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| NYT Endorses Kerry for President: |
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"There is no denying that this race is mainly about Mr. Bush's disastrous tenure. Nearly four years ago, after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency, Mr. Bush came into office amid popular expectation that he would acknowledge his lack of a mandate by sticking close to the center. Instead, he turned the government over to the radical right."
"We look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted. Time and again, history invited George W. Bush to play a heroic role, and time and again he chose the wrong course. We believe that with John Kerry as president, the nation will do better." -- New York Times 17 Oct, 2004
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| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
'This nation is about to embark upon the first test of a revolutionary doctrine applied in an extraordinary way at an unfortunate time. The doctrine of preemption -- the idea that the United States or any other nation can legitimately attack a nation that is not imminently threatening but may be threatening in the future -- is a radical new twist on the traditional idea of self defense. It appears to be in contravention of international law and the UN Charter. And it is being tested at a time of world-wide terrorism, making many countries around the globe wonder if they will soon be on our -- or some other nation's -- hit list.'
-U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, Feb. 12, 2003
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'It was bad enough for the U.S. to have endured the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11; it's another thing to know that 18 months, billions of dollars and untold numbers of bombs later that Osama bin Laden and most of his top advisers remain on the loose. This failure ought to be thrown daily in Mr. Bush's face, but he has diverted attention to Iraq, where the United States is about to make a mistake of historic proportions.'
-Jeffrey Simpson in The Globe and Mail, 18 Feb 2003
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 Wednesday, 20 March 2002
 < 11:58:57 PM>.
Sept. 11 investigators arrest Ontario resident
A man from Sarnia, Ont., is custody in the United States, as authorities
try to determine if he has any connection to the terrorist attacks on
the World Trade Center in New York.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] 'Last Saturday, U.S. immigration officials lured Sarwer across the border to Port Huron, Michigan and promptly arrested him.'
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Salon.com People | Denis Halliday 'The U.S. somehow doesn't believe that international law applies to this great democracy, to this great empire. We've seen Mr. Bush reject various aspects of international law in the past year. That's a failure on the part of Washington to understand that the U.S. is in fact subordinate to the charter, to the declaration of human rights, to the Geneva Conventions and protocols -- all of which would protect Iraq, a sovereign state and member of the United Nations -- from further harassment, attacks and killings by the United States.'
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~Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror. Bush sends in 200 crack troops at a cost of $64m to tackle a few dozen militants. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The past six months have witnessed an extraordinary projection of US military power into a vast region dominated by Moscow for the past two centuries, installing American firepower at Soviet-built bases in four countries spanning a 2,000-mile arc from near the Chinese border to the eastern shores of the Black Sea.'
We're also talking about an area 300 miles from Iraq. An excellent article for background on the US movement into Georgia.
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