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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (27081)	10/4/2004 6:39:59 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

We all know how awful Bush is. But what really shocks me is how low the Democrats have sunk on issues opf war and peace. They are scarcely better than the Bushies. - In an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune published September 26, Democratic Senate candidate Barack Obama said he would favor the use of „surgical‰ missile strikes against Iran if it failed to bow to Washington‚s demand that it eliminate its nuclear energy program. Obama also said that, in the event of a coup that removed the Musharraf regime in Pakistan, the US should attack that nation‚s nuclear arsenal. Obama, the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, is being hailed as a „rising star‰ in the Democratic Party. In his Tribune interview, he said explicitly what is implicit in repeated statements by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and other party leaders. They have frequently attacked the Bush administration‚s policy in Iraq on the grounds that it is diverting attention from supposedly greater threats, in particular Iran and North Korea. . . Obama‚s statements underscore the Democratic Party‚s acceptance in principle of the „Bush Doctrine‰ of preventive war˜a doctrine that contravenes international law and provides a rationale for US military interventions against any country deemed an obstacle to US imperialist interests around the world. The African-American Democrat is being groomed for national leadership. His speech at the Democratic convention, a homily on hard work, individual responsibility and the American dream, would have been well received at a Republican convention not so many years ago. But in 2004, Obama is passed off as a „progressive‰ politician.