[Peace] Meg Miner N-G LTE: Bush a poor choice for Lincoln library award

[Robert Naiman]

She's a veteran by the way. I wonder if there's a public ceremony that can
be picketed. Isn't this a semi-public entity? What's up with that?

http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letters-the-editor/2019-03-14/letter-the-editor-bush-poor-choice-award.html

Letter to the Editor | Bush a poor choice for award
Thu, 03/14/2019 - 8:34pm | The News-Gazette
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is showcasing more poor
decisions.

They are not financial this time. They announced that former President
George W. Bush is their 2019 Lincoln Leadership Prize recipient, praising
him for things that truly deserve condemnation.

They praise the No Child Left Behind Act, but states balked at federal
overreach and Congress declined to reauthorize it in 2007.

They praise his global HIV/AIDS initiative and fail to mention the Global
Gag Rule on family planning he reinstated from Ronald Reagan's era.

They praise his global coalition building "to remove violent regimes in
Afghanistan and Iraq," but anti-American sentiment abounds, and violent
regimes now mimic us by using anti-terrorism as an excuse to crush dissent.

The people of Afghanistan and Iraq did nothing to threaten us pre-9/11, but
they have every reason to hate us now.

Lincoln struggled to bring the country together against the warped ideology
and market forces supporting slavery. His idea of coalition building
involved listening to people who disagreed with him.

Bush promoted American solidarity by telling us to go shopping. His idea of
coalition building was "you are either with us or against us."

The legacy of Bush's presidency is the economic and moral downfall of
America. He tore Southwest Asia apart for his own interests, and it has
cost us nearly five trillion dollars. This cost does not reflect the
generations of American, coalition and "enemy" children left behind in his
wake.

MEG MINER

Mansfield

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Robert Reuel Naiman
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Just Foreign Policy
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naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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