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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (21592)	3/16/2003 4:05:56 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 25898

Bush's presidency By Jolyon Ticer-Wurr Commentary The Chicago Tribune Published March 15, 2003 Chicago -- What kind of president would use a tragedy on the scale of Sept. 11 to whip the United States into a war posture against Iraq? What kind of a president would seek to whip a nation into indignant war fury with a set of fantastical strategic justifications that change weekly? What kind of a president would thrust the United States into the embrace of a radical new policy of pre-emptive war even when that war may kill tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children, as well as many of America's sons and daughters? What kind of a president would have his henchman engage in name-calling and national belittlement when decent and respectable representatives of other countries long allied with the U.S. balk at the warmongering hysteria? What kind of a president would use threats of economic punishment against small and desperately poor African nations in order to gain their acquiescence to a Security Council vote to unleash bloody attacks on another nation? What kind of a president would take a legalistic, non-popular-vote election victory and use it as a mandate to move a fringe element of foreign policy ideologues to the center of U.S. foreign policymaking? A president who is the antithesis of American democratic ideals. A president who is a dangerous demagogue. The good citizens of the United States of America must resist with all their democratic might. Copyright © 2003, Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com