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Bush promotes going to war in Iraq. I suppose he thinks it will get him re-elected in 2004. But how can people support this President? I am a senior citizen who has had to go back to work part time to help meet expenses. Bush doesn't back any of the things that would help senior citizens. He doesn't promote prescription-drug coverage under Medicare. The tax cuts Bush wants reduce the money available to finance programs that could help senior citizens. My tax refund was $56. Does anyone believe that it could help the economy grow...
...Qaeda has threatened and attempted attacks during the holiday season since 1999, and we have to assume it will be the same this year," says a French official. In an effort to disrupt any potential strikes, French authorities last week arrested Slimane Khalfaoui, a 27-year-old French citizen of Algerian origin and a veteran of jihads in Bosnia and Afghanistan. Material evidence ties Khalfaoui to a Frankfurt cell busted in December 2000 as it prepared an attack on Strasbourg Cathedral. Khal-faoui has also been linked to "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam, an al-Qaeda operative convicted...
...afraid of and how afraid to be,” Ropeik said. “The terror of terrorism poses very real risks. It was made quite clear that this is not a theoretical exercise; this is a real world exercise, and I am heartened as a citizen to see all that is being done...
...Goods (BIG) Campaign, which also calls upon artists and intellectuals to boycott any cultural exchange—political or otherwise—with Israelis. If this is correct, and if Paulin accepts our invitation, I would like to inform him that I, a professor of poetry and an Israeli citizen, will be a participant in the event. We have announced our commitment to unfettered speech; I can only hope that Paulin will either honor his own contrary commitments or publicly renounce them...
...government to recruit informers among Iraqi-Americans has an eerie similarity to the ill-fated TIPS program that the administration had to abandon after public outcry. The government should not be involved in recruiting informers and gathering information with specific threats of terrorist or criminal activity. Although every citizen should be vigilant of suspicious or threatening actions, America has a culture of openness and tolerance that would be poisoned by intense government surveillance measures. The fight against terrorism must go forward, but not at the expense of our Constitutional freedoms...