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To: i-node who wrote (180947)	1/19/2004 10:50:42 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1574674

Frankly, based on your previous posts, you know so little about taxation (and other fiscal matters) that you wouldn't know whether there were lies or not. It seems that your knowledge of taxation, or more likely self serving bush butt smooching adoration, does not allow you to recognize that they were lies either. Al

To: i-node who wrote (180947)	1/19/2004 12:51:52 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574674

>> The vast majority of my tax cuts goes to people on the bottom" lies Frankly, based on your previous posts, you know so little about taxation (and other fiscal matters) that you wouldn't know whether there were lies or not. Your hatred for the best president in the last 50 years is just overwhelming any ability to reason you may have once had. One more for our resident tax expert... Al andrewtobias.com

To: i-node who wrote (180947)	1/19/2004 4:24:47 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574674

Your hatred for the best president in the last 50 years is just overwhelming any ability to reason you may have once had. How long do you think it will be before the hatred for Bush and America explodes in Iraq? Let me hazard a guess........it will happen before the November election! ******************************************************** Thousands of Iraqis Demand Elections on Day of U.N. Talks By EDWARD WONG Published: January 19, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 19 — Up to 100,000 Iraqis marched peacefully through the center of the Iraqi capital today in a show of support for a revered Shiite cleric who opposes the way the United States plans to transfer power to Iraqis. The march was a powerful display of Shiite solidarity at a time when leaders of that group, which makes up more than 60 percent of the population, are beginning to realize their political influence over many Iraqis and, consequently, over American policy here. The demonstration's organizers clearly intended to send a message to senior American and Iraqi officials who met in New York today with United Nations officials to discuss the resistance from the cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Demands from Ayatollah Sistani for direct elections of a transitional assembly before the handover on June 30 have forced American officials to turn to the United Nations in an effort to legitimize their own blueprint for selecting the assembly. A representative of Ayatollah Sistani in Baghdad said in an interview that the cleric still insisted on direct elections and wanted the United Nations to monitor the process. What role the United Nations would play, if any, is unclear, especially given the tenuous security situation in Iraq. Today, the country's health minister, Khudair Abbas, said the death toll from a powerful suicide car bomb that exploded at the main entrance of the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority on Sunday had risen to 24 people. About 120 people were injured, Mr. Abbas said, according to The Associated Press. In terms of casualties, it was the single most devastating bombing in Iraq since American forces occupied the country last April. Like the large demonstration today, the attack on Sunday was undoubtedly an attempt to influence the direction of the talks at the United Nations, which withdrew all its workers from Iraq in October after several bombings at its headquarters here, including one in late August that killed 23 people, including the chief of the United Nations mission that was here. The march today started at 8 a.m. around Khulani Square, and did not taper off until midafternoon, with people walking a mile through central Baghdad carrying banners and chanting slogans in support of their most revered spiritual leader. "All the people are with you, Ayatollah Sistani," the marchers chanted as they flowed beneath an overpass to the area around Mustansiriya University, where they began to disperse. Many people held up portraits of the reclusive Ayatollah Sistani, a 75-year old white-bearded man dressed in black robes and a black turban. Others held up paintings of Ali, Hussein and Abbas, the three most important Shiite martyrs, all killed in the seventh century in murders that solidified the Sunni-Shiite split. Green flags, symbols of Shiite Islam, rippled above the heads of the crowd. American helicopters buzzed overhead as an announcer with a bullhorn urged the marchers onward. "Say yes, yes to elections and no, no to appointing the people in any way other than elections," he said. "Enough with America!" people yelled from the street.** nytimes.com