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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 09:48 AM
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The similarities in rhetoric give me the creeps (re: Bush's speech)
A QUESTION OF VISION
Sherle R. Schwenninger, The Nation

Rather than pointing us in a more constructive direction,
much of the Democratic leadership is reinforcing a foreign
policy agenda that has divided us from the world.

http://www.alternet.org/story/26352 /

<snip>
Unchastened, the neoliberal wing of the party wants the Democrats to repeat this gambit by toughening their rhetoric and committing yet more resources to the fight against what they describe as Islamic jihadism. In a New Republic essay late last year, Peter Beinart called on Democrats to rediscover their "fighting faith" and to commit themselves to a new generational struggle against "Islamic fascism."

More recently, Blueprint magazine, the house organ of the Democratic Leadership Council, published a statement on national security, signed by leading Democrats, urging the party to "make winning the war against Islamic jihadism the party's first priority." The group's agenda--prosecuting the global "war on terror," democratizing the Middle East and increasing the military's ground forces--is echoed by likely Democratic presidential candidates, including Senators Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.

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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 09:50 AM
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1. Joe and Hillary make me sick
Edited on Thu Oct-06-05 09:50 AM by wtmusic
complete sellouts. I will work my ass off in '07 to keep her off the ticket.
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 10:16 AM
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2. so sick of the big bad tough guy routine
does our whole country suffer from testosterone poisoning? :shrugs:
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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 11:06 AM
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-05 10:19 AM
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3. Joe and Hillary are legends in their own mind.......
Don't care for them and would not vote for them and my platform is not winning the war against Islamic jihadism-screw that....
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