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-Caveat Lector-  The Most Dangerous Person On Earth It's not who Bush would like you to think it is by Jack Balkin September 26, 2002 When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, his basic strategy was to stake out a position and refuse to budge, hoping to bully others into acquiescing. Only when met with strong opposition did he back down and compromise. We are seeing the same strategy in his policy over Iraq. In the past weeks, the president has attempted to bully the United Nations and now Congress into allowing him to attack Iraq and depose its leader. He is likely to get his wish. But the larger problem is not what will happen if no one stands up to Saddam Hussein. It is what will happen if no one stands up to the president and his vision of moral clarity. Our Constitution left the power to declare war to Congress because of the fear that if the president could act unilaterally, he might seek to aggrandize himself by taking the country into one war after another. Although the president could always defend the nation if attacked, he could not initiate hostilities without Congress' approval. In the 20th century, Congress' role has receded of necessity, so the president's power to make war has been hemmed in largely by domestic politics, the threat of nuclear reprisal and international law. The Bush administration's new policy of pre-emptive attacks is a dangerous addition to this mixture, creating a host of bad incentives. Simply by announcing future threats that deserve pre-emptive action, presidents can seize control of the political stage. A president who takes the country to war pushes aside all other concerns. By shifting the nation's forces from one military offensive to another, he can divert attention from domestic failures and foreign policy blunders. The more often the president attacks other countries pre-emptively, the more likely it becomes that our country will be attacked in turn. The president can then justify additional military action in response, and no patriotic American will oppose it. In this way, the president can effectively govern through war, with disastrous consequences for the nation and for the world. Armed with the doctrine of military pre-emption, the perpetual political campaign perfected by our last president might well become the perpetual military campaign of future presidents. President Bush had good reason to take us to war after Sept. 11. Still, he has not accomplished his stated goal of eliminating al Qaeda or capturing Osama bin Laden. With victory not achieved and Afghanistan still unstable, he has now attempted to shift our attention to a new war with Iraq. Again, he may well have excellent reasons for doing so. But we must pay attention to the larger picture. Members of Congress debating authorization for an attack on Iraq should ask the president tough questions about what future military actions he is considering. The way the president's foreign policy is proceeding, Iraq may not be the last war he asks us to fight. The president is right about one thing, however. Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president. Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. His latest book is "The Laws of Change" (Schocken Books, 2002).     ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§® The ChickenHawk Roster  Brought to you by the New Hampshire Gazette, "The Nation's Oldest Newspaper" Definition::: A chickenhawk is a term often applied to public persons - generally male - who (1) tend to advocate, or are fervent supporters of those who advocate, military solutions to political problems, and who have personally (2) declined to take advantage of a significant opportunity to serve in uniform during wartime. The assembler of this information meditates on his own service in Vietnam, in Cognitive Dissonance and Moral Imperatives, or, From One Morgue to Another While you're here, check out our proposal to save the country from these chicken-livered maniacs. We're still working on an updated, downloadable, printable version of this database, but in the meantime here's a provisional version, as published in our March 22 issue. - The Editor The alleged "gentlemen" listed in this database are here because they share three qualities: bellicosity (a warlike manner or temperament), public prominence, and a curious lack of wartime service when others their age had no trouble finding the fight. (Sorry, Dan and George W. and Dan Q. - your safe, cushy National Guard slots won't help you now.) The fact that they's almost all Republicans is ... well, curious, don't you think? No doubt this list is incomplete. Readers are encouraged to nominate their favorite overlooked chickenhawks. http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§® WAR WITHOUT END? . . NOT IN OUR NAME October 6 - Take the Pledge to Resist! Join Veterans to Resist War for the Rich http://www.notinourname.net/ ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®   JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ BEFORE IT STARTS! See http://www.internationalanswer.org for information about how you can get involved in the October 26 National March in Washington DC and joint action in San Francisco.   ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®   Dear Democratic Candidates for President,   I am a concerned American who is serving you notice that your vote on any resolution to invade Iraq will result in my eliminating you from consideration for higher office. I will only support candidates that that have the courage to do the right thing.    I will never forget your vote on Iraq!   Send an Action Alert to Congress:::  http://www.voice4change.org/stories/mailcongress.asp   Daschle: "This has to end, Mr. President" (Full text) http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.27A.daschle.iraq.htm Read more comics on uComics.com. >> Mike Peters © 2002 Dayton Daily News dist. by Tribune Media Services Buy this comic for your site or publication? ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®   WHAT WILL WAR WITH  IRAQ ACCOMPLISH?  A MILLION NEW TERRORISTS  Why is the Bush administration trying to scare us into war?  THEY TELL US   1. Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11.   2. Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and may be developing nuclear  weapons.   3. We can liberate the Iraqi people.   4. We'll get rid of Saddam Hussein.   THE FACTS  1. There is not one shred of evidence of any 9/11 involvement by Iraq.  2. Former Nat'l Security Advisor Gen. Brent Scowcroft said "the  administration has   not shown that Iraq poses an urgent threat to the U.S."* Past and present Chief  U.N. Weapons Inspectors, Scott Ritter and Hans Blix, say "there is no evidence that   Hussein has weapons of mass destruction or is trying to build them." 3. Bombing Baghdad, a city of 5 million people, will not liberate them. It  will kill them. 4. Saddam is another brutal dictator but we don't know how to get him any more than  we know how to get Osama Bin Laden.  DO THEY WANT WAR BECAUSE...  War will take our minds off the bad economy  Distract us from the health care meltdown  the raids on social security  the assaults on the environment  the corporate scandals  We won't notice the loss of our civil liberties And Wartime presidents get re-elected STOP THE WAR WITH IRAQ BEFORE IT STARTS.  This ad was paid for by the people who signed it.  Source: New York Times, Los Angeles Times   Join Americans Against War With Iraq (AAWWI) to help build the Movement against the Bush administration policy of permanent war. To help print this and other ads in many newspapers, please fill out the coupon and send it with your contribution of $________  to: AAWWI  3450 Wilshire Blvd. #108-B  Los Angeles, CA 90010-2208   ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®   Friends, Here is an opportunity for you to exercise your democratic freedom and cast your vote for the most important issue facing our country at this time.   Phone the White House at 202-456-1111  between 9am and 5pm Monday through Friday.   A machine will detain you for only a moment and then a pleasant live operator will thank you for saying "I oppose" (or "I approve of") the proposed war against Iraq. It took me less than 3 minutes--a few tries with redial to get past the busy signal, then just a short wait to get an operator. It was very easy and didn't take long. The president wants to know. Tell him. Time is running out. Then please forward this e-mail to your friends and family!!!   ½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾½¾ Chomsky Interview The war against terrorism will have a lot more casualities, a lot more innocent casualities. Can this be justified? Again, the question cannot be answered in the abstract. But there are some criteria for answering it. One simple criterion is that if some action is legitimate for us, then it is legitimate for others. To take an example, if it is legitimate for the US to bomb Afghanistan because Washington suspects that the plot to carry out the 9-11 atrocities was hatched there (the FBI has recently conceded they still have only suspicions, no firm evidence), then a fortiori, it would have been legitimate for Nicaraguans (Cubans, Lebanese, and a long list of others) to bomb Washington because they know, not suspect, that it is the source of terrorist actrocities that far exceed even 9-11. Those who do not accept the latter conclusion -- that is, every sane person -- cannot accept the former one, unless they reject the most elementary moral principles, and thereby abandon any claim to speak of right and wrong, good and evil. The same criterion applies universally. It does not answer all questions, but does answer a great many of them. It is true that elementary moral principles such as this cannot be considered by the rich and powerful, because of the consequences that follow very quickly. Nevertheless, honest people should be willing to entertain them. Full Interview::: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=2068 ®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®¢§®   "A great many people think they are thinking when they are just rearranging their prejudices." -- William James   "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." -- George Bernard Shaw   "Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it." -- Whitney Griswold   "The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering." -- Carl Jung   "He who dares not offend cannot be honest."  -- Thomas Paine   FutureWorks FilmFestival  Centre http://mutanex.com/futurefest   WNN: Office of Special Investigations http://worldnewsinvestigation.com   RECOMMENDED READING   The Mafia, CIA and George Bush by Peter Brewton   Dark Alliance: The Cia, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion by Gary Webb, Maxine Waters (Foreword)   Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the Cia, Dea, and Other Covert Agencies by Rodney Stich   The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons, and High Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast   The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President by Vincent Bugliosi, et al unsubscribe - subscribe - change subscriptions - my account advertising info - privacy policy - about uComics - about uclick ©2002 uclick, LLC. 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