Madison Capital Times: What To Say About 2003

[Martin Eden]

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1231-02.htm

Editorial
What can be said about a year in which George Bush abandoned more than 200 years of American diplomatic and military precedent to launch what he acknowledged to be a pre-emptive war against a country that posed no realistic threat to the United States or to American interests?

What can be said about a year when the Bush administration poisoned relations between the United States and nations with which we have been our friends and allies since Revolutionary War times?

What can be said about a year when, as the nation's manufacturing industries stumbled under the weight of a record trade deficit, the Bush administration began negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement that promised to shutter even more U.S. factories and drive even more family farmers off the land?

What can be said about a year when even conservative jurists said the executive and legislative branches had gone too far in undermining civil liberties, environmental protections and corporate regulations?
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[Demeter]

1. Good riddance- & Better luck in 2004

[Red_Storm]

2. Good Riddance & No Bush In 2004

[Tadah]

3. are sanctions pre-emptive?

How come people don't complain about the Iraqi sanctions which killed at least 500,000 children, or more...

Aren't sanctions a form of pre-emptive war?