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Monday, August 22, 2005

Bush's Option to Escalate the War in Iraq

In the Democratic Party's weekly radio address over the weekend, former senator Max Cleland said that 'it's time for a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy to get out.'

Cleland's statement may have been focus-group tested, but it amounts to another permutation of what Martin Luther King Jr. called 'the madness of militarism.' All the talk about the urgent need for a strategy to win in Iraq amounts to approval for more U.S. leadership in mass slaughter. And the United States government does not need a 'strategy' to get out of Iraq any more than a killer needs a strategy to stop killing.

This is a good point to remember when listening to certain politicians who are being billed as opposing the Iraq war.

Jack Clark 8:06 PM [+]   
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