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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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24 Apr 2006 05:09:41 AM |
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OT: Arthur Schlesinger |
Bush's Thousand Days
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042301014.html
By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Monday, April 24, 2006; Page A17
The Hundred Days is indelibly associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and the Thousand Days with John F. Kennedy. But as of this week, a
thousand days remain of President Bush's last term -- days filled with
ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against
Iran.
The issue of preventive war as a presidential prerogative is hardly
new. In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to
the Mexican War: "Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation,
whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow
him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for
such purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure [emphasis
added]. . . . If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary
to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you
stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British
invading us'; but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you
don't.' "
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