[Peace-discuss] News notes, Feb. 17 (Part 1 of 3 parts)

[C. G. Estabrook]

	NOTES ON THE "WAR ON TERRORISM" THIS WEEK
	FOR AWARE MEETING 20020217

[I wasn't able to resist adding some comments this week: the remarks in
caps are mine.  Also, since the subject of drugs seems so close to our
president's heart, I've appended a devastating interview with Chomsky on
the reaction of the "War-on-Drugs" with the "War-on-Terrorism."  --CGE]

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2002

HOW THE "WAR" IS BEING FOUGHT. Afghan villagers who were misidentified by
US military forces as al Qaeda and Taliban fighters said they were beaten
and kicked by their captors and imprisoned in what they described as a
wooden-barred "cage" at a US base in Kandahar. Several of the 27 former
prisoners, who were released Wednesday, said US soldiers treated them so
harshly that two men lost consciousness during the beatings while others
suffered fractured ribs, loosened teeth and swollen noses ... Four of the
27 men described their experiences here for the first time since they were
nabbed in an early morning attack Jan. 24 at a local school and a district
government office that Pentagon officials described as outposts for al
Qaeda and Taliban hold-outs. Twenty-one other villagers were killed in the
assault and one US soldier was wounded ... The US military released the
captives two weeks after they were detained, with one officer telling
them, "We are sorry. We committed a mistake bombing this place," according
to the ex-prisoners. US officials in Washington, acknowledging that
something went wrong here, have said the CIA is distributing reparations
money to the families of those killed. Although the US Central Command,
which runs the war in Afghanistan, released the 27 men, it has steadfastly
refused to acknowledge error, saying an investigation is still underway
... The bloodiest assault occurred at the school, a U-shaped building of
gray stone. Its courtyard is now a graveyard of twisted, shrapnel-shredded
vehicles. Its facade is pocked with hundreds of bullet holes. The floor of
one classroom is marked with bloodstains. The administrative office is
charred black." I first heard a missile hit, then two minutes later the
shooting started," said Amanullah, 25, one of about 30 employees of the
disarmament commission who was sleeping at the compound, a common practice
in rural communities where transportation is limited and distances are
vast. "I heard shouting outside coming toward the rooms. "Amanullah said
he and three companions scrambled out the windows as soldiers burst
through the door spraying the room with bullets. "I was very scared," he
said. "Bullets were hitting the window." In one classroom, the door jamb,
walls and window frames were spattered with bullet holes. Amanullah said
he glanced back and saw soldiers struggling with his cousin, who had tried
to escape with him. Amanullah hid in a nearby mosque throughout the night
and returned the next morning to find his cousin dead, with bullet wounds
to the back of his neck, stomach and shoulder. He said the rounds all
appeared to have been fired from behind. His cousin's hands, he said, were
bound behind his back with white plastic handcuffs stenciled with the
words "Made in USA." Amanullah said he saw eight bodies of men who had
been handcuffed. He began cutting the strips of plastic off so the men
could be returned to their families for burial. Local officials said 19
men were killed at the school, including the two top officers of the
disarmament commission, whose bodies were found burned ... At nearly the
same time the assault occurred at the school, US Special Forces slipped
into the compound of the district government building where district
government employees, including Rauf, the police chief, were sleeping.
Pentagon officials said US troops began shooting because they were fired
on at the two compounds. Former prisoners and other witnesses at both
sites, most of whom had been asleep when the incident began, either
reported hearing no weapons fire from their own guards or said they were
unaware how the event started. Two men were killed and 27 were taken
prisoner at the district building. The detainees included six men taken
out of the police station jail, where they had been held on various
criminal charges. Missiles destroyed a portion of the building where
weapons were stored and destroyed several vehicles. The US forces, who
were wearing masks, tied the detainees' hands and feet, blindfolded them
and slipped hoods over their heads, according to several of the prisoners.
Each of the prisoners interviewed said they had been beaten, kicked and
punched with the soldiers' fists, feet and in some cases, gunstocks. "I
thought they were going to kill me," said Ziauddin, 50, who was working as
a guard for the new post-Taliban government and said two of his upper
teeth had been knocked loose. "We had no idea why they were beating us. We
were completely innocent." They were then loaded into helicopters and
flown to the US base at Kandahar. When the men reached the base, "They
told us to lie on the cold floor," said Allah Noor, the policeman. As the
soldiers were beating the men, the prisoners were screaming, "We're
Karzai's people. We have been for two months. "All 27 men were forced onto
their stomachs, with their hands tied behind their backs and their feet
chained, according to each of four former prisoners interviewed. They were
then all connected with a rope, they said. "They were walking on our backs
like we were stones," Rauf said. "They hit me in the head. My nose hit the
ground and became very swollen. "The next morning the US soldiers tore off
the men's clothing and ordered them to put on blue uniforms, the detainees
said. At one point, Akhtar Mohammad, 17, said he lost consciousness.
Mohammad said he was kept in solitary confinement in a large shipping
container for much of his detention. The six accused criminals taken from
the jail were separated from the group. But the 20 other men were kept
together in what they described as a "cage" with wooden bars and a canvas
top. The men said they were fed US military Meals Ready-to-Eat and were
not allowed to wash ... Rauf, huddled under a brown blanket in a corner of
his mud-walled house, said he still can barely stand because of the blows
to his kidneys. "I can never forgive them," he said. [WASHINGTON POST]

