Village voice: Bush's war plan is scarier than he's saying

[jbfam4]

The Widening Crusade
by Sydney H. Schanberg



http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/schanberg.php


If some wishful Americans are still hoping President Bush will acknowledge that his imperial foreign policy has stumbled in Iraq and needs fixing or reining in, they should put aside those reveries. He's going all the way—and taking us with him.



In effect, George Bush says, believe in me and I will lead you out of darkness. But he doesn't tell us any details. And it's in the details where the true costs are buried—human costs and the cost to our notion of ourselves as helpers and sharers, not slayers. No one seems to be asking themselves: If in the end the crusade is victorious, what is it we will have won? The White House never asked that question in Vietnam either.


A five-year military campaign. Seven countries. How far has the White House taken this plan? And how long can the president keep the nation in the dark, emerging from his White House cocoon only to speak to us in slogans and the sterile language of pep rallies?

[StephNW4Clark]

1. Remember the Axis of Evil?

It all started from there.

[dweller]

2. a request

is there a simple print edition of this article offered by Village Voice?
i've tried to download this from the link several times here, and from the previous LBN thread, but it will not load.
may be too many ads, or pics on the php page?

if there is a print only issue, please link it.
thanks

dp

[jbfam4]

3. print issue request

http://www.villagevoice.com/print/issues/0342/schanberg.php

[dweller]

4. thanks, but

that doesn't work either, i finally opened it in composer. That ugly ass picture of *moron must have been too much for my old beater to handle.

dp