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What's the Next President's Job? To Clean Up the Detritus So Ably Created by the Bush Administration

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Rather than conducting the war in Afhganstan until Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were defeated, the malignancy that is Mr. Bush threw away moral and military capital by his Calmitious invasion of Iraq. Now the

United States has lost the support of the Pakistani people in the war on terror. The Inter Press Service reports that "[a]mid reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is considering aggressive covert actions against armed Islamist forces in western Pakistan, a new survey released here Monday suggested that such an effort would be opposed by an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis themselves. . . . The survey, which was funded by the quasi-governmental U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and designed by the University of Maryland's Programme on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), also found that a strong majority of Pakistanis consider the U.S. military presence in Asia and neighbouring Afghanistan a much more critical threat to their country than al Qaeda or Pakistan's own Taliban movement in the tribal regions along the border with Afghanistan. . . . Only five percent of respondents said the Pakistani government should permit U.S. or other foreign troops to enter Pakistan to pursue or capture al Qaeda fighters, compared to a whopping 80 percent who said such actions should not be permitted, according to the poll, which was based on in-depth interviews of more than 900 Pakistanis in 19 cities in mid-September." Aside from criminality, Mr. Bush's arrogant machine indicates why wars of necessity should be fought (Afghanistan) until victory is ours and why foreign policy wars (Iraq) ought not to be fought at all. It also shows why the intellectual, emotional, commonsensical development of a presidential gb:

candidate ought to be evaluated before the decision to vote for that candidate is even considered. George W. Bush may be an aberration in American constitutionalism and politics, but his tenure as president and the virtually irreparable damage he's done to our nation and its place in the world community clearly demonstrates why careful scrutiny of presidential candidates must become a citizen's urgent duty. And, oh yes, it also clearly shows why the Constitution gave the Supreme Court no role in settling contested presidential elections.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on January 08, 2008 (boomark / email).