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To: i-node who wrote (177322)	10/31/2003 12:28:44 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

No, I've just given one hell of a lot of tax advice to liberals, and it can be a damned stuggle to keep their butts out of prison. No tax law was ever made that liberals don't want to bend to the breaking point. You are weird. How do you know if your client is liberal or not? Do you have them fill out cards that have boxes for conservatives or liberals to be checked? Or can you tell by their income......the ones with all the money are Rep. and the poorer ones liberal?

To: i-node who wrote (177322)	10/31/2003 12:49:38 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Published on Thursday, October 30, 2003 by Reuters U.S. Dissident Says Bush Needs Fear for Reelection by Anthony Boadle HAVANA - U.S. linguist and political dissident Noam Chomsky said on Wednesday that President Bush will have to "manufacture" another threat to American security to win reelection in 2004 after U.S failure in occupying Iraq. Chomsky, attending a Latin American social sciences conference in Cuba, said that since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, the Bush administration had redefined U.S. national security policy to include the use of force abroad, with or without U.N. approval. "It is a frightened country and it is easy to conjure up an imminent threat," Chomsky said at the launching of a Cuban edition of a book of interviews published by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada, when asked how Bush could get reelected. "They have a card that they can play ... terrify the population with some invented threat, and that is not very hard to do," he said. Noam Chomsky (L), MIT professor of linguistics and philosophy, talks with Cuban President Fidel Castro at a conference of the Latin American Social Sciences Council (CLACSO), in Havana October 28, 2003. Chomsky, in a lecture attended by Castro, said President George W. Bush's administration will have to resort to a 'fear factor' and 'manufacture' a new threat to U.S. national security to win the 2004 elections. (Rafael Perez/Reuters) After the "disaster" of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Bush could turn his sights on Communist-run Cuba, which his administration officials have charged with developing a biological weapons research program, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of linguistics said. Chomsky said the military occupation of Iraq, to topple a "horrible monster running it but not a threat to anyone," was a failure. "The country had been devastated by sanctions. The invasion ended sanctions. The tyrant is gone and there is no outside support for domestic dissidence," he said. "It takes real talent to fail in this endeavor." Chomsky said it was reasonable to assume the Bush administration would try to "manufacture a short-term improvement in the economy" by incurring in enormous federal government debt and "imposing burdens on future generations." The Bush administration was a continuation of the Ronald Reagan presidency that declared a national emergency over the threat posed by Nicaragua's leftist government in the 1980s, he said. "The same people were able to present Grenada as a threat to survival of the United States the last time they were in office," Chomsky said, in reference to the U.S. invasion of the Caribbean island in 1983 to thwart Cuban influence. Chomsky, a leftist icon who is better known today for his critique of U.S. foreign policy that for his revolutionary theory of syntax and grammar in the 1960s, gave a lecture on the U.S politics of domination on Tuesday night that was attended by Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The author of "Language and mind," "Manufacturing Consent," "Profit Over People" and "9-11" said the Bush administration was out to dominate the world by the use of military force if need be, and Iraq was the first test. Chomsky criticized Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar for backing the United States and Britain in invading Iraq under a false pretext that the Arab country possessed weapons of mass destruction. Chomsky praised Cuba's defiance of U.S. hostility and trade sanctions for four decades. But he also criticized the jailing of 75 Cuban dissidents earlier this year by Castro's government. "Yes, I have criticized them for that," he said in an interview on August 28 with Radio Havana. "I think it was a mistake." Copyright © 2003 Reuters Limited ###

To: i-node who wrote (177322)	10/31/2003 12:51:35 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573682

Published on Thursday, October 30, 2003 by the Miami Herald Another U.S. Foreign-Policy Failure by Jeffrey D. Sachs The forced resignation of Bolivia's President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, following a month of violent demonstrations, marks a tragic milestone whose significance extends far beyond his impoverished country. The breakdown of civil and political order in Bolivia provides another vivid example of the poverty of U.S. foreign policy. Sánchez de Lozada is one of Latin America's true heroes, a leader who helped usher in democracy and modest economic growth during the past 20 years, including two terms as president. Yet now he has fled Bolivia in fear for his safety. The arrogance and neglect of U.S. foreign policy played a large part in this stunning reversal. Virtually all of South America is in deep economic malaise, suffering high unemployment, rising poverty and growing social unrest. As a landlocked Andean country, Bolivia has faced its own special distress. Its transportation costs are among the world's highest, reflecting the country's mountainous terrain and international trade routes, which must cross political boundaries and depend on foreign ports. This situation discourages inward investment and strains relations with coastal neighbors. Indeed, the precipitating factor in Bolivia's collapse was a plan to export natural gas to the United States through archrival Chile. Sánchez de Lozada spoke of the gas exports as a means for investing in health, education and economic development. But Bolivia's impoverished population had been ripped off too many times and feared, understandably, that the revenues would accrue to foreigners or to Bolivia's own rich. At the same time, more than an economic crisis, bad geography and an unpopular gas deal caused the spark in Bolivia. Enter the war on drugs. When the preceding Bolivian government faced U.S. demands to destroy the coca crop, I advised it to insist on adequate aid to finance economic development benefiting the hundreds of thousands of displaced peasant farmers and their dependents. Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's government ultimately uprooted thousands of hectares of peasant crops -- and got almost nothing in return but phony slogans about alternative development. Not surprisingly, the 2002 elections turned on the explosive coca-eradication issue. Sánchez de Lozada barely beat Evo Morales, the leader of the coca growers' federation, and warned President Bush last year that extreme poverty and widening ethnic divisions could lead to an insurrection. Bush literally laughed in his face, saying that he, too, faced political pressures. Sánchez de Lozada pressed for help -- $150 million -- but Bush quickly ushered him from the Oval Office with a pat on the back. Sánchez de Lozada returned to Bolivia empty-handed -- except for instructions from the International Monetary Fund to implement austerity measures in accordance with U.S. dictates. The measures led to a police strike, followed by popular upheaval and an assassination attempt against Sánchez de Lozada. IMF officials deny responsibility but have failed to provide an honest public appraisal of Bolivia's urgent financial needs. Now U.S. policy interests in Bolivia lie in a predictable shambles: The country is seething with violence, and coca production is likely to soar. An obsessive U.S. administration, led by a president who reportedly believes that he is on a holy mission to fight terror in the Middle East, has lost interest even in helping its friends. Jeffrey D. Sachs is professor of economics and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Copyright 1996-2003 Knight Ridder ###