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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:29 AM
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"Bush Vow to Spread Freedom Raises Questions"
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has set forth an aggressive foreign policy to extend "freedom and liberty" through the world. In a second inaugural address that amounted to a state-of-the-world appraisal, Bush did not spell out how far he'd go to spread democracy, and where he'd draw the line.

Would he go to the mat, for instance, to bring democracy to China? To Iran? Or work to stop the recent backslide toward authoritarian rule in Russia? How hard will he press for women's rights and free elections in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt?

In a speech that made only passing reference to his domestic agenda and did not mention Iraq at all, the president said Thursday that "the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends" on advancing freedom abroad, even to "the darkest corners of our world."

For a president who campaigned for his first term decrying "nation building," Bush's words sounded like a call for more such international entanglements, even recalling the foreign activism of Democratic Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050121/D87OB1TG0.html

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Paleocon Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:32 AM
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1. Another opinion on the president's nation building plans...
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:34 AM
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2. Take a look at what Bush thinks
Freedom and Democracy are supposed to look like.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1516164

Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you.

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JimmyJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:43 AM
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3. And the price of that freedom and democracy: (graphic)
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 08:54 AM
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4. It should raise BIG RED SCREAMING FLAGS!!!
Look how his "speading freedom" has improved life for the people of Iraq and it's neighbors. He wants to go do exactly the same thing all over the place.
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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-05 09:08 AM
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5. PNAC... PNAC...
PNAC...

This is a huge .pdf but required reading.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
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