Posted on 04/23/2003 11:37:31 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON--An old baseball joke: A manager says his team needs just two more players to become a pennant contender. But, he says, ``The players are Ruth and Gehrig.''
Iraq needs only four people to achieve post-Saddam success. Unfortunately they are George Washington, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall.
Since the Second World War, which culminated in many regime changes, the United States has had at least a hand in shaping regimes in many places beyond Japan and Germany, as in Italy, where the CIA helped the democratic parties turn back the Communist challenge in the 1948 elections. U.S. actions have determined, or helped to determine, the nature of regimes in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954), South Vietnam (the coup that killed President Ngo Dinh Diem in October 1963), Chile (1973), Panama (1989), Nicaragua (via the Contras, 1990) and Afghanistan (2001), among other places.
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Dont know about Marshall, what he said in Marbury v Madison, It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. Those who apply the rule to particular cases, must of necessity expound and interpret that rule. doesnt jive with Article IV of the U.S. Constitution; This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. Kind of sounds like the laws of the several States are supposed to conform to the U.S. Constitution, not the other way around.
That's why there is only one United States, and there will probably never be another in a 1000 years.
There was a sudden convergence of great men that will never be repeated.
Iraq will take time, it will be no less than 5 years.
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