From buzzflash: The 2000 GOP platform revisited

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Go to the link for the entire article, it's chilling.

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/06/far04018.html

Item 2: The 2000 GOP platform accused the Clinton administration of alienating America's allies

"The arrogance, inconsistency, and unreliability of the administration's diplomacy have undermined American alliances, alienated friends, and emboldened our adversaries."

Update: April 2, 2001, Handelsblatt: "Bush's Unilateralism Risks Alienating America's Allies"

". . . even Washington's European allies are losing confidence in cooperation with the United States.. . an alliance is a two-way street. The new Bush team needs to learn this before it is too late. "

Update: March 3, 2003, The Los Angeles Times: "The World Casts a Critical Eye on Bush's Style of Diplomacy"

"The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and China, all nations Bush hoped to count as allies in the confrontation with Iraq, have joined to resist the president's drive toward war, with complaints over what they see as American highhandedness. Even staunch allies such as prime ministers Tony Blair of Britain and Jose Maria Aznar of Spain have sent word to Bush that some U.S. bravado -- like Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's dismissal of 'Old Europe' -- has done more harm than good."

Update: May 8, 2004, The Age (Originally in the New York Times, by Thomas L. Friedman): "America is losing the war - and more"

"I have never known a time in my life when America and its president were more hated around the world than today. . . The Bush Administration needs to conduct a total overhaul of its Iraq policy; otherwise it is courting a total disaster for all Americans."

Item 3: The 2000 GOP platform chided the Clinton administration for not supporting the Iraqi National Congress, headed by Ahmad Chalabi

"The administration has used an arsenal of dilatory tactics to block any serious support to the Iraqi National Congress, an umbrella organization reflecting a broad and representative group of Iraqis who wish to free their country from the scourge of Saddam Hussein's regime."

Update: May 25, 2004, The Guardian: "US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war; Inquiry into Tehran's role in starting conflict; Top Pentagon ally Chalabi accused"

"An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress. . . Larry Johnson, a former senior counter-terrorist official at the state department, said: 'When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history. They persuaded the US and Britain to dispose of its greatest enemy.'"