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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
30 Mar 2007 02:32:31 PM |
| Object: |
“We tried a monarchy once, it's not suited to America.” |
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8931817
The war comes to Washington
Mar 29th 2007 |
WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist
THE war in Iraq has been pursued with “an arrogant self-delusion
reminiscent of Vietnam” and is “destroying our military”.
Young American soldiers are “kicking down doors [in Baghdad] with a
bull's eye on their back”.
The administration is demanding “lemming-like” obedience from
Congress.
Senator Chuck Hagel will have none of it.
“We tried a monarchy once,” he growled on March 27th.
“It's not suited to America.”
Such rhetoric would raise few eyebrows if it came from a Democrat.
But Mr Hagel is a Republican.
Indeed, he is expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination
for 2008 (though he does not look very likely to win it).
This was one of the most impassioned attacks that a prominent
Republican has ever made on George Bush.
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Harry
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