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2002

ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION LEADS TO UN "DISPLEASURE" AND "UPSET" -- BUT NO CHANGE
IN POLICY OF REPRESSION. The UN expressed its displeasure at Israel
Monday, after a second day of Israeli rocket attacks in Gaza City. At
least 39 people have been injured - including two UN staffers - in the
attacks, which Israel said are in retaliation for earlier Palestinian
strikes. Fred Eckherd, a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,
said Monday Annan is upset at the escalating series of attacks and
counterattacks between Israelis and Palestinians. He said Annan was
particularly dismayed by Israel's shelling of Palestinian targets near
civilian areas. On Sunday, Israeli warplanes targeted Palestinian
Authority offices in Gaza City, which are next to the offices of the UN's
top Middle East envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen. The explosions blew out windows,
caused a roof to collapse and damaged a wall. Two UN workers were injured.
Nearby offices of the World Bank and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
were also damaged in the attacks. On Monday, Israeli planes and helicopter
gunships again swooped down on Gaza City, damaging Palestinian security
headquarters and an adjacent jail in which suspected militants were being
held. At least 37 people were hurt by shrapnel. The strike triggered
street protests by Palestinians demanding the release of prisoners for
their own safety. Police had to fire guns in the air to keep demonstrators
from storming the jail ... Israel said Monday's strike was punishment for
a Palestinian attempt to fire rockets into a communal farm in southern
Israel. Two Qassam-2 rockets fired from Gaza fell harmlessly into a field
short of the community Monday ... Qassam-2 rockets have a range of about
eight kilometres ... Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack,
and said in a statement it would not be the last ... Also on Monday,
Israel's Justice Ministry announced it will hold an inquiry into the
killing of a 14-year-old Palestinian youth last week. Samer Abu Mayyaleh
died while being chased by police ... Police originally said Abu
Mayyaleh's death was a mystery, but an autopsy later confirmed a bullet
had entered his left buttock and hit both his liver and his heart. [CBC]

MORE. The Israeli army has made an incursion into the West Bank town of
Halhoul, killing a Palestinian police officer ... Palestinian officials
said three buildings had been destroyed in Halhoul, including a foundry
... The incursion follows criticism of Israel from the United States and
the United Nations for a number of air strikes on Gaza Monday's raids, in
which more than 50 people were injured, were described by the US State
Department as "counterproductive" [BBC]

