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To: freelyhovering who wrote (130856)	5/1/2004 1:33:59 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mother Jones magazine had an amazing story on the gassing of the Kurds from that period of time. I still remember the pictures from that story. I wish I'd saved my magazines.

To: freelyhovering who wrote (130856)	5/1/2004 2:00:41 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

A Deafening Silence on War Costs ______________________________________ Bush needs to level with Americans on how he plans to pay for a long, costly Iraq occupation without dragging down the economy yahoo.businessweek.com <<...CONFLICTING AGENDAS. Richard Nixon also attempted to lowball costs. The price of fiscal irresponsibility during Vietnam was high indeed. Budget deficits soared, inflation took off to double-digit levels, and the economy careened from one crisis to another. The intangible cost of citizens losing confidence in government leaders may have been even greater. President Bush has compounded the problem faced by all White House occupants during a military conflict by simultaneously running for reelection as the War President and the Tax-Cutting President. The latter stance may have to be abandoned to support the former. One way for Bush to pay for the war is to discard his campaign pledge to make temporary tax cuts permanent. Alternatively, he could propose a temporary income surtax to help foot the war bill. His father came up with an innovative way to maintain sound fiscal policy during war: America's foreign allies essentially foot the bill for the first Persian Gulf War. But the current Administration is too isolated internationally to even consider replicating that technique. I realize that asking Bush to change his tax-cutting philosophy is naïve, about as credible as calling for the Pentagon to embrace a national draft. But what I want to know -- and think everyone deserves to know -- is how he plans to maintain troops in the field while embracing sound fiscal policy at home? The silence says it all...>>

To: freelyhovering who wrote (130856)	5/1/2004 5:46:02 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I thought the Galbreath article had some good points until the end (though how the US was supposed to anticipate that the first Iraqi act of freedom would be to loot the National Library, I don't know.), when the usual litany of only-the-UN-has-legitimacy-never-mind-its-totally-corrupt-and-was-in-Saddams-pocket gets to me. The UN, as presently constituted, is worse than useless, and I think these internationalist types should stop chucking stones at the Bush administration, which unlike them, has to deal with problems in real time, and make some constructive suggestion on how to arrange an international organization that has transparency and accountability and actually cares about human rights violations.