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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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 Saturday, 20 April 2002
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Canadian support for war wavers -- The Washington Times: "While many Canadians praised the country's armed forces for defending freedom, some called on Ottawa to pull its 3,000 soldiers out of Afghanistan.
"We didn't cause this mess," said Dan Dagger, a resident of Alberta, where the dead soldiers were based. "It's the foreign policy of the Americans that caused this mess in New York and Afghanistan. Let the Americans deal with the problem by themselves." "
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Grief, anger as families await return of dead Canadian soldiers
The grim realities of war have hit home for the families of the four
Canadian soldiers killed in a friendly fire accident in Afghanistan.
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[CBC News]
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Friendly fire report to be completed by June
A report on the friendly fire tragedy in Afghanistan is scheduled to be
delivered to the prime minister by the end of June. And an interim
report is to be completed within three weeks, Defence Minister Art
Eggleton said Friday.
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[CBC News]
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Guardian Unlimited | Chemical coup d'etat: The US wants to depose the diplomat who could take away its pretext for war with Iraq: "On Sunday, the US government will launch an international coup. It has been planned for a month. It will be executed quietly, and most of us won't know what is happening until it's too late. It is seeking to overthrow 60 years of
multilateralism in favour of a global regime built on force." The Jews and the Palestinians in the Middle East, Canadian and American soldiers in Afghanistan . . . people are dieing because Bush wants to take care of his daddie's unfinished business. Watch the bully at work.
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