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Iraq. Another extension of US hegemony. No I don't blame Bush personally, I blame the people around him. I cringe at the tought that the Reagan administration is still in power. They're the most regressive power concentration in the last century. What's interesting is that these same people, like Rumsfield, supported Saddam through his worst atrocities and when a popular movement tried to overthrow him, this administration suppressed the rebellion. Then we supported despots, like Marcos, in the Phillipeans(sp?) and the Panama. We are also currently supporting a dictatorship in Mexico and since NAFTA poverty has doubled and wages have been cut in half. I find it highly unlikely that this administration wants to end poverty and dictatorships when they endorse them right next door and even in the poorest communities in the US. Colin Powell has admitted that there was no connection to terrorists and the intelligence community has admitted there is no weapons of mass destruction. So, basically this war was a pile of poop.
Foreign Policy. I will, respectfully, disagree with Unne's assessment. Bad foreign policy can cause resentment amongst the world, particularly our 7.5 billion dollars per year to Israel.
Economy. Yes, those conditions are every President's direct responsibility. Treaties like NAFTA allow businesses to control profits directly for their benefit. Jobs are being shipped out but big business doesn't suffer a lick, neither do large banks and investors. A progressive administration would not allow a company to ship jobs out for their own profit. Keeping jobs here has tremendous benefits. Big companies get subsudized and put a mailbox in the caribbean to avoid taxes while the rest of us foot the bill of rising education and health costs. We should be subsidizing universities, the poorest public schools, and clinics. Instead, worldcomm gets a contract in Iraq for "wireless communications" and GE gets a very generous 10 billion dollar a year subsidy contract. Our whole society is being put on the market. If you're poor, you won't get an education, you'll die of curable disease and live in tremendous debt. The the past 4 administrations(including clinton) have supported such neoliberal policies.
Bush is wacky. As governor, he had the power to stop a mentally retarded person from being executed but choose not to. UGGGHHHH!
I'm for abortion until the beginning of the second trimester. That gives a woman plenty of time to decide. This is the only solution that seems reasonable to me personally.
I'm guessing you're referring to the Patriot Act. Well, 2 parts have been deemed unconstitutional already and other parts are being challenged in court. Being able to detain people without a judges's permission for an indefinite amount of time is a clear violation of civil rights. And then denying them legal counsel is worse. The Patriot Act was designed to lock down basic civil liberties, it does not deal with national security in anyway. A possible extension of the Patriot Act includes stripping people of their US citizenship without a trail! How does that deter terrorists who don't have citizenships?
You're right, most voters are stupid. That's why I'll never vote for a Democrate or a Republican.I personally always vote for the populist movement.
