Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Posted here Wednesday, June 02, 2004 at 12:47:46 PM     This headline gets it right. The cost is the cost of alternatives, and defining a new war is not what most of us wanted to live in. In this case we had a choice. Not appeasment, but reasonableness would gradually attrite the drawing power of terror, just as reactive violence will renew it. Tar baby... didn't anyone read? Bush outlines ideology of war From correspondents in Air Force Academy, Colorado June 3, 2004 http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9731783%255E1702,00.html US President George W Bush, preparing new Air Force officers for war, cast the fight against terrorism as a struggle between freedom and tyranny similar to World War II and the Cold War. "Our goal, the goal of this generation, is the same," Bush said today, after referring to World War II. "We will secure our nation and defend the peace through the forward march of freedom." Bush told 981 graduates that they will be joining a war whose central front is Iraq. "Each of you receiving a commission today in the United States military will also carry the hopes of free people everywhere," the president said.   ********

Posted here Wednesday, June 02, 2004 at 7:22:55 AM     Interesting to compare the lists Democrats Roosevelt Truman Kennedy Johnson Carter Clinton Republican Eisenhower Nixon Reagan Bush Bush ********