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To the Editor: 

The secret has been revealed that Reagan and Bush Sr. supported that “evil” Saddam Hussein while he was using poison gas weapons against his own people. 

Word has leaked that Ashcroft wants to set up internment camps for U.S. citizens deemed by him to be “enemy combatants” who criticize the regime. 

It's been uncovered that both Bush Jr's company, Harken, and Cheney's company, Halliburton, conducted the same kind of illegal stock and accounting manipulations that Enron, Anderson, and Martha Stewart did. 

Government reports indicate that more than 40 percent of the new, huge budget deficits are caused by Bush's tax give-away to the very rich. 

All of these revelations have come from a few republicans with enough wisdom to realize that the integrity of our government and our market system is the basis of their own personal wealth. My question is, “Why are the democrats so meek and quiet?” 

Bruce Joffe 

Piedmont