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Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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- THE E.COLI LOOPHOLE
- WHY NOT HEALTH CARE FOR ALL?
- BOOTING BUSH'S BUDDIES
- VIDEO: Voting with your dollars
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BOOTING BUSH'S BUDDIES
Whew--it's getting lonelier and lonelier at the top for George W, as his "Coalition of the Willing" buddies keep getting bumped off.
In country after country, warmongering heads of state who joined in Bush's Iraq disaster are being rejected by the home folks. Jose Maria Aznar lost in Spain, Silvio Berlusconi was defeated in Italy, Tony Blair was booted in England, and now John Howard has been tossed out as prime minister of Australia. The Coalition of the Willing has become a Coalition of the Defeated!
Howard's loss was especially galling for Bush, for he had traveled all the way down under in September to campaign for the Aussie PM. Calling Howard a "man of steel," George tried to bolster his campaign with rosy reports of progress in their shared war, even declaring at one point, "We're kicking [butt] in Iraq."
Apparently, Bush is even less credible there than he is here, for it was Howard's butt that got kicked. His Liberal party received its worst election thrashing in its 63-year history, and Howard suffered the added humiliation of losing his own district--the first time since 1929 that an Australian PM has been voted out both as head of state and as a member of Parliament. It was a total meltdown for the man of steel.
To add to Bush's pain at losing his "steadfast" ally, the guy who administered the butt-kicking, Labor party leader Kevin Rudd, not only campaigned against the war but also announced that he would withdraw all Australian troops from Iraq by July of next year.
That's four heads of state down--and Bush to go--before we bring all of the troops home.