May 11, 2008

IMPEACH BUSH

IMPEACH CHENEY

LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR

War is an integral part of the history of the United States. It took a war to break away from Britain. We had a second war against Britain in the War of 1812. Then there were wars against Native Americans, a contrived war to steal territory from Mexico, the Civil War, and the bloody wars of the 20th century. The 21st century has given us the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and George W. Bush would really like a war against Iran. Former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev has observed that the United States seems to need war. This article by Walter C. Uhler is at www.smirkingchimp.com:

Mikhail Gorbachev is not a frivolous man. He was the Soviet leader who introduced the conceptual breakthrough of "mutual security" to Soviet-American relations, as well as the man who did more than any other individual to bring the Cold War to a peaceful conclusion . In my opinion, he ranks as the greatest statesman of the twentieth century (something I was able to tell him personally, when we talked in St. Petersburg, Russia in May 2006).

So, when Mr. Gorbachev says, "Every US president has to have a war," and "I sometimes have the feeling that the United States is going to wage war against the entire world," - as was reported by the Telegraph.co.uk on May 7, 2008 -- I take him seriously. More to the point, Gorbachev's assertions probably elicited widespread agreement, not only in Russia, but also across Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.