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...capital spending further next year. BOTTOM LINES "I used to look up at the Imperial Hotel, now I stay at the Imperial Hotel. It's nice to see the working class doing well, isn't it?" John Reid, Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, on the success of the Labour government's policies "I will not be ashamed to say in three years' time that I've done nothing." Paolo Scaroni, Enel CEO, saying he won't turn the Italian utility into an empire "I don't think a $100 billion tax on U.S. citizens is a good thing." Scott McNealy...
...everyone agrees the U.S. (and now British) methods are the best way to secure the peace. President Bush's strategy of "regime change" garnered some applause from Blair's usual foes, members of the conservative Tory party, including leader Iain Duncan Smith, but prompted jeers from his fellow Labour members, 53 of whom staged a rally Tuesday night, protesting the possibility of military action in Iraq. The Labour rebels were joined by several other MPs, including most of the Scottish Nationalist contingent and four Welsh representatives...
...protesters' ranks included both longtime opponents of war in general and some MPs who believe the U.S. call for military action - and the British response to that call - is a thinly veiled response to threats on oil supplies. Labour MP Alan Simpson told the Belfast News Letter, "Sadly, I think Bush will hit Iraq in much the same way that a drunk will hit a bottle. He needs to satisfy his thirst for power and oil." Simpson then dismissed Blair's report as "deeply flawed, partial and superficial," according to the paper...
...Saddam is either linked to al-Qaeda or that his weapons of mass destruction pose an immediate threat. Otherwise, it will be next to impossible to sell an attack to a skeptical public. To date, the Bush Administration hasn't offered any proof on either count. Tony Blair's Labour government has promised a dossier outlining the case against Saddam but has conspicuously failed to deliver...
Before the start of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, the Labour government did publish evidence linking the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to the Sept. 11 attacks, a move that was seen as vital to maintaining public support. "But the [Iraq] dossier is a bit like the Grand Old Duke of York," says Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrats' shadow foreign secretary. "It's been up the hill and down the hill. If it amounts to something of substance, then it could be persuasive. If it's just a set of newspaper cuttings, then there would...