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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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| On the road to losing the peace : |
'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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 Tuesday, 12 July 2005
Iraq: An upside-down place  < 1:00:31 AM>. .
Jon Leyne reflects on what the US might have done to limit the scale of the insurgency in Iraq.
[Via BBC News | World | UK Edition]
"The clear implication is that a good part of this mess might have been prevented if the Americans had decided to keep the Iraqi army together, paid their pensions, and been less doctrinaire about getting rid of the Baathists after the invasion two years ago.
In other words, perhaps America's main job in Iraq at the moment is to correct the mistakes of the last couple of years."
Many nations grieve in melting pot of London (Reuters) < 1:00:25 AM>. .
"Beneath the headline in Britain's Daily Telegraph on Monday, a list of the missing from around the globe illustrated the deadly reach of last week's bomb attacks in London.
A waiter from France, an oil executive from Nigeria, an accountant from Mauritius, a tour guide from the United States, a dental technician from Romania, an Israeli who wanted to escape bombings in her homeland."
[Via Yahoo! News - World]
Salon.com: Why Karl Rove must go < 1:00:18 AM>. .
But none of that can change the fact that Karl Rove revealed the identity of a CIA agent in order to discredit criticism of the president's use of intelligence in the run-up to a war that has now claimed the lives of at least 1,755 Americans.
This is the man responsible for getting George W. re-elected. He committed treason.
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