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Bush reveals double standard

Earlier this week, the United States attacked an Iraqi convoy headed for the Syrian border in another attempt to capture or assassinate Saddam Hussein, his sons and/or high officials. In the process, they violated the Syrian border, wounded Syrian guards and killed or wounded others.

But that was fine because President Bush and the United States did it - even though Bush can't find weapons of mass destruction, Saddam posed no proven direct threat to the United States and innocent Iraqis have been killed in past U.S. assassination attempts on Saddam and his sons.

When Israel targets the leaders of the terrorist-murderers of Hamas for assassination, Bush becomes upset and demands that Israel stop trying to protect its own people. Yet, these Hamas leaders refuse to negotiate a secure and good-faith peace and daily send out paid young murderers to blow up innocent Israelis, including women and children, in shopping malls, on buses and in restaurants.

Can Bush spell "hypocrisy?"

BOB RUBINSTEIN

Eugene

Dean's speech was inspiring

The Register-Guard's lack of news coverage about Howard Dean's June 23 speech was a disservice to its readers and to everyone seeking an alternative to Bush administration policies of pre-emptive war, service cuts for the poor and "no-millionaire-left-behind" tax cuts.

Dean declared his candidacy with an inspiring speech to 5,000 people in Vermont and thousands more throughout America via the Internet. Meanwhile, President Bush...

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