US PROMOTES RECONCILIATION IN SW ASIA. President Saddam Hussein said
Monday Iraq will stand firmly by Iran against ''any aggression,''
affirming an affinity with an erstwhile enemy with which it fought an
eight-year war in the 1980s. ''We say it loud and clear: we are against
aggression on Iran for many reasons and we are committed to our stand,''
Saddam told a cabinet meeting, according to the official Iraqi News
Agency. Saddam made what diplomatic observers believe to be the first
sympathetic gesture toward Iran since the 1980-1998 Iran-Iraq war, which
claimed the lives of over a million people on both sides. Ties between the
two Islamic neighbors -- branded by US President George W. Bush as part of
an ''axis of evil'' --remained strained ever since the 1980s war, but
lately the two countries have been engaged in a slow and steady
rapprochement. ''Iran is a neighborly country, and whatever affects it in
terms of instability, aggression or harm would have inevitable
repercussions on us. Because of the deep historical reasons as well, we
are against any aggression on Iran,'' Saddam was quoted as saying. INA
said Saddam sent a congratulatory message to Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami on the 23rd anniversary of the Iranian revolution that brought the
Islamic clergy to power in Iran. Saddam said he wishes the Iranian people
''progress and prosperity and the ties between our two countries
continuous development and growth.'' [KYODO]

THIS IS NOT A JOKE. The FBI urged law enforcement agencies around the
world to stop or detain Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni national who was
born in Saudi Arabia in 1979 and has a number of aliases, as well as 16 of
his known associates. FBI officials said there was no record that
al-Rabeei had ever entered the United States. His current whereabouts are
unknown, and he may even be dead, the FBI said in its alert. US
authorities said they did not know the intended target of the planned
plot. US officials also said they did not know what method might be used
to carry out the attack, which was supposed to occur "on or around" Feb.
12. "We know that a guy said that he talked to a guy who talked to a guy
who said that this guy might do something bad on today," said a US
official who did not want to be identified. "We also had heard similar
things from some other means which I cannot discuss saying that somebody
with a similar name was planning something bad around now," the official
told Reuters. "The two of those things put together and the fact that the
guy is a known associate of bad people makes one cautious." [REUTERS]

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2002

HAPPY NEW YEAR. Millions clapped their hands in prayer and burned incense
sticks at Buddhist and Taoist temples across the Chinese-speaking world
Tuesday to celebrate the lunar Year of the Horse. [AP]

USUAL SUCK-UPS.  Sixty leading intellectuals, mostly high-powered
academics [SIC] who study ethics, religion and public policy at American
universities and think tanks, will issue an open letter today explaining
why they believe the war on terrorism is necessary and just. "There are
times when waging war is not only morally permitted, but morally
necessary, as a response to calamitous acts of violence, hatred and
injustice. This is one of those times," the letter says. Among the signers
of "What We're Fighting For: A Letter From America" are former senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), now a professor at Syracuse University;
Francis Fukuyama of Johns Hopkins; James Q. Wilson of the University of
California at Los Angeles; Samuel Huntington and Theda Skocpol of Harvard;
and Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University. Though weighted toward
the moderate right, the signers run the gamut politically from Michael
Walzer, a democratic socialist at Princeton, to Michael Novak, a
conservative at the American Enterprise Institute. [WALZER IS A
PRO-ISRAELI OF THE WIESEL/PERETZ SCHOOL; NOVAK IS A LIBERAL CATHOLIC WHO
BECAME A CONSERVATIVE WHEN HE WAS DISSED BY THE NEW LEFT 30 YEARS AGO.]
The 10-page letter tries to speak for Americans as a whole, elaborating
American values and declaring the nation's right to defend itself after
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It sticks to broad moral arguments and
does not specifically mention the US-led military campaign that ousted the
Taliban movement in Afghanistan. Nor does it address some of the war's
thorniest issues, such as how to treat Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners and
how to balance security and civil liberties in the United States. But the
letter does define, perhaps more clearly than the Bush administration has,
who the enemy is: "radical Islamicism," a "violent, extremist and
radically intolerant religious-political movement that now threatens the
world, including the Muslim world." [WASH POST]

