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Who would have believed 60 years ago that the great critics of democracy in the Middle East would now be American novelists and European utopians, while Indians, Poles, and Japanese were supporting those who just wanted the chance to vote? Who would have thought that a young Marine from the suburbs of Topeka battling the Dark Ages in Fallujah — the real humanist — was doing more to aid the planet than all the billions of the U.N.?
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson111904.html

Companies in 'oil-for-food' scam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4025057.stm
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/34429.htm

President Bush's Kissing Cabinet
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61016-2004Nov18.html

Addiction to porn destroying lives, Senate told
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6525520/

He urged the hunt lobby to “calm down” and respect “the will of the elected Chamber.” (gag)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6523705/

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn07.html

http://www.thetruthaboutiraq.org/about.htm

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041119/wl_afp/un_annan_041119115027