Bush's Democracy Project

[NVMojo]

from the January 20, 2005 edition

Bush's Democracy Project

Forced by 9/11 to leave his critical view of "nation-building" behind, President Bush could easily use his Inaugural Address Thursday to quote Woodrow Wilson, that consummate advocate for US leadership in building up other nations and expanding democracy.
In the midst of World War I, just before sending US troops to help free Europe from German expansionism, the 28th president used his second inaugural to make this point about America's place in the world: "We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world." Then he added that all nations are "responsible" for maintaining world peace, including the "political stability of free peoples."

The idea of spreading freedom has waxed and waned in US history. Such an expensive undertaking requires dollars and lives that Americans may not want to give to help others. But President Bush has identified this goal as the main foreign-policy thrust of his second term. He now recognizes that democracy, because of the self-determination it provides, is the best guarantor for peace during a long campaign against Islamic terrorism.


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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0120/p08s02-comv.html

[Botany]

1. Take a look and you can see where he got his democracy project

http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Click on statement and look at the principal goals of the neo cons @ PNAC .....
the letter was written in 1997

Also take a look at the 1998 letter to President Clinton

And for fun find the Oct. 2000 article where they call for a "New Pearl Harbor,"
so as to galvanize the nation to have a war w/ Iraq.

BTW if he is really interested in democracy he could start in Ohio or Wyoming (106%
voter turn out)

Boxer made me proud! Do not give an inch to that little bastard.

LLBR

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