FINALLY, A TOPIC HE KNOWS SOMETHING ABOUT. President Bush on Tuesday set a
goal of reducing illegal drug use by 25 percent over the next five years
by improving law enforcement and treating more addicts. His
administration's anti-drug strategy seeks a 10 percent reduction in drug
use within two years. "We're putting the fight against drugs in the center
of our national agenda," Bush said in an East Room ceremony attended by
lawmakers, ambassadors and anti-drug officials. "We've got a problem in
this country: Too many people use drugs," he said. "This is an individual
tragedy and as a result it is a social crisis" ... The strategy is based
on ... reducing public tolerance for drug use, White House drug policy
director John Walters said in an interview. ... The report comes two
months after Walters was confirmed for the Cabinet-level post over the
objections of some top Democrats. A protege of former drug policy director
William Bennett, Walters was seen as being more focused on punishing
traffickers and fighting drugs abroad than in helping drug users through
treatment programs. Walters' critics say he's done nothing so far to prove
them wrong. "It's drug war on autopilot. It's not anything any different
than what we've seen," said William McColl of the Drug Policy Alliance ...
McCall also criticized the White House's anti-drug advertising campaign,
which was unveiled during the Super Bowl. The campaign's message is that
money used to buy drugs may benefit terrorists. "He's barely gotten going
and he's already blaming America's teen-agers for terrorism," he said ...
Bush's proposed budget for 2003 includes $19.2 billion in anti-drug
spending, 2 percent increase over this year. He wants $644 million for the
Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, which encourages drug-prevention among
young people and $731 million to fight drug trafficking in the Andes...
[AP]

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2002

POLICY ALTERNATIVES FROM THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM. Former vice president Al
Gore said tonight there should be "a final reckoning" with Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein's regime in the war on terrorism, but that military power
alone will not eliminate conditions that have bred terrorism in the
Islamic world. In a carefully worded speech, Gore praised President Bush
for putting Iraq, Iran and North Korea on notice in the next phase of the
campaign on terrorism. But he also gently chided the administration not to
slip into a go-it-alone attitude as the war spreads from Afghanistan to
other targets. The speech, delivered at the Council on Foreign Relations,
marked Gore's first significant policy address since losing the 2000
presidential campaign to Bush. Over the next few months he plans other
speeches as he reenters the public arena and weighs another bid for the
presidency in 2004. Tonight, Gore saluted Bush's handling of the war on
terrorism so far and embraced his former rival's description of Iran, Iraq
and North Korea as an "axis of evil." "As far as I'm concerned, there
really is something to be said for occasionally putting diplomacy aside
and laying one's cards on the table," he said. "There is value in calling
evil by its name." Iraq, he said, still represents "a virulent threat, in
a class by itself." Noting that he had supported the resolution
authorizing Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, to go to war
against Iraq in 1991, Gore said the decision to end that war with Hussein
still in place was one that "we all had reason to deeply regret for the
ensuing decade." Eliminating Hussein's regime, he said, should be an
option in the next phase of the war on terrorism. But he said that, if the
United States decides to use force to eliminate the Iraqi regime, "Failure
cannot be an option, which means that we must be prepared to go the
limit." Gore also said the administration must avoid potentially
catastrophic consequences of going after Iraq, from instability in
Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to an escalation of violence in the
Middle East to the potential shattering of the international coalition
assembled since the attacks of Sept. 11. Gore's posture puts him in line
with several other Democrats who also are contemplating a 2004
presidential campaign, including his 2000 running mate, Sen. Joseph I.
Lieberman (Conn.) and Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) ... Gore depicted Iran as
an even more dangerous challenge than Iraq ... He noted that the Iranians
have flight-tested longer-range rockets and "loaded up at least one
merchant ship with a cargo of death for Israel." [WP]

