A Canadian perspective from Price George, BC:

"...This is going to be one of those contrary days.
For openers, electing Barack Obama as the next U.S. president would be the best thing to happen in American politics since former president Dwight Eisenhower, and for a lot of the same reasons. His election could be good for Prince George as well, and I'll get to that later.
To open on Eisenhower, if he were alive today I think he'd be supporting Obama.
Eisenhower, a Republican and Allied commander during the Second World War, understood better than most the horrible cost of war. Not only in the death it caused, but in the responsibility and consequences of its aftermath.
When he left the presidency in 1961, Eisenhower offered this warning, saying: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the military-industrial complex."
He went on to say: "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defence with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
Eisenhower would not be happy with the current gunslinger policy of the Bush White House.
To push the text of his warning, current American foreign policy has come unmeshed and the country's security and liberty have not prospered in the least.
Now to Obama and his take on the Bush war on Iraq.
On the invasion of Iraq, Obama said this: "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East and encourage the worst, rather than the best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaida."
Wow, did he nail that one. Moreover, he made that speech in October 2002; the invasion of Iraq came less than six months later, in March 2003.
In one short paragraph, Obama not only correctly laid out the faulty military strategy of an Iraq invasion, but the terrible geo-political consequences as well.
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