<<< ... All the Democratic candidates for President, except the minor ones, are calling for "nation-building" in Iraq: Dean, Kerry, Clark, and Lieberman all support the continued presence of U.S. troops. This is seen as a Republican war, yet the Democrats – with the exception of Dean – all supported it, and voted for it, handing the President a blank check. They're whining now that he's written in the sum of $87 billion, but that's just nitpicking: both parties agree on the policy.
Yet Americans do not agree: according to a recent Newsweek poll, the majority, 49 percent, disapprove of Bush's war. Americans are evenly split on our new foreign policy of perpetual bellicosity: 45 percent approve while 44 percent do not.
Who represents the dissenters? They are locked out of the political system, ignored by both major political parties, and without a voice in Washington ... >>>
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