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Ashcroft at the CFR. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)

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"Our fight, as President Bush noted, is not just America's fight, but it is the world's fight' declared Attorney General John Ashcroft during a February 10th address to the Council on Foreign Relations. Ashcroft boasted that the Bush administration has assembled a 90-nation coalition that shares "a commitment to the rule of law, supporting freedom of speech, religious tolerance, political democracy and equality between men and women.... We will either stand together to defend freedom or we will fall together to freedom's enemies."

Conspicuous on that list of supposed freedom-loving allies is Communist China. "I've had an opportunity to meet with dozens of foreign leaders to discuss ways to enhance our joint law enforcement capabilities.... Today alone, for example, I will meet with officials from two of the world's great powers, both China and Great ...

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