Robin Cook on Bush's coronation in this morning's Guardian

[McKenzie]

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The contrasts between this uninhibited triumphalism and the real world are as wide as the American continent. One visible contrast was provided by the demonstrators camping out on the streets to protest at such extravagant waste by an administration waging its own jihad on programmes against poverty on the grounds that the federal budget cannot afford welfare. Yesterday, Bush gave a new spin on welfare cuts by presenting them as progress to an ownership society. The thousands of wealthy donors to the campaign to re-elect the president who turned up at those dinners adore this concept of an ownership society in which they get hefty tax cuts paid for by the poor who get their budgets cuts.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1395463,00.html

[neweurope]

1. An excellent commentary.

"Freedom and liberty are universal values. The founding fathers of the US constitution, admirable though they may have been, do not hold patent rights over those concepts. They are embedded in the roots of the separate tradition of European social democracy and we must not let George Bush appropriate them to provide an ideological cover for his new imperialism." Indeed.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[xchrom]

2. yup.

well said.

[WritersBlock]

3. I have tons of respect for Robin Cook. n/t

[NewJeffCT]

4. cook is the one that wrote those books about megaviruses, right?

Or, is this a different person?

[McKenzie]

5. not sure about that, he might have done. n/t

[outraged2]

6. Different person

He was the leader of House of Commons who resigned his post over the decision to go to war in Iraq.

http://www.robincook.org.uk/cook/robin.htm