Just heard excerpt of Bush's speech on CNN: "Interventionism"

[EVDebs]

Bush's promotion of liberty overseas, since US liberty depends more and more on liberty overseas, seems to me to be a new doctrine of Interventionism based upon US determination of whether a country has enough liberty.

Seems like he should read Washington's Farewell Address and rethink his position !

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Bush... Read?

surely you jest.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. There are only three times in the past four years

He's laid his hands on a book.

And one of those was about a pet goat.

[Misskittycat]

2. It's not new - it's the neocon dream stated more emphatically n/t

[Sydnie]

3. Farewell speech?

Didn't Bush just get paraded by Washington's Inaugural speech the other day. Can't expect him to read two things in the same year can you? Sheesh! </end sarcasm>

[hector459]

4. This was surely a dangerous message from a dangerous man.

I do not believe that the rest of the world, including existing democracies, will take kindly to these words. He has learned nothing and it appears that America has learned less. The rest of the world has to be thinking that pre-emption is in order. Whether or not the pre-emption is military (which I think it will not be) remains to be seen. But we can be brought to our kness in so many ways, socially and economically. I think Bush is more dangerous to the US than al-qaeda.

[EVDebs]

6. Dems can assert their power in Congress as a check/balance with

the War Powers Act of 1973. Fabrications are no excuse to go to war with, and the six months reviews etc reportings must be made more vigorous. We have no idea of the Iraq exit strategy and now Bush is tweaking with Iran, Syria, No. Korea, etc., etc.

Our internal liberty IS NOT dependent upon liberty overseas ! Washington's Farewell Address shows us this; the good Lord gave the US plenty of resources and commonsense. WE are the guarantors of our own liberty and Bush's address doesn't grasp that simple fact.

There are many ways to get to energy independence, Bush is playing interventionist games since it is the easy way out for BIG OIL.