SOROS VS. BUSH

Sidney Morning Herald: Soros pledges $US15.5 million to oust Bush

George Soros, one of the world's richest men has given away nearly $US5 billion ($7 billion) to promote democracy in the former Soviet bloc, Africa and Asia. Now he has a new project: beating President George Bush.

"It is the central focus of my life," he said. The 2004 presidential race is "a matter of life and death".

Guardian: Soros Says Bush Reminds Him Of Nazis
"When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans," he said in yesterday's interview. "My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitised me."

George Soros, one of the world's wealthiest financiers and philanthropists, has declared that getting George Bush out of the White House has become the "central focus" of his life, and he has put more than $15m (£9m) of his own money where his mouth is.

Mr Soros argues that the Bush White House is guided by a "supremacist ideology" that is leading it to abuse US power in its dealings with the rest of the world, and creating a state of permanent warfare.