Todays email to my republican contacts:

Subject: I don't know which story is bigger? You decide!

Kerry on Bush and Deficit:
Only George W. Bush could celebrate over a record budget deficit of $422 billion, a loss of 1.6 million jobs and Medicare premiums that are up by a record 17 percent," Kerry said. "W stands for wrong -- the wrong direction for America."
The Congressional Budget Office projected this election-year's federal deficit will reach $422 billion, the highest ever

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/kerry.outsourcing.ap/index.html

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Tuesday, September 7, 2004 Posted: 7:19 PM EDT (2319 GMT)
U.S. death toll in Iraq passes 1,000

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four U.S. troops died in Iraq on Tuesday, bringing the total of Americans killed in the 18-month-old war to 1,002.

More than three-quarters of those killed, 756 of them, have died in combat, and 647 of those have been killed since President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq on May 1, 2003.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/09/07/iraq.main/index.html