Prestius
10-19-2004, 02:43 PM
Picked these links up from a fairly popular comic strip and thought I'd share them with you.
John Eisnenhower - Dwight D's son:
http://www.theunionleader.com/articlesshowa.html?article=44657
Key quote:
"As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration?s decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. The fact is that today?s ?Republican? Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar. To me, the word ?Republican? has always been synonymous with the word ?responsibility,? which has meant limiting our governmental obligations to those we can afford in human and financial terms. "
A Wall Street Journal Reporter's letter from Iraq
http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=misc
Key quote:
"Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under
virtual house arrest."
A Reagan Republican's assessment of Bush
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/09/10/conservatives/index/indexnp1.html
"A Reaganite argues that Bush is a dangerous, profligate, moralizing radical -- and that his reelection would be catastrophic both for the right and for America."
A letter from Rep. Doug Bereuter - Republican Congressman from Nebraska
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/08/19/letters/doc412532f09fbbe438621096.txt
Key quote:
"It is a painful and disturbing process, but America and everyone involved in the decision-making and oversight process (the Executive Branch and Congress) must learn from the errors and failures related to waging a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the aftermath of that war. The toll in American military casualties and those of civilians, physical damages caused, financial resources spent, and the damage to the support and image of the United States abroad, all demand such an assessment and accounting"
Endorsement of John Kerry by the Lone Star Iconoclast
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
Who cares? It's the hometown paper for Crawford Texas. Iconoclastic indeed!
Just some food for thought for those of you who see the presidency and the war as a party-line issue.
-P
John Eisnenhower - Dwight D's son:
http://www.theunionleader.com/articlesshowa.html?article=44657
Key quote:
"As son of a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. With the current administration?s decision to invade Iraq unilaterally, however, I changed my voter registration to independent, and barring some utterly unforeseen development, I intend to vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate, Sen. John Kerry. The fact is that today?s ?Republican? Party is one with which I am totally unfamiliar. To me, the word ?Republican? has always been synonymous with the word ?responsibility,? which has meant limiting our governmental obligations to those we can afford in human and financial terms. "
A Wall Street Journal Reporter's letter from Iraq
http://www.poynter.org/forum/?id=misc
Key quote:
"Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under
virtual house arrest."
A Reagan Republican's assessment of Bush
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/09/10/conservatives/index/indexnp1.html
"A Reaganite argues that Bush is a dangerous, profligate, moralizing radical -- and that his reelection would be catastrophic both for the right and for America."
A letter from Rep. Doug Bereuter - Republican Congressman from Nebraska
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/08/19/letters/doc412532f09fbbe438621096.txt
Key quote:
"It is a painful and disturbing process, but America and everyone involved in the decision-making and oversight process (the Executive Branch and Congress) must learn from the errors and failures related to waging a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the aftermath of that war. The toll in American military casualties and those of civilians, physical damages caused, financial resources spent, and the damage to the support and image of the United States abroad, all demand such an assessment and accounting"
Endorsement of John Kerry by the Lone Star Iconoclast
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/Columns/Editorial/editorial39.htm
Who cares? It's the hometown paper for Crawford Texas. Iconoclastic indeed!
Just some food for thought for those of you who see the presidency and the war as a party-line issue.
-P