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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush
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To: bentway who wrote (40998)8/21/2005 3:09:04 PM
From: CalculatedRisk  Read Replies (2) of 93284
 
Another conservative at the National Review "get[s] off the bus". I prefer "deserting the sinking Bush ship".

Andrew McCarthy writes:

"For what it’s worth, this is where I get off the bus. The principal mission of the so-called "war on terror" – which is actually a war on militant Islam – is to destroy the capacity of the international network of jihadists to project power in a way that threatens American national security. That is the mission that the American people continue to support.
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Now, if several reports this weekend are accurate, we see the shocking ultimate destination of the democracy diversion. In the desperation to complete an Iraqi constitution – which can be spun as a major step of progress on the march toward democratic nirvana – the United States of America is pressuring competing factions to accept the supremacy of Islam and the fundamental principle no law may contradict Islamic principles.

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... even if I suspended disbelief for a moment and agreed that the democracy project is a worthy casus belli, I am as certain as I am that I am breathing that the American people would not put their brave young men and women in harm’s way for the purpose of establishing an Islamic government. Anyplace."

McCarthy's emphasis.
corner.nationalreview.com
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