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More Reasons to Vote For Kerry: No One Likes Bush

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October 30, 2004

Look, I know that my last political diatribe might not have been the most eloquent, despite my high ambitions for it. I was searching for a clip I couldn't find that would explain a lot of my sentiments on Bush's flip-flopping, but couldn't find it. Here it is, if you want to listen. (via Air America, I'm told) However, what I do want to point out is the fundamental reason that I don't like Bush: his own people don't like him. And they recognize that whatever the problems they may have with Kerry, it is absolutely true that "Bush has behaved like a caricature of what a right-wing president is supposed to be, and his continuation in office will discredit any sort of conservatism for generations." This comes from a conservative magazine. Conservative. Say it with me: his people don't trust him. More quotations below, but I hope you'll read the article in full. >To the surprise of virtually everyone, Bush has turned into an important president, and in many ways the most radical America has had since the 19th century. >[I]t is as if Bush sought to resurrect every false 1960s-era left-wing cliché about predatory imperialism and turn it into administration policy. >Bush has accomplished this by giving the U.S. a novel foreign-policy doctrine under which it arrogates to itself the right to invade any country it wants if it feels threatened. It is an American version of the Brezhnev Doctrine, but the latter was at least confined to Eastern Europe. >These sentiments mean that as long as Bush is president, we have no real allies in the world, no friends to help us dig out from the Iraq quagmire. More tragically, they mean that if terrorists succeed in striking at the United States in another 9/11-type attack, many in the world will not only think of the American victims but also of the thousands and thousands of Iraqi civilians.... >I’ve heard people who have known George W. Bush for decades and served prominently in his father’s administration say that he could not possibly have conceived of the doctrine of pre-emptive war by himself....

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