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To: bentway who wrote (213291)	1/17/2007 10:00:19 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

When we gave Presidents this power, it wasn't imagined that a sociopath would wield it. What a load of crap.....

To: bentway who wrote (213291)	1/17/2007 10:57:14 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

"No one knows what Bush will do. He's a loose cannon -" Not so loose or unpredictable ... Although US policy in Iraq since the early 90s could be described as confusing or evolving, there are a few consistent themes that transcend administrations. It has been believed by recent administrations that Iraq holds the key to making progress in the spread of liberal freedoms that support free market economies, lifestyles which afford personal autonomy, free trade, liberty, etc. With the globalization of these issues, administrations have viewed regions or states that create gaps in liberal globalization as wholly oppositional or strategically threatening to an internationally secure environment. A Saddam led Iraq was particularly problematic in this resolve, even being termed as an axis of evil. “And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them.” - President Bill Clinton, December 1998 . President Bill Clinton described Saddam Hussein-led Iraq as participating in an “unholy axis’ “The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.” – President George W. Bush, November 2003; President George W. Bush furthered the sentiment labeling a Saddam led Iraq to be part of an “Axis of Evil”. In his 1994 State of the Union Address President, President Bill Clinton made the bold proclamation that “democracies don’t make war with each other” and that U.S. foreign policy must drive to increase the zones of democratic peace. President George W. Bush repeated this rhetorical tone declaring that “success in Iraq would also begin a new stage for Middle Eastern peace” and that "we will extend the peace by encouraging free and open societies on every continent.” The push for globalization resulting in world peace is founded on common sense and pushed by such noble philosophers as Immanuel Kant who described a regime of Perpetual Peace, which would be won when three conditions are met: 1) the existence of a federation of republic states, 2) The states are economically independent, 3) the states are bound by international law. This becomes a Democratic peace ideal achieved in part by engaging in brief low level conflicts with gap regions.