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"Just where are those weapons?"
http://www.sunspot.net/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=bal%2Dop%2Echapman20may20§ion=/printstory
As embarrassments go, this one is in a league with having your pants fall
down on Main Street at high noon. In his State of the Union address, the
president managed to give the impression that Mr. Hussein had piles of the
stuff reaching to the sky. That was why we had to act immediately.
[snip]
Wait - it gets worse. The Washington Post reports that seven nuclear
facilities in Iraq have been pillaged.
"The Bush administration fears that technical documents, sensitive equipment
and possibly radiation sources have been scattered," it says. "Some of the
containers that held radioactive sources ... are missing."
That's right: Material that could be used to make a "dirty bomb," or even a
nuclear device, may be up for grabs.
Before the war, Mr. Hussein's arsenal was hidden away under the tightest
control, and he didn't dare use it. Today, the nastiest stuff he owned could
be in the hands of Osama bin Laden and his confederates, who will use
anything they can get. Are you feeling safer?
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"Dividend Voodoo"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13113-2003May19?language=printer
And our receptionist? She'd still be paying about 30 percent, which means
she would be contributing about 10 times the proportion of her income that I
would to such government pursuits as fighting terrorism, waging wars and
supporting the elderly. Let me repeat the point: Her overall federal tax
rate would be 10 times what my rate would be.
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"The U.S. is addicted to war on drugs"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20030520/CODECRIM/TPComment/
This isn't the first time the U.S. government has tried to bludgeon Canada
into adopting backward U.S. policies. In the 1920s, it tried to compel
Canada to help enforce U.S. alcohol prohibition. Canada resisted -- as you
had the century before, when you rejected U.S. demands for the return of
fugitive slaves. Think of the war on drugs as America's addiction. Canada's
obligation, as friend and neighbour, is to speak to power.
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-- Hop-Frog
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