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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (489743)	11/9/2003 3:55:55 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

PERFIDY, PERLE, PERFECT...... lewrockwell.com Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory by Karen Kwiatkowski Discusses the recent news about a possible back door effort to avert war that the ignominious Richard Perle squelched.

To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (489743)	11/9/2003 8:17:43 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Appealing to “Lew Rockwell” simply will not do here because he is quite a sloppy ideologue who simply gets most of the facts completely wrong on this issue as well as on many others; and those he gets right are rarely if ever arranged in any logically compelling manner. It is one thing to present established facts and link them to form a logically compelling argument. Corroboration is not needed here because each fact is already established by reason and so when properly arranged form a compelling whole. Lew Rockwell does no such thing. He trucks only in unsupported opinion and then lists a smattering of neo-confederate books to imply support. Surely tariff politics influenced the bad blood between North and South. But by 1850 the issue of central importance was slavery.,. Even the 1832 controversy, contrary to your apparent belief, was anchored in slavery. The 1832 Nullification Controversy concerned the belief that certain federal laws could be ignored by states, and was designed as a trial balloon to establish the Southern ability to nullify possible federal laws against slavery. So we cannot separate even the 1832 tariff controversy from slavery. “Calhoun developed the idea of nullification--first put forth in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798--as a strategy for the South to preserve slavery in the face of a Northern majority in Congress. His support of the measure, disclosed midway through his term, was not shared by President Jackson who feared nullification's power to split the Union. This difference of opinion permanently distanced the president and vice president." memory.loc.gov