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Bush insists that U.S. troops continue to occupy Iraq for the foreseeable future. John Kerry, who voted to authorize the war, is not supporting the removal of U.S. troops. In fact, he is calling for adding 40,000 troops to the Army on a temporary basis to ease the personnel shortage created by the Iraq deployment....Both the Democratic and Republican administrations maintained genocidal sanctions on Iraq that killed nearly 1.5 million people according to the United Nation's own statistics.
As the Bush administration gave the green light to Ariel Sharon to wage terror against the Palestinian people, John Kerry issued a paper in February titled, "The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America." Both oppose the legitimate right of Palestinian people to self-determination and return. The U.S. government - with the support of both parties - funds the war against the Palestinian people at the cost of $15 million a day.
...Bush has been slashing vitally needed social programs. Kerry, in spite of his fabulous wealth, decided that welfare recipients were receiving excess benefits when he voted in 1996 for the Welfare Reform Act that stripped millions of poor people, 70 percent of whom were children, of their right to food and housing.
...George Bush is proposing a constitutional amendment to ban marriage rights for all. Instead of a constitutional amendment, John Kerry proposes that each state enact a similar ban.
...Bush's reactionary "No Child Left Behind Act" passed with the support of the Democratic Party, including John Kerry. The bill punishes working class and poor communities by stripping funds from schools that fail to meet testing performance standards. This bill is inherently racist as it especially victimizes already underfunded schools in predominantly African-American and Latino communities. The bill is also known as "No Child Left Unrecruited," as it requires schools to turn over the name, address and phone number of every junior and senior to local military recruiters or face cuts in federal funding.
...We also know that what has not stopped the Bush administration is the Democratic Party, because that Party is an expression of the same corporate establishment and Military-Industrial Complex in whose interest the Bush administration functions. Although the Democratic Party leadership opposes some of the most right-wing elements of the Bush agenda, its record proves time and time again that it willingly capitulates to the Bush program and turns its back on the communities it claims to represent.
Both parties and both conventions represent the concentration of power in the hands of corporate and banking elites, the extension of militarism and war, and the assault carried out by the corporate establishment against workers' rights, civil rights and civil liberties. It was the massive and independent mobilization of the people that won union rights in the 1930s, civil rights in the 1960s, and the advance in women's and lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights. It was the people of the United States, combined with the resistance in Vietnam and around the world, which brought that criminal war in Southeast Asia to an end.
As the Bush administration gave the green light to Ariel Sharon to wage terror against the Palestinian people, John Kerry issued a paper in February titled, "The Cause of Israel is the Cause of America." Both oppose the legitimate right of Palestinian people to self-determination and return. The U.S. government - with the support of both parties - funds the war against the Palestinian people at the cost of $15 million a day.
...Bush has been slashing vitally needed social programs. Kerry, in spite of his fabulous wealth, decided that welfare recipients were receiving excess benefits when he voted in 1996 for the Welfare Reform Act that stripped millions of poor people, 70 percent of whom were children, of their right to food and housing.
...George Bush is proposing a constitutional amendment to ban marriage rights for all. Instead of a constitutional amendment, John Kerry proposes that each state enact a similar ban.
...Bush's reactionary "No Child Left Behind Act" passed with the support of the Democratic Party, including John Kerry. The bill punishes working class and poor communities by stripping funds from schools that fail to meet testing performance standards. This bill is inherently racist as it especially victimizes already underfunded schools in predominantly African-American and Latino communities. The bill is also known as "No Child Left Unrecruited," as it requires schools to turn over the name, address and phone number of every junior and senior to local military recruiters or face cuts in federal funding.
...We also know that what has not stopped the Bush administration is the Democratic Party, because that Party is an expression of the same corporate establishment and Military-Industrial Complex in whose interest the Bush administration functions. Although the Democratic Party leadership opposes some of the most right-wing elements of the Bush agenda, its record proves time and time again that it willingly capitulates to the Bush program and turns its back on the communities it claims to represent.
Both parties and both conventions represent the concentration of power in the hands of corporate and banking elites, the extension of militarism and war, and the assault carried out by the corporate establishment against workers' rights, civil rights and civil liberties. It was the massive and independent mobilization of the people that won union rights in the 1930s, civil rights in the 1960s, and the advance in women's and lesbian/gay/bi/trans rights. It was the people of the United States, combined with the resistance in Vietnam and around the world, which brought that criminal war in Southeast Asia to an end.
Not party action. Not elected representatives. The people.
Personally, I think we need to revamp the whole process. It doesn't work.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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