Word: democratization
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...thought democracy was about the people choosing their government, not about Democratic and Republican party chairmen forcing us to pick between the two people they support. Although I would much rather see a Democrat in office than Bush again, I refuse to continue to vote for the lesser of two evils. My vote for Nader is not a vote for Bush. It is a vote for Nader, and I hope it will shake up the hegemonic two-party electoral system so in the future voters will have a real choice. ELIZABETH DAWN CREACH Beaverton...
...terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism." Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. "The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA’s excessive redactions to the report," Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement last week, without mentioning any specific CIA-proposed edits...
...there's more bad news for ICE on the horizon. According to a letter sent Tuesday to the DHS inspector general by Rep. Jim Turner, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Homeland Security, ICE is in danger of violating a federal law against overspending its budget - part of the problem stems from technology flaws with the agency's financial management system. Turner wrote that his staff's interviews with ICE employees had turned up claims such as funds being transferred on a daily basis to ICE from its parent DHS agency to avoid shortfalls; ICE pilots going...
...look back on the '60s and think there was more good than harm, you're probably a Democrat. If you think there was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican." BILL CLINTON, former President, kicking off a book tour for his new autobiography, My Life...
...administration has improved the prospects for greater burden-sharing by other armed forces - the French look set to block Bush's efforts to bring NATO in, but the administration may be able to persuade some Muslim countries such as Pakistan to send troops. That leaves little ground for presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry to claim as the basis of an alternative Iraq policy - without conceding anything to Kerry, the Bush administration has effectively pursued many of the policy remedies the Democrat has advocated. White House strategists will clearly be hoping now that as long as a major upsurge of violence...