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'Now I have a president.' By Habib Haddad in the pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat

"If the government had imposed a one per cent tax on the stock exchange dealings, it would have garnered more money than that it reaped from increasing the price of gasoline." -- Ahmed El-Sayed El-Naggar, Sawt Al-Umma

"The heresies which Bush uttered in Sharm El-Sheikh, and which bordered on obscenity, demonstrate [his] arrogance." -- Mohamed El-Saadani, Al-Ahram

wondered "Why did Qatar succeed in solving the Lebanese crisis while Egypt failed?" -- Abdallah El-Sennawi, Al-Arabi

"Would it not be wiser for the United States and Israel to isolate Iran from its regional environment by winning the Arabs to their side through the two-state solution?" -- Maamoun Fandi, Asharq Al-Awsat

"Bush might seem like a lame duck president but he can turn into a lame hawk able to bloody his adversaries." -- Abdul-Rahman Al-Rashed, Asharq Al-Awsat

"In the troubled, conflict-ridden Middle East, President Bush has done everything wrong." -- Patrick Seale, Al-Hayat