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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15025)	3/19/2003 5:10:45 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Our very own 1914, to be followed by our very own 1898 By Harold Meyerson* The American Prospect Web Exclusive 3.19.03 prospect.org <<...At all events, the battle lines over America's proper role in the world have been drawn. On one side are the neo-imperialists, who have relearned the lesson of 1914 that to deploy -- for the hegemon in a unipolar world -- is to go to war. On the other side are the fledgling neo-anti-imperialists, who should look back to their forebears of 1898 to learn how to assemble a broad movement -- and must do them one better if we are to curtail an administration determined to turn the world into a sullen American imperium...>> *Meyerson is political editor and columnist for the L.A. Weekly, the nation's largest metropolitan weekly, where he served as executive editor from 1989 through 2001. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy and American culture have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Statesman; the op-ed, commentary, and book review sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, and in numerous other publications.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15025)	3/19/2003 6:44:31 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Setback for the "Pump America Dry First" crowd Senate Rejects Bush's Arctic Drilling Plan story.news.yahoo.com <<...Development of the millions of barrels of oil beneath the 100-mile coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska has been a key part of President Bush's energy plan. However, environmentalists contend drilling there would jeopardize a pristine area valued for its wildlife. All but five Democrats voted against refuge drilling. There were eight Republicans who joined the Democrats in favor of barring oil companies from the refuge...>>

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15025)	3/19/2003 10:45:24 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

New low for "Free Markets". sg.biz.yahoo.com lurqer

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (15025)	3/20/2003 4:37:48 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Middle East democracy is a false hope By HUBERT G. LOCKE* SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER Thursday, March 20, 2003 seattlepi.nwsource.com <<...As to costs, quite beyond the several hundred billions of dollars taxpayers will have to shell out, this war will have cost us the respect and good will of countless millions of people across this globe. When this war is over, America will be remembered for the sheer arrogance with which we launched this military venture. We will be remembered for the hypocrisy with which the president of this country announced that Iraq's generals should "clearly understand that if they take innocent life . . . they will be held to account as war criminals" while American bombs fell on Iraqi civilians repeatedly and relentlessly. And this president will be remembered for not having the good sense of his father who, five years ago, wrote of his decision not to carry the war in Kuwait further into Iraq: "Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have . . . incurred incalculable human and political costs . . . We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, to rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other Allies pulling out as well . . . Furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post cold-war world. . . . Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different and perhaps barren outcome" (George H.W. Bush and Brent Scrowcroft, "A World Transformed")...>> *Hubert G. Locke, Seattle, is a retired professor and former dean of the Daniel J. Evans Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington.