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The following article was also released by Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential pre-candidate campaign committe, LaRouche in 2004, as an Open Letter to the Democratic National Committee.
There are some facts the Democratic National Committee must finally face, if the Party is not merely to survive the crises already in progress, but play a more effective and relevant role in response to the mounting peril to civilization than we have seen from the Party, and the Congress as a whole, since the inauguration of President George W. Bush.
For that purpose, I turn your attention, first, to the contrast of my January 28th State of the Union address to President Bush's address delivered later that same day. I ask you to view the combined state of our national political parties in the context of the current State of the Union as I described the current situation in that address. I put the following proposition to you:
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The threat that the United States of America, the world's premier republic, might imminently initiate an imperialist war against the Muslim world, impels us this week to turn our attention to our first President, George Washington, and his Farewell Address—and of course, our celebration of Washington's birthday on Feb. 22. He was born in 1732, and served his country in a public capacity from the age of 18 forward, leaving office as President of the United States in the early months of 1797.
George Washington was not much of a writer, and, indeed, his Farewell Address, on which he labored with his close collaborator, Alexander Hamilton, is his most famous production. The Address was delivered in September of 1796, as an announcement of his impending retirement from political life, and he took pains to review the major lessons which he took from the founding, and first two Presidential terms, of the young republic.
The two major lessons can be summarized as follows: avoid the "Spirit of Party," and "permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations and passionate attachment for others." These warnings take on special significance today, as our nation is threatened with the destruction of its soul, precisely because it is giving in to both.
When President Washington was writing these words, he well knew that his beloved nation, and even his own Administration, were being ripped apart by the split then opening up between the Democratic-Republican and Federalist Parties, which were tearing into each other with a passion, and seeking to play one section of the nation (the South) against the rest. But while his words specifically refer to this disastrous situation—which ultimately was overcome, if then briefly, in the Union victory in the Civil War, Washington's warnings should be heeded today, when partisan advantage is holding sway over the interests of the nation. The relevant sections read:
"The Unity of Government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main Pillar in the Edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility, at home; your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty which you so highly prize.
"But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your Interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole."
Washington cited the threats to this Union, in terms of arguments for sectional interests, or threats to the Constitutional process of decision-making, or to the "energy of the system" [an energetic executive—ed.]. He concluded this section with a general warning "against the baneful effects of the Spirit of Party, generally.... [T]he common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.
"It serves always to distract the Public Councils with ill-founded Public administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country, are subjected to the policy and will of another."
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Economics:
A European Economic Break Is Seen as Option Against War
by Paul Gallagher
In the policy confrontation between the warhawks of the United States and Britain on one hand, and the broad resistance of 'old Europe' to an imperial war on the other, all the nations involved on both sides share one absolute fundamental: Their economies are all breaking down into depression, and their government revenues at all levels are collapsing.
Food Import Dependence of U.S. Grows as Dollar Falls
by Arthur Ticknor
The import share of U.S. food consumption has climbed markedly since 1980, while 'global sourcing'/stealing has masked consumer food price inflation; the inflation, nonetheless, still hits hard in those households of the lower 80% family-income range.
New Threats From West Nile Virus
by Linda Everett
From the early 1700s in what became the United States, settlers waged vigorous battles to prevent or cure both endemic diseases (those which are always present) and epidemic diseases (those which strike from time to time with great intensity), in addition to the scourges that came from fouled water and environmental sources.
International:
Behind the Iraq Dossier Hoax: Intell Was Cooked in Israel
by Jeffrey Steinberg
According to media accounts, the 10 Downing Street 'dossier,' cited favorably by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in his disastrous Feb. 5 report to the United Nations Security Council, was plagiarized from an American graduate school paper, based on information more than a decade old.
Military Conference
Europe, Asia Talk Back To Rumsfeld and McCain
by Rainer Apel
This year's 39th Munich Conference on Security Policy—the annual former 'Wehrkunde' meeting—gathered several hundred defense politicians and experts, notably from NATO member countries, on Feb. 7-9, and documented what one may appropriately term 'the clash of two civilizations'—an almost unbridgeable gulf between the pro-war party and those that want to avoid a military operation against Iraq.
Will There Be Regime Change in Britain?
by Mark Burdman
The massive opposition in Great Britain to a war against Iraq, while the collapse of the British and world economy is demolishing whatever remaining illusions of 'normalcy' and 'prosperity' still exist, has created a situation in which tectonic shifts in the British political landscape can be expected.
Iraq War:Goodbye to African Development
by David Cherry
When South Africa's ambassador to the UN corrected the U.S. ambassador, in a Security Council debate on war against Iraq on Jan. 27, it was a high point in South Africa's intense campaign to prevent the war—a war that South Africa says, correctly, will do incalculable harm to the continent and the world.
Vatican Peace Effort Grows, Despite Italian Government Betrayal
by Claudio Celani
A major role in the global war-prevention effort is being carried out by Pope John Paul II, who sent his special envoy, Cardinal Roger Etchegarray, to Baghdad on Feb. 9, soon after the Pope and his collaborators conferred with visiting German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in Rome.
Pakistan
Musharraf Looks for Options in Moscow
by Ramtanu Maitra
On the face of it, Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's Feb. 4-6 visit to Moscow was an exercise in futility. India shouted from the rooftop that the trip was a failure, and so did a number of Russian commentators who did not see anything of significance emerging from the trip.
Peru
Is Toledo Breaking His Ties to Soros?
by Luis Va´squez Medina
The resignations of Peru's Interior Minister Gino Costa and National Intelligence Council head Fernando Rospigliosi at the end of January, quickly followed by the resignations of other officials belonging to the most fanatic faction of oneworlders, could well mark the beginning of the Toledo government's break with the supranational forces which Lyndon LaRouche has characterized as 'utopian globalism.'
National:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DNC
The State of the Political Parties
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
February 9, 2003 This open letter was distributed by the Presidential precandidate's political committee, LaRouche in 2004.
There are some facts the Democratic National Committee must finally face, if the Party is not merely to survive the crises already in progress, but play a more effective and relevant role in response to the mounting peril to civilization than we have seen from the Party, and the Congress as a whole, since the inauguration of President George W. Bush.
Disastrous Iraq War Can Still Be Stopped
by Edward Spannaus
President Bush and the Chicken-hawks in Washington are being confronted with a growing world-wide resistance to their push for a Middle East war, resistance expressed most notably through more visible American-institutional opposition, and a consolidated bloc of Europe's three major powers—Germany, France, and Russia—joined by China.
Al-Qaeda Dossier Comes From New Yorker Magazine
by Michele Steinberg
Colin Powell's testimony at the UN on Feb. 5 has unleashed a flood of well-aimed critiques, that counter, in great detail, and with great competence, the dossier presented against Iraq by the Bush Administration. War is not an option, say these reports, many of which are prepared by intelligence and military veterans, who are trying to avert another Vietnam War disaster.
McCain and Lieberman: 'Bull Moose' Mate Again
by Scott Thompson
Senators and potential Presidential candidates John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) are seeking again to put Congressional pressure on President George W. Bush to go to war immediately—as at the Feb. 8-9 'Wehrkunde' meeting in Munich, where the pair proclaimed that the Iraq war is 'their policy.'
Michael Novak Catholics Want Pope To Support War
by William F. Wertz, Jr.
In an example of absolute imperial arrogance, Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington flew to Rome, at the behest of U.S. Vatican Ambassador Jim Nicholson, with the announced intention to meet with Pope John Paul II, to convince the Pope to support the pre-emptive war doctrine of Novak and fellow Utopians in and around the Bush Administration.
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