US DESTABILIZES CHAVEZ. Venezuela's currency has plummeted almost 25% to
about 990 bolivars to the dollar after the government scrapped
five-year-old exchange rate controls. President Hugo Chavez made the
surprise decision to scrap the bolivar's trading band, on Tuesday. The
currency has been under increasing pressure as the international financial
markets showed their disapproval of recent government policies. [I.E., AS
THE US AND THE BIG BANKS ATTACK AS THEY DID IN CHILE AND ELSEWHERE]
Venezuela's foreign reserves have dropped by £6bn since November to £13bn,
largely due to propping up the currency. The director of the Venezuelan
Central Bank has said the bank would not spend any more of its foreign
reserves to shore up the bolivar. "The central bank is not going to risk
any more of its foreign reserves to feed capital flight," Central Bank
Director Domingo Maza told local television. By allowing the currency to
float freely, Mr Chavez has abandoned his government's attempts to
engineer a controlled devaluation of the bolivar. The capital flight has
been partly driven by Venezuela's volatile political situation, and also
demands from business groups for a devaluation to boost domestic and
foreign demand for Venezuelan goods. The floatation is expected to stoke
inflation to levels that Venezuelans, 80% of whom live in poverty, can ill
afford. One of Mr Chavez's chief policy aims was to tame inflation, which
ran at 10% in 2001. The economy has been deteriorating, as falling
international oil prices slowed down an economic boom, and there have been
large-scale anti-Chavez strikes. Oil is Venezuela's main export. It is the
biggest supplier of oil to the US. [NB - I THINK THAT'S NOT GENERALLY
KNOWN] ... President Hugo Chavez said the move was necessary to "improve
the competitiveness" of Venezuela's exports which had been "buffeted by
low oil prices". On Tuesday, Mr Chavez also announced budget cuts of 7% to
tackle the deficit, which is expected to hit $8bn this year. [BBC]

LEAK OF THE WEEK -- PROBABLY NOT TO BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE. The Pentagon
and the CIA have begun preparations for an assault on Iraq involving up to
200,000 US troops that is likely to be launched later this year with the
aim of removing Saddam Hussein from power, US and diplomatic sources told
the Guardian yesterday. President George Bush's war cabinet, known as the
"principals committee", agreed at a pivotal meeting in late January that
the policy of containment has failed and that active steps should be taken
to topple the Iraqi leader. But, according to a US intelligence source
familiar with CIA preparations, the plans for a parallel overt and covert
war only landed on the president's desk in the past few days. "I will
reserve whatever options I have. I'll keep them close to my vest [AS SOON
AS I GET THIS PRETZEL GOO OFF OF IT]. Saddam Hussein needs to understand
that I'm serious about defending our country," Mr Bush said yesterday.
Since the principals committee decision, Colin Powell, the secretary of
state and the dove of the administration, has pointedly added his voice to
the calls for a "regime change". "We are looking at a variety of options
that would bring that about," he told the Senate budget committee. The
blueprint for a campaign against Iraq has evolved from a contingency plan
drawn up by the joint chiefs of staff that envisaged the use of a
200,000-strong US force, the bulk of which would invade from Kuwait.
However, it may be that the actual force used will be less numerous,
relying more on covert and special forces operations. Central Command has
already set up forward headquarters in the Gulf from which each of the
component services will be able to coordinate the war. The air force
headquarters (Afcent) is at the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
The army headquarters (Arcent) is in Kuwait, while the navy (Navcent) is
in Bahrain. Central Command's marine component (Marcent) is also expected
to move to Bahrain in the next few days, weeks after the main marine force
left Afghanistan. The US, Israel and Turkey were due to hold joint
exercises codenamed Anatolian Eagle this year, but in another sign of
accelerated preparations there will be three such exercises in the next
few months, based at the Turkish air force base at Konya. Once upgraded,
Konya could be used alongside Incirlik as a base for air strikes on
northern Iraq. The Pentagon's military planners are reported to have
agonised over the Iraq plan because of the significant risk that Saddam -
aware that unlike during the Gulf war his own life is at stake this time -
would use chemical and biological weapons against US troop concentrations
and Israel. The danger would be minimised by intensive bombing of missile
launchers, but the generals reportedly remain extremely concerned that the
risks cannot be eliminated entirely. The CIA's covert war would involve
arming and training Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and Shi'ite forces
in Kuwait [THESE ARE THE GROUPS THAT WE LEFT TO BE KILLED AT THE END OF
THE GULF WAR]. CIA trainers and special forces troops have already been
dispatched to Kuwait for that purpose, and may already have begun work.
Meanwhile, CIA and special forces will launch a campaign of sabotage and
information warfare in the next few months. The CIA puts very little faith
in the military capacity of the main opposition movement, the Iraqi
National Congress, but it has begun intensive consultations with INC
officials about the logistics of training and arming the movement's
supporters. The trigger could be the expected row over weapons inspections
in three months' time. America's allies are clinging to the hope that US
military action will be forestalled by Baghdad's acceptance of
unconditional and unfettered weapons inspections when the international
sanctions regime comes up for review at the United Nations in May.
However, Iraq's vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, said yesterday there
was no need for "spies" from the UN weapons inspection teams to return to
the country. A US state department official said he thought it very
unlikely that the Iraqi regime would be prepared to accept the stringent
programme of inspections the US will demand. As the American intelligence
source put it, the White House "will not take yes for an answer",
suggesting that Washington would provoke a crisis [NOT VERY IMAGINATIVE --
JUST WHAT WAS DONE BEFORE THE SERBIAN AND AFGHAN WARS]. He added that he
expected the war to begin soon after the May ultimatum. US allies in the
Middle East have been informed that a decision to attack Iraq has already
been taken, and diplomats from the region said yesterday they were
resigned to the inevitability of a war that may threaten the stability of
a string of Arab regimes. "It is a nightmare situation for us," said one
Arab diplomat in Washington. "We feel the Americans will take very drastic
action and we have to be prepared for such a reality. But the public
opinion in the street will not see this as a benign attempt to restore
order, but as American imperialism" [IMAGINE THAT]. France, Germany and
others in the European Union have been queuing up to make clear to Mr Bush
that they will not support him in military action against Iraq. The German
foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, this week joined the French foreign
minister, Hubert Védrine, by expressing publicly his concern about US
policy towards Iraq. [GUARDIAN]

