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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44367)	8/15/2003 12:50:33 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

No surprise here. Arnold Schwarzenegger's top economic adviser, Warren Buffett, targets California's Proposition 13, passage of which set the stage for the Reagan tax revolution of, to resolve the state's budget crisis.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44367)	8/15/2003 12:54:52 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 50167

Can Saddam escape arrest for years? This may be theoretically possible. After all, some Nazi leaders managed to hide for decades. (Klaus Barbie was captured 40 years after the war had ended.) The comparison, however, is not exact. Unlike the Nazis who could hide in South America, Saddam, and the remaining Baathist fugitives, do not have a safe haven outside Iraq. This is why they can be captured. Provided someone begins to look for them seriously This paragraph conspicuously avoids a crucial fact: Klaus Barbie was ushered out of Germany by the U.S., and then used to help support our fascist stooges in Latin America for the next few decades. I was wondering why the author would omit this obviously relevant point, and then I discovered he is a National Review writer, which explains everything. thirdworldtraveler.com And some irony: <<< In the late seventies and early eighties, the Israeli government was training the death squads in Bolivia and Guatemala (250,000 dead) in clandestine operations whose mediator was ... Klaus Barbie, a conspicuous Nazi who was later tried and sentenced in Lyon for crimes against Humanity. >>> Message 18025244 Tom