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The Bush Administration foreign policy, supported by the Republican Congress, has been based on deceit, arrogance, ignorance and ultimately stupidity. Simon will support policies to reassert Congressional control over the warmaking power and military spending, stop war profiteering, rebuild our alliances, and promote peace in Israel and the occupied territories.

Simon will support the following legislative agenda:

Rejoin the Family of Nations
Re-establish our traditional alliances; assume our traditional position within NATO; place our nation once again in its traditional seat of honor among the nations of the world, assuring the world that this Republican Administration was simply a lone erratic aberration in recent US history.

Prohibit War Profiteering
Prohibit war profiteering by private contractors. (Congress refused to adopt anti-profiteering language in its generous $87 billion appropriation.)

Investigate Pre-9/11 Intelligence
Subpoena and analysis of all documentation relevant to the status of our national security intelligence relating to the events of, and preceding, September 11, 2001.

Investigate WMD Intelligence
Subpoena and analysis of all documentation relevant to assess the state of our intelligence with regard to the situation in Iraq prior to our invasion.

Monitor War-related Spending
Impose Congressional oversight over all war-related Administration expenditures. (Congress denied itself that authority.)

Deny Funds for Agressive War
Deny funds for any foreign adventure in which our nation is not truly threatened, as determined by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.

Disarm Palestinian Terrorists
Demand that the US, the European Union, the UN and Russia, the co-drafters of the Israeli-Palestinian ‘Road Map to Peace’, enforce the provision in the plan’s first step requiring the Palestinians to disarm and disband the Palestinian terrorist groups, as they had agreed.

Investigate US Support of Taliban
Investigate the reason the Bush Administration gave the Taliban $43 million in the spring of 2001.

So much more remains to be done. Simon will gladly elaborate on any issue.

The Tragedy of the Bush Foreign Policy

The Bush Administration foreign policy, supported by the Republican Congress, has been based on deceit, arrogance, ignorance and ultimately stupidity. It is now clear that the Pentagon had prepared plans for the invasion of both Afghanistan and Iraq well before the destruction of the Twin Towers. That catastrophe gave the Administration a basis for invading Afghanistan and a pretext for invading Iraq. What may not be generally known is that, once