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3/12/2004; 13:28:49 |
| NYT Endorses Kerry for President: |
| "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 |
| Reckless Administration May Reap Disastrous Consequences: |
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'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 |
| On the road to losing the peace : |
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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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That's my feeling. Here's hoping it's not wishful thinking. Fired-Up Florida Turnout Could Favor Kerry  < 8:01:14 PM>. .In a turnout that seemed to favor Kerry, galvanized Floridians hit the polls in droves in hopes of avoiding a repeat of 2000 [Via MSNBC.com: Newsweek] U.S. voters face long lineups to cast... < 2:54:21 PM>. .Election officials reported long lineups as American voters began casting their ballots to decide who will be the next president of the United States, a race polls suggest is too close to call. [Via CBC News] This is good. The Republicans have got to be worried. 1,000,000 copies of Eminem's Mosh served by archive.org < 2:46:06 PM>. .Cory Doctorow: Eminem's poltical song "Mosh" has a get-out-the-vote video that's licensed for free Internet distribution, and is being distributed by Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive as well as many other places. Brewster sez, "he Eminem Mosh video is using up 400Mb/sec of our bandwidth in the US and about 200Mb/sec in EU. This means we have distributed about 1 million copies of that video. this is a record for us, and since it is available from several other places, this is probably a record for the net."
(Thanks, Brewster!) Indeed! Police punches, harasses photographer documenting FL elections < 10:55:48 AM>. .Xeni Jardin: In the Palm Beach Post:
A widely published investigative journalist was tackled, punched and arrested Sunday afternoon by a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who tried to confiscate his camera outside the elections supervisor's headquarters. About 600 people were standing in line waiting to vote early when James S. Henry was charged with disorderly conduct for taking photos of waiting voters about 3:30 p.m. outside the main elections office on Military Trail near West Palm Beach.Link (via politech) [Via Boing Boing] US extends troops' time in Iraq < 10:44:59 AM>. .Pentagon extends the tours of duty in Iraq for thousands of soldiers, as a car bomb kills five in Baghdad. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] Iraq Oil Pipelines Hit by Biggest Attacks Yet < 10:12:24 AM>. .BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saboteurs have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials said Tuesday. [Via Reuters: World] Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | This is not a vote about ideas. It comes down to the verdict of a divided nation on one man < 2:19:04 AM>. .Over the past five weeks I have not met one person who had a passionate word to say about Mr Kerry one way or the other. Though I don't doubt that some exist, the Democrats I have encountered are primarily motivated by their hatred of Mr Bush. "If they put up a vacuum cleaner against Bush we'd vote for it and just ask them to change the bag every now and then," quipped Gene Lyons, a columnist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Republicans are adversely galvanised by their love of Bush. "He stepped up to the plate and showed the world what we can do," said Chris Paxos, at a job centre in Canton, Ohio. This is not an election about platforms or ideas. It has brought the issue of who owns America and what its values should be into stark relief. But it cannot answer them.
Today will be a referendum on one man - George Bush - and his record. Whoever wins will do so by a narrow margin and inherit a deeply divided nation. But, legal challenges notwithstanding, that will be tomorrow's story. And nobody is looking that far ahead. Here's hoping he isn't called upon to appoint another president. Australian in Guantanamo Says on Brink of Madness < 2:05:00 AM>. .SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian terror suspect David Hicks, who has been held in Guantanamo Bay since 2001, says he is on the brink of madness because of his isolation and treatment. [Via Reuters: World] |
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