The U.S. detains Iraqi nationals and asylum seekers in U.S. cities.
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Precedent Bush.
The slippery-slope argument in international relations.
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Howard Dean, on the eve of war.
“In a country devoted to the freedom of debate and dissent, it is every citizen’s patriotic duty to speak out, even as we wish our troops well and pray for their safe return.”
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About those lies…
Before we get lost in the fog of war, let’s take a moment to review some of the untruths offered by the Bush administration.
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Arrogant empire.
“Should the guiding philosophy of the world’s leading democracy really be the tough talk of a Chicago mobster?”
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Conservatism’s folly.
Conservatism “has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy.”
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Shut down the ‘shut down’ movement.
It’s a tantrum, not a long-term antiwar strategy.
”Tony Blair always leaves you with the impression that for him the Iraq war is just one hammer and one nail in an effort to do tikkun olam, to repair the world.“
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Neither gung-ho nor antiwar.
Joseph Nye evaluates the merits of Bush’s war plan.