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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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 Thursday, 21 March 2002
 < 11:40:51 PM>.
Afghanistan: U.S., Canadian Troops Reflect On Fighting In Operation Anaconda: "Close to 500 Canadian troops from the Princess Patricia light infantry battalion took part in Anaconda. One soldier, Corporal Landon Perry, described his feelings as he was shuttled by helicopter into the combat zone. "It was a little unnerving," he said. "But once you hit the ground and see the number of troops out there and the massive air support, your confidence builds pretty quickly, and you feel fairly secure in what you're doing.""
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Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Bush and Blair stand alone 'The recent US military operation, codenamed Anaconda, against al-Qaida and Taliban holdouts in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, involved a small number of troops from countries such as Norway and Germany. But theirs was a token presence, with the bulk of the fighting being done by Afghan and US forces.'
That's funny. Here in Canada we've been reading about how our soldiers were involved.
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Seeing Bush's Brains Despite Mangled Words: "Although he likes Mr. Bush and admires his impressive response to the Sept. 11 attacks, especially his ability to reflect the country's anger at the terrorists and determination to bring them to justice, Mr. Bruni describes Mr. Bush, in current parlance, as intellectually challenged. However attentive any of us were to Mr. Bush's limitations as a speaker and thinker, Mr. Bruni's recounting of Mr. Bush's verbal flubs will leave readers amused, astonished and maybe even a little depressed that someone so inarticulate could have become the nation's chief executive." There are some hilariously dim-witted quotes, even in the review. But the book seems to suggest that we not judge him just by his inarticulate utterings.
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