Tim Michel responds to my Iraq multiple choice question:

“It is illegal, immoral, and criminal.

It has ended up killing and maiming millions of Iraqis we promised to free.

It has devastated a country and ignited world opinion against the United States and caused thousands of US casualties.

It has debased our media and turned much of it into a propaganda organ. However we should have an America First philosophy. We don’t have a global institution that ensures the rights of the global citizens, so we have to defend that country that does at least on the books have an institution that defends citizens rights. We need to pour over the writing of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay and the rest that contributed to the constitution as well as John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu. We need to understand what was right in their thinking and what was wrong and propose an improvement or adjustment to the American way of government as should have occurred over the last two centuries….”

NEW BOOK ON SELLING OF THE WAR
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E06EFDA1530F936A25753C1A9609C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print

DEAD AT 90: P.W. BOTHA, a.k.a, “The Great Crocodile,” the apartheid era State President of South Africa and strident defender of the old order.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/10/31/botha.obit.reut/index.html

NELSON MANDELA’S RESPONSE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6105036.stm

That’s all the news I can track this morning. Please share your items and comments.

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