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A King George quiz for July 4th
(Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, 01 July 2004)

On this July 4th, not a week after our regime of plunderers, having done their best to strip down Iraq economically (as they are also strip-mining our own country), handed a hollow "sovereignty" to Iyad Allawi, the leader of a former Iraqi terrorist organization, it's worth rereading that inspiriting document, the Declaration of Independence. Without a teacher looking over your shoulder, consider the words of the men who founded these United States as they reject an earlier King George who had inflicted on them "a history of repeated injuries and usurpations," who had "affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power." Let yourself be stirred by the thought that to secure the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, "governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." But don't let me quote it to you. Go look at it yourself, and read those first two paragraphs aloud.

Then take a moment to read a bit of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002, the degraded and shameful document of complaints, caveats, and lies by which a pusillanimous Congress supinely surrendered to our President its power to declare war and so let him lead us, unhindered, into our present pass. (Note the crucial role in the document of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction -- the risk that Saddam's regime would "either employ those weapons to launch a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide them to international terrorists who would do so" -- and of "terrorist organizations," especially al-Qaeda, "known to be in Iraq," and of the linkage by proximity of the 9/11 attacks and Saddam's Iraq.)

Then try your hand at Stephen Shalom's July 4th quiz below [CLICK FOR QUIZ] which combines parts of the Declaration of Independence issued against one King George with events of our moment...

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