Dennis Kucinich
Score: 43 Agree
Iraq
Taxes
Stem-Cell Research
Health Care
Abortion
Social Security
Line-Item Veto
Energy
Marriage Disagree
Immigration
Death Penalty Barack Obama
Score: 42
Video Agree
Immigration
Taxes
Stem-Cell Research
Health Care
Abortion
Social Security
Line-Item Veto
Energy
Marriage
Death Penalty Disagree
Iraq Hillary Clinton
Sadly for Bush and Cheney, Greenspan decided to put prudence aside in his new book, The Age of Turbulence, and answer the most neuralgic issue of our times – why the United States invaded Iraq.
Greenspan writes:
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Everyone knows? Would that it were so. But it’s hardly everyone. Sometimes I think it’s hardly anyone.
This is a fear inspiring story, all too easy to imagine.
Carol Trainer could hardly process what was happening. To her, a
60-year-old grandmother and Vietnam veteran, of all people. On Memorial
Day, of all times. Arrested for protesting the war…
“He comes up to me and says, ‘Drop your sign,’” Trainer recalls. “I
said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘I told you to drop your sign.’ He grabbed it out
Well… it’s been a day – just like any other day. I wore black… biked to work… worked… biked home and walked in the park with Anita and Nova. A beautiful day. Nothing in my day to tie this date with six years ago… I was looking for it to come up.
Perhaps if I watched television more, or talked to strangers more… perhaps if I got out of my daily life and tried to make a change in the world which reflected my beliefs (such as they are)… perhaps if I didn’t live so comfortably I’d work to fix what seems obviously wrong with the world.
This is an excellent article, discussing the specific misunderstandings and mistakes made by the US government in response to the 911 attack on the WTC and Pentagon.
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward … and freedom will be defended.” In other words, George W. Bush thought that the reason the United States was attacked was that the attackers hated our freedom. How did he reach this conclusion?