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March 20: Game Time!
April, 2003: Iraq really is about 911. Read J.M.Marshall's excellent depth analysis of the hawks' grand strategy... "Practice to Deceive"(Washington Monthly) And this excellent piece, from the editor of Business Week, on the accumulating impacts of the Bush foreign policy. And this, From The South Asian Analysis Group, on: "Iraq: The Make-Believe and the Real War" March 2003: U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation The following is from John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. "... I am resigning because I have tried and failed to reconcile my conscience with my ability to represent the current U.S. Administration. I have confidence that our democratic process is ultimately self-correcting, and hope that in a small way I can contribute from outside to shaping policies that better serve the security and prosperity of the American people and the world we share..." (Read the complete letter...)3/11: A second US diplomat resigns...more- 3/20: Third diplomat resigns.. more... Floor of The Senate: Sen. Robert Byrd: Arrogance of Power "Today I weep for my country.I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. "Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam Hussein, we seem to have isolated ourselves. We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many. We say that the United States has the right to turn its firepower on any corner of the globe which might be suspect in the war on terrorism. We assert that right without the sanction of any international body. As a result, the world has become a much more dangerous place. ...." (Read the full March 19 speech ) (Byrd's Feb 12 Senate Speech) The U.S. Needs to Open Up to the World- Brian Eno To this European, America is trapped in a fortress of arrogance and ignorance "... 'You're either with us or against us' is the kind of cant you'd expect from a zealous mullah, not an American President. When Europeans make such criticisms, Americans assume we're envious. "They want what we've got," the thinking goes, "and if they can't get it, they're going to stop us from having it.""But does everyone want what America has? Well, we like some of it but could do without the rest: among the highest rates of violent crime, economic inequality, functional illiteracy, incarceration and drug use in the developed world. President Bush recently declared that the U.S. was "the single surviving model of human progress." Maybe some Americans think this self-evident, but the rest of us see it as a clumsy arrogance born of ignorance." (Read Eno's complete letter ...) "My American friends, you know I love your country, how have we come to this?..." - "Bin Laden's Victory" by Richard Dawkins... (more...) Turkey: Up Yours! (Times UK):
"...Ordinary Turks were incensed by US media references to haggling in a carpet shop and by what they saw as insulting American behaviour.
"We should not march into Baghdad... "To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability." "A World Transformed", 1998 by George Bush Sr. ...More... Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate, as Long as They Fear.. " This phrase, now quoted regularly among the most militant denizens in the White House, means, "Let them hate us so long as they fear us." It was penned by Lucius Accius, the Roman poet (170 B.C.), and was said to be a favorite phrase of the emperor Caligula." Paul Krugman ...More... UBL: "The Skin is Off the Wolf" "They destroyed the idols of America, struck at the very heart of the Defence Department and hit the black heart of the US economy...with the destruction of the twin towers in New York, there occurred an even bigger destruction: that of the great American dream and legend of democracy... These attacks took the skin off the American wolf..." -Usama BinLaden, Feb 2003 (read further excerpts...) "Our worry is the new emerging fundamentalism in the United States and in the West. Fundamentalism in our region is on the wane. There, it's in the ascendancy. That's the threat." -Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, Feb 2003 "...a fair number of people in the Treasury Department, the State Department and, yes, the Pentagon - don't just question the competence of Mr. Bush and his inner circle; they believe that America's leadership has lost touch with reality." - Paul Krugman NYT 3/14 (...more...) "There is only one reason that I am in the Oval Office and not in a bar. I found faith. I found God." -George W. Bush 
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"Europeans still enjoy free health care for all, cradle to grave; free education through university level; comparatively generous retirement for their elderly; an average of five weeks paid annual vacation, more sick leave, parental leave, and a shorter work week with comparable wages for their workers (French workers, with their 35-hour work week, work nearly a full day less per week than American workers, who now work on average 42 hours per week). Social spending in Europe runs some 50 percent above that in the United States. Environmental, food safety and labor laws are the envy of activists in the U.S. " more |
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