TWO BUSINESS PARTIES. Enron's directors now admit that "off-the-books"
partnerships were used to inflate the energy giant's earnings by as much
as $1 billion. Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron chief executive, says he
had no idea that anything untoward was going on at the now-bankrupt
company ["HERE ARE YOUR WINNINGS, SIR" -- CASABLANCA]. Four other senior
Enron execs, including former Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who
devised the partnerships, refused to discuss the matter at congressional
hearings on grounds that their testimony might incriminate them. And, as
of yesterday, Mr. Enron himself, former Chairman Ken Lay, also pleaded the
Fifth, thus avoiding tough questions about his role in the biggest
corporate meltdown in US history ... Cooked books, shredded documents,
shady auditors, offshore accounts, declarations of ignorance or a refusal
to testify -- Enron's bigwigs couldn't be behaving more like mobsters if
they tried. Lay's decision to keep mum was especially strange, bordering
on the ludicrous. "I am deeply troubled about asserting these rights," he
said. "It may be perceived by some that I have something to hide." Gee,
why would anyone think that? Might it be that Enron's own directors found
evidence of "a systematic and pervasive attempt by Enron's management to
misrepresent the company's financial condition"? Might it be that William
Powers, the Enron director who led the company's internal probe, concluded
that Lay "bears significant responsibility for those flawed decisions, as
well as for Enron's failure to implement sufficiently rigorous procedural
controls to prevent the abuses"? ... Lay said he turned down an earlier
invitation to testify -- thus forcing Congress to subpoena him -- because
he was afraid the congressional hearings would be too prosecutorial. I can
see how that would be a concern. Congress is only looking into allegations
of gigantic corporate fraud and a suspected conspiracy to fleece Enron's
shareholders, including thousands of the company's own employees. It's
already clear that Fastow, the former CFO, was the architect of the
partnerships that led to Enron's demise. We know, too, that he profited
handsomely from his scheme ... Maybe if Lay had agreed to speak yesterday,
he would have explained Enron's actions much as he defended the company's
behavior during California's energy crisis. When I asked him whether Enron
had taken the state to the cleaners by exploiting its vulnerability, Lay
countered that his company was only doing what everyone else was doing.
"We had nothing to do with creating the problem," he told me. "Everyone
played by the rules." ...former President George Bush [made millions]on
Global Crossing shares [NOW 4TH LARGEST BANKRUPTCY IN US HISTORY] ...
Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also did
spectacularly well with the stock. McAuliffe invested $100,000 in Global
Crossing and saw that stake balloon to $18 million after the company went
public. He cashed out shortly thereafter. "If you don't like capitalism,"
McAuliffe said in his defense, "move to Cuba or China"... [DAVID LAZARUS,
SF CHRONICLE]

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