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Bush's Lost Year
By deciding to invade Iraq, the Bush Administration decided not to do many other
things: not to reconstruct Afghanistan, not to deal with the threats posed by
North Korea and Iran, and not to wage an effective war on terror. An inventory
of opportunities lost by James Fallows
Why I will vote for John Kerry for President
By John Eisenhower John Eisenhower, son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, served on the White House staff between October 1958 and the end of the Eisenhower administration. From 1961 to 1964 he assisted his father in writing “The White House Years,” his Presidential memoirs. He served as American ambassador to Belgium between 1969 and 1971. He is the author of nine books, largely on military subjects.
We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore
How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk? By Garrison Keillor
Nothing But Lip Service for Our Soldiers
Army Times Editorial, June 30, 2003
Helen Thomas, who covered 8 Presidencies in 40 years as a member of the White House Press Corps, on the state of the American Presidency, as interviewed in "The Daily Breeze"
By Walter Cronkite
The Case Against George W. Bush
The son of the fortieth president of the United States takes
a hard look at the son of the
forty-first. By Ron Reagan
"This is the Fight of our Lives"
Bill Moyers' keynote speech at the Inequality Matters Forum, New York University:
By William Rood in the Chicago Times
There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago--three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those officers remain to talk about what happened on February 28, 1969. One was John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate who won a Silver Star for what happened on that date. William Rood was the other.
Predictions on the likely consequences of a second term for
President Bush.
By a panel of 16 writers in the Washington Monthly, September 2004
One Thousand Reasons to Vote: Top Ten
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