Newsday 3-16-04 The answer to terror is plain. James P. Pinkerton/Amazing

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"Are the Spanish cowardly for tossing out their pro-Iraq intervention government? Or are they wise?

Hawks in America were quick to embrace Spain in the wake of the terror bombings in Madrid last week. "We Are All Spaniards Now," proclaimed the lead editorial in The New York Sun. The goal of such punditry, of course, was to keep Spaniards - and Americans - from grasping the full downside of the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strikes on other countries, notably Iraq.
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Not exactly. What happened was that Spaniards went to the polls and rejected the PP's pro-Bush policy. Intervention in Iraq was a "disaster," declared newly elected Socialist leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
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Indeed, Americans might wish to study Spain's alternative approach to national defense. Voters here might wonder why it's a good idea to have 130,000 American troops in Iraq - while our own borders are sparsely monitored and our own rail system is wide open to terror bombing. And why does the Bush administration wish to spend $200 billion to "liberate" Iraq, but just $40 billion for the Department of Homeland Security this year?

Finally, Americans might ask themselves the most basic question of all: Has the invasion of Iraq really made the United States safer?"

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppin163709473mar16,0,4755338.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

Does anyone hear "ECHOES OF HOWARD DEAN"???, and from Pinkerton, no less!!!

[KoKo]

1. Excellent Article. Surprising from Pinkerton whom I thought was a Repug

apologist. Was I wrong about that? Seems I remember him on C-Span and CNN arguing for Conservative Values, etc.

If what I remember is correct about him, this is indeed a turning point for the Repugs attitude about Iraq in some quarters, at least. :shrug:

[Paradise]

3. you are correct

in everything you said. it is surprising, he is a repug apologist,
he's been on c-span, and cnn arguing for conservative b.s., etc., what you remember is correct, and it is indeed a turning point. i emailed him, and received a personalized thank you. his email address is [e-mail] should anyone wish to nurture.

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2. Pinkerton doesn't fit into the box

He definetly doesn't like Bush or the neo-cons. A few months ago, I e-mailed him about an article he had written and he wrote back with a surprising response. You would have thought it came from Eric Alterman.

[Paradise]

4. i had no idea,

and i love what i'm hearing from you. thanks for the insight.
serves me right for changing the channel, often, when i see a repug mug.

[Mixxster]

5. Is this the Jim Pinkerton...

from FOX Newswatch?

Edited to add: I see it is. Wow.

[Paradise]

6. thanks, i didn't know that affiliation. n/t

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7. Kick nt

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