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Bush: It's Not Just His Doctrine That's Wrong
by Howard Dean
When Congress approved the President�s authorization to go to war in Iraq � no matter how well-intentioned � it was giving the green light to the President to set his Doctrine of preemptive war in motion. It now appears that Iraq was just the first step. . . . Too much is at stake. We have taken decades of consensus on the conduct of foreign policy � bipartisan consensus in the United States and consensus among our allies in the world community � and turned it on its head. It could well take decades to repair the damage this President and his cohort of right-wing ideological advisors have done to our standing in the international community. . . . The President who campaigned on a platform of a humble foreign policy has instead begun implementing a foreign policy characterized by dominance, arrogance and intimidation. . . . The next president will need to undo the work of this band of radicals currently controlling our foreign policy � who view the Middle East as a laboratory for their experiments in democracy-building, where no such traditions exist. Their approach will drastically change the view that the world has had of the United States. . . . The people of this country must understand that this Administration has a far different concept of the role of America in the world. This concept involves imposing our will on sovereign nations. This concept involves dismantling the multilateral institutions that we have spent decades building. And this concept involves distorting the rule of law to suit their narrow purposes. . . . This President shamelessly divides us from one another. He divides us by race � as he did when he claimed that the University of Michigan uses quotas in its law school admissions. He divides us by class by rewarding his campaign donors with enormous tax cuts while the rest of us are deprived of affordable health care, prescription drugs for our seniors, and good schools for our kids. He divides us by gender by seeking to restrict reproductive choice for women. He divides us by sexual orientation by appointing reactionary judges to the bench, and as he did in Texas by refusing to sign the Hate Crimes bill if it included gay or lesbian Americans as potential victims. . . . I believe that the Democratic Party needs to stand for something if we want people to vote for us. And by standing against the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war and domestic division, we may yet rediscover the soul of our Party.

posted by LoZo 7:34 PM