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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (34840)	1/12/2004 8:24:39 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Soros pledges more cash to defeat Bush smh.com.au January 13, 2004 - 11:33AM Billionaire George Soros said today he is ready to spend more of his fortune on trying to get US President George W Bush voted out of office in November's presidential election. "I am ready to put my money where my mouth is," the Hungarian-born American said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Soros, 74, who is worth about $US7 billion ($A9 billion), spoke at the launch of his new book, The Bubble of American Supremacy, much of which is devoted to hammering US foreign policy under Bush. He has already donated several million dollars to grassroots groups campaigning against Bush. Soros gave $US10 million ($A13 million) to America Coming Together, which campaigns to increase the number of people taking part in elections and $US2.5 million ($A3.2 million) to Moveon.org, an internet campaign group that has opposed the Iraq war and many other Bush policies. The donations have garnered the ire of the Bush camp, which attacked Soros and his ideas. Soros said he will fight back. "It's got a rise out of me and it will probably find an expression in the amount of money (I donate)," Soros said. "I have made rejection of the Bush doctrine the central project of my life for the next year." Soros said he liked the foreign policy platforms of Democratic candidates Senator John Kerry and of retired general Wesley Clark, but he especially liked former Vermont governor Howard Dean. "2004 is not an ordinary election; it is a referendum on the Bush doctrine." Soros said. "The future of the world hangs in the balance." Soros compared Bush's security doctrine to financial bubbles, which arise out of poor analysis. "The misinterpretation is that might is right and (that) we ought to use our dominant position to impose our will on the world," Soros said. "We can either deflate the bubble before it does any more damage or we can endorse the Bush doctrine and suffer the consequences."