Americans are concerned about four guns-for-hire killed in a war zone in Iraq - a war zone because the Americans were in the middle of an attack against the city of Falluja - and could care less that they are morally responsible for a massacre of massive proportions which is still going on in that same city. Sharon can continue to get away with his targeted assassinations because the general American racist assumption is that the lives of brown-skinned people are irrelevant to American interests.

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"Many people," says Cohan, "now realize that Bush could actually succeed in banning abortion. We've got to remind people of what life was like before, when women died from illegal abortions."

In addition to the administration's attempt to ban sex education and abortion, these are some of the "low profile" examples cited in the report:

-- Bush's budget would cut funding for emergency shelters, rape crisis hot lines and other domestic violence services.

-- The administration's political agenda has distorted scientific information. The National Institute of Cancer, for example, posted an inaccurate statement that abortion causes breast cancer.

-- A plan to privatize Social Security would particularly harm women workers, who generally earn less than men.

-- Budget and tax cuts will reduce or end services and programs needed by working mothers.

-- The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped cases challenging sex discrimination in employment.