Bush's warfare state

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By ILANA MERCER
From Thursday's Globe and Mail

The Iraq quagmire and its ever-mutating justifications show that George W. Bush is oblivious to a basic principle of his own conservative ideology: Top-down central planning -- economic or political -- is doomed to fail.


In the process of pursuing some sort of neo- conservative Manifest Destiny, President Bush has junked the American Constitution -- it gave him no authority to "promote" global freedom, democracy or nation-building with blood and treasure not his own.


In his latest address to the nation, Mr. Bush spoke of more sacrifice (not his own) and promised to "do what is necessary . . . spend what is necessary to achieve this essential victory in the war on terror, to promote freedom and to make our own nation more secure."

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well worth reading, as this is a WorldNetDaily columnist that has really turned viciously on the * junta