Pubdate: Sun, 30 Jun 2002
Source: Tallahassee Democrat (FL)
Copyright: 2002 Tallahassee Democrat.
Contact:  http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/democrat/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/444
Author: Adam G. Thompson

DESTROYING THEOCRACY IN AFGHANISTAN, CREATING ONE HERE

President Bush did what he had to do with the security information made 
available to him before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The attack gave him 
the support he needed from the American people and Congress to generate the 
war on terror that consumed our budget surplus and Social Security funds. 
If the devastating Sept. 11 attack had happened during President Clinton's 
term, there would have been a cry for impeachment and more special 
prosecutors. Court-appointed President Bush came out a hero smelling like a 
rose. Why?

In addition to World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and a number 
of other military engagements, we now have domestic wars on poverty, drugs 
and terrorists. The war on poverty increased the number of unwed mothers 
and welfare recipients. The war on drugs generated a need for more prisons 
to house our confiscated youth without stopping the flow of drugs or 
hurting the wealthy drug lords. The war on terrorism has turned this nation 
into a police state.

President Bush used our armed forces to eliminate bin Laden's evil Taliban 
theocracy in Afghanistan. However, he is busy creating one.

ADAM G. THOMPSON
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