http://www.counterpunch.org/weiner05282003.html
A PNAC Primer How We Got Into This Mess By BERNARD WEINER
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So, a large part of our job in the run-up to 2004 is to get this information out to those able to hear it and understand the implications of an imperial foreign/military policy on our economy, on our young people in uniform, on our moral sense of ourselves as a nation, on our constitutional freedoms, on our constitutional freedoms, and on our treaty obligations -- which is to say, our respect for the rule of law. Nearly 40% of Bush's support is fairly solid, but there is a block of about 20% inbetween that 40% and the 40% who can be counted upon to vote for a reasonable Democratic candidate -- and that 20% is where the election will be decided. We need to reach a goodly number of those moderate (and even some traditionally conservative) Republicans and independents with the facts inherent in the dangerous, reckless, and expensive policies carried out by the Bush Administration.
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We don't need an emperor, we don't need huge tax cuts for the wealthy when the economy is tanking, we don't need more "pre-emptive" wars, we don't need more shredding of constitutional due process. Instead, we need leaders with big ideas who are capable of creative thinking. We need peace and justice in the Middle East (to help alter the chemistry of the soil in which terrorism grows), we need jobs and economic growth at home, and we need authentic and effective "homeland security" consistent with our civil liberties.
In short, we need a new Administration, which means that we need to get to serious work to make all this change happen. Organize!, organize!, organize!#
So, bottom line:
If 40% of the electorate is going to vote no matter what for the Republicans and their new brand of evil (PNAC), and 40% of the electorate is going to vote no matter what for the Democrats and their same old brand of evil, then according to him (the writer) or you (the poster), what recourse does that leave?
-- Ronn! :)
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-- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
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