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  Once a high-level Reagan-era diplomat, Alan Keyes is a long-time leader in the conservative movement. He is well-known as a staunch pro-life champion and an eloquent advocate of the constitutional republic, including respect for the moral basis of liberty and self-government. He has worked to promote an approach to politics based on the initiative of citizens of goodwill consonant with the with the principles of God-endowed natural right
• As articulated by their leadership during the American Revolution, Americans received their call to such citizenship (their citizen vocation) as part of an endowment from Almighty God, when he conferred upon each and every one of them their title of humanity. It gave them all an equal right to act as representatives of God’s dominion. As such it made them subject to no other dominion than His, unless it be by delegation of this, their power of representation. But as they come into that power by endowment from God, they are bound to exercise it according to His will. They can logically consent to nothing that contradicts this bond, since by doing so they would deny the efficacy of the original from which arises the power of representation that gives meaning to their consent.

• Arabic version of the Iraq constitution.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-18

• The new Iraq constitution called "The Islamic Republic of Iraq" is here in Arabic and English. Click on the PDF link to receive the new democracy's constitution. Keep in mind that the Iraq government has obtained governance legitimacy around May of 2006 - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-17

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• Bush's unswerving support for Israel.
• He ostracized Yasser Arafat as an impediment to peace in the Middle East.
• It's not only wildly popular; it has cost less than expected by triggering competition among drug companies.
• Roberts and Alito made the Court indisputably more conservative. And the good news is Roberts, 53, and Alito, 58,
• He strengthened relations with east Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, Australia) without causing a rift with China.
• On top of that, he forged strong ties with India.
• This makes his decision a profile in courage. Best of all, the surge worked. Iraq is now a fragile but functioning democracy.
• How does Bush rank as a president? We won't know until he's judged from the perspective of two or three decades. Hindsight forced a sharp upgrading of the presidencies of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower. Given his achievements, it may have the same effect for Bush.

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• (1) On September 22, 1980, Iraq invaded Iran, starting an 8 year war in which Iraq employed chemical weapons against Iranian troops and ballistic missiles against Iranian cities.
• (2) In February 1988, Iraq forcibly relocated Kurdish civilians from their home villages in the Anfal campaign, killing an estimated 50,000 to 180,000 Kurds.
• (3) On March 16, 1988, Iraq used chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurdish civilian opponents in the town of Halabja, killing an estimated 5,000 Kurds and causing numerous birth defects that affect the town today.
• (4) On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and began a 7 month occupation of Kuwait, killing and committing numerous abuses against Kuwaiti civilians, and setting Kuwait's oil wells ablaze upon retreat. (5) Hostilities in Operation Desert Storm ended on February 28, 1991, and Iraq subsequently accepted the ceasefire conditions specified in United Nations Security Council Resolution 687 (April 3, 1991) requiring Iraq, among other things, to disclose fully and permit the dismantlement of its weapons of mass destruction programs and submit to long-term monitoring and verification of such dismantlement.
• (6) In April 1993, Iraq orchestrated a failed plot to assassinate former President George Bush during his April 14-16, 1993, visit to Kuwait.
• (7) In October 1994, Iraq moved 80,000 troops to areas near the border with Kuwait, posing an imminent threat of a renewed invasion of or attack against Kuwait.
• (8) On August 31, 1996, Iraq suppressed many of its opponents by helping one Kurdish faction capture Irbil, the seat of the Kurdish regional government.
• (9) Since March 1996, Iraq has systematically sought to deny weapons inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) access to key facilities and documents, has on several occasions endangered the safe operation of UNSCOM helicopters transporting UNSCOM personnel in Iraq, and has persisted in a pattern of deception and concealment regarding the history of its weapons of mass destruction programs.
• (10) On August 5, 1998, Iraq ceased all cooperation with UNSCOM, and subsequently threatened to end long-term monitoring activities by the International Atomic Energy Agency and UNSCOM.
• (11) On August 14, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-235, which declared that `the Government of Iraq is in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations' and urged the President `to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations.'.
• (12) On May 1, 1998, President Clinton signed Public Law 105-174, which made $5,000,000 available for assistance to the Iraqi democratic opposition for such activities as organization, training, communication and dissemination of information, developing and implementing agreements among opposition groups, compiling information to support the indictment of Iraqi officials for war crimes, and for related purposes.
• It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime.

  • America's government said it was necessary to have a REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ dated 1998
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• There are many annswers to the many questions that foreign people have asked about America. Read the factual information about America here.
  - liveinfreedom . on 2008-02-18