Sorry for top-posting, but:
This is probably what's behind Rove's departure. He's likely been
arguing the political ramifications, while Cheney and Bush have said
screw the political ramifications, it's America's destiny.
Rove couldn't accept that, and bailed.
Bush has said that he would make sure that the next president would
not be able to extracate the US from it's destiny in the region.
Signater@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/?pid=223742
>
> Kucinich Sounds the Alarm
> John Nichols
>
> Dennis Kucinich may not be a front runner in the race for the Democratic
> presidential nomination.
>
> But the congressman from Cleveland has succeeded in distingui****ng
himself
> from the other contenders when it comes to speaking those truths that
are
> self-evident.
>
> And in an era of mass delusion and denial on the party of leaders in
both
> major political parties, stating the obvious can be a radical act.
>
> Such is the case with Kucinich's appropriate answer to the latest move
by
> the Bush-Cheney administration to ramp up hostilities with Iran. That
> move -- the unprecedented attempt to label Iran's 125,000-strong
Republican
> Guard as a "specially designated global terrorist" group -- is, as the
> congressman says "nothing more than an attempt to deceive Americans into
yet
> another war -- this time with Iran."
>
> No one who has paid even the slightest attention to the Bush-Cheney
> administration's approach to Middle East affairs can doubt that Kucinich
is
> right. Yet, his is a lonely voice of clarity amid the din of Democratic
> obfuscation that aids and abets this White House's worst instincts.
>
> "The belligerent Bush Administration is using this pending designation
to
> convince the American public into accepting that a war with Iran is
> inevitable," argues Kucinich.
>
> "This designation will set the stage for more chaos in the region
because it
> undercuts all of our diplomatic efforts," he adds. explaining that,
"This
> new label provides further evidence for Iran's leaders that there is no
> point to engage in diplomatic talks with the United States if our
actions
> point directly to regime change."
>
> Delivering the response that should be coming from New York Senator
Hillary
> Clinton ?, Illinois Senator Barack Obama ? and especially from Delaware
> Senator Joe Biden, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
when he
> isn't campaigning for president, Kucinich argued that, "Our nation is
better
> served by demanding sensible and responsible diplomatic foreign policy
> initiatives from the Bush Administration."
>
> Kucinich, who has proposed impeaching Vice President Cheney for
continually
> prodding the country toward an unnecessary war with Iran, may not get
the
> political credit he deserves for calling out this administration. But
> history will recognize him as the man who sounded the alarm when the
Bush
> administration moved America closer to the brink of disaster.
>
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>
> John Nichols' new book is THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure
for
> Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it as a "nervy, acerbic,
> passionately argued history-***-polemic [that] combines a rich
examination
> of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is
> impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the
> most vital tool handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most
> basic liberties.'"
>
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