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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (529039)	1/25/2004 9:35:54 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

<<...Hungarian-born Soros, 73, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration's foreign policy, particularly arguments used to justify last year's invasion of Iraq. The financier said he plans to add to the $12.5 million he has already given to U.S. advocacy groups that aim to block Bush's re-election. ``I was delighted to see Saddam toppled, but the way in which we did it will make problems in the future,'' Soros said in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``Under the pretence of waging a war on terror, Bush embarked on forcing U.S. supremacy on the world.'' Soros said Bush's administration should have tried to depose former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ``through international institutions'' because the U.S. needs allies and cannot fight all the world's ``despots'' alone. The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq divided the world's governments, gaining the support of countries including Britain and Italy while France and Germany opposed. ``The way they did it will not help in our dealings with the likes of Saddam in the future,'' Soros told Bloomberg News during a dinner for journalists that he hosted in Davos. ``We have shot our bolt, now there has to be an international effort.''....>> quote.bloomberg.com