Lincoln didn't. FDR didn't. With over 200,000 young Americans in the Persian Gulf, we shouldn't. It's wrong and it's bad economics." Dole responded that it didn't have to be one or the other. "For President Bush to practice the economics of 'either/or' would not only invite political attack from your friends who want his job, it would risk winning the battle and losing the war," the former Senate majority leader said. After their initial 45-second segments, both politicians were given 15 more seconds to make another point. "Leadership is about choosing," Clinton said. "So let's give up our tax cut." No way, said Dole, arguing that many of the nation's economic problems could be traced to an economic hangover from the roaring '90s. "The Bush tax cut has barely kicked in," Dole said. "But I'll tell you what. I'll gladly donate my tax cut to a worthy charity, if you will. Maybe even to the Clinton library."

To: American Spirit who wrote (14237)	3/10/2003 11:20:36 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Second US diplomat quits over Iraq policy March 11 2003 A veteran US diplomat resigned today in protest over US policy toward Iraq, becoming the second career foreign service officer to do so in the past month. John Brown, who joined the State Department in 1981, said he resigned because he could not support Washington's Iraq policy, which he said was fomenting a massive rise in anti-US sentiment around the world. In a resignation letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Brown said he agreed with J Brady Kiesling, a diplomat at the US embassy in Athens who quit in February over President George W Bush's apparent intent on fighting Iraq. "I am joining my colleague John Brady Kiesling in submitting my resignation from the Foreign Service - effective immediately - because I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against Iraq," he said. "Throughout the globe the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force," Brown said in the letter, a copy of which he sent to AFP. "The president's disregard for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an anti-American century," he said. "I joined the Foreign Service because I love our country," Brown said. "Respectfully, Mr Secretary, I am now bringing this calling to a close, with a heavy heart but for the same reason that I embraced it." Two senior State Department officials confirmed that Powell had received the letter from Brown, who had served at the US embassies in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow before being assigned to be a diplomat-in-residence at Georgetown University in Washington. Brown and Kiesling are believed to be the only US diplomats to have resigned from the foreign service over Iraq to date. - AFP theage.com.au