With his nationally televised speech tonight, President Bush is preparing a massive intensification of the criminal war in Iraq.Barely two months after midterm elections that were universally understood as a massive popular repudiation of this war, Bush is set to announce that he is ordering at least 20,000 more American combat troops into the country.
The dramatic shift in policy that is being unveiled by the administration is, even by the standards of American political history, without any real precedent. True,
Woodrow Wilson launched the US into the First World War after campaigning just a year earlier on the slogan, “He kept us out of the war.” And Lyndon Johnson, after campaigning as the “peace” candidate in 1964, presided over the massive escalation of the Vietnam War.
Yet, there is undeniably something new in the actions of this president. What is involved is not a potential war, but one that has been waged for nearly four years and explicitly rejected by the overwhelming majority of American people. (MORE)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/surg-j10.shtml
(For a better perspective, please click the cartoon by Khalil Bendib
http://www.bendib.com )
Please also see:
The Kucinich Plan for Iraq
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3051&blz=1
Cynthia McKinney: Articles of Impeachment Against Bush, Cheney, and Rice http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com
Woodrow Wilson launched the US into the First World War after campaigning just a year earlier on the slogan, “He kept us out of the war.” And Lyndon Johnson, after campaigning as the “peace” candidate in 1964, presided over the massive escalation of the Vietnam War.
Yet, there is undeniably something new in the actions of this president. What is involved is not a potential war, but one that has been waged for nearly four years and explicitly rejected by the overwhelming majority of American people. (MORE)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jan2007/surg-j10.shtml
(For a better perspective, please click the cartoon by Khalil Bendib
http://www.bendib.com )
Please also see:
The Kucinich Plan for Iraq
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=3051&blz=1
Cynthia McKinney: Articles of Impeachment Against Bush, Cheney, and Rice http://www.cynthiaforcongress.com