Offering frequent news and analysis from the majestic Evergreen State and beyond, The Cascadia Advocate is the Northwest Progressive Institute's unconventional perspective on world, national, and local politics.

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Counter Inaugural

Dubya has been re-inaugurated. So let the counter inaugural begin! You can find out more about what's happening at CounterInaugural.org, Turn Your Back on Bush, and Billionaires for Bush.

Bush's Second Inauguration speech focused on his belief that to enjoy freedom at home and peace abroad, Americans must support the "spread of freedom" throughout the world.

"The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world".

Many critics have already pointed out the hypocrisy in selectively spreading freedom, of going to war in Iraq to replace a tyrant with (hopefully) a democratically elected, representative nation, while we support oppressive undemocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, etc., as well as confer Most Favored Trading status on a repressive one-party state like the People's Republic of China.

<< Home