George McGovern to Cheney: Resign
Of particular concern to McGovern is the war in Iraq, which he has steadfastly opposed.“The war was begun in clear violation of the Constitution,” McGovern says. “There was no declaration of war by the Congress. Secondly, it’s a flagrant violation of international law: Iraq was not threatening the United States in any way. Yet, the United States went after Iraq. The president and vice president got away with it, at least initially, because they were willing to exploit the emotional power of the 9/11 attack to achieve their goal of getting us into a war in the Middle East.”
Archive for March 10, 2007
George McGovern
Family Values
American Prospect Online – The Family Values Sham
American conservatism is a house divided against itself. It applauds the radicalism of the economic changes of the past four decades — the dismantling, say, of the American steel industry and the job and income security that it once provided in the cause of greater efficiency. It decries the decline of social and familial stability over that time — the traditional, married working-class families, say, that once filled all those churches in the hills and hollows in what is now the smaller, post-working-class Pittsburgh.Problem is, disperse a vibrant working-class community in America and you disperse the vibrant working-class family.
Which is how American conservatism became the primary author of the very social disorder that it routinely rails against, and that Republicans have the gall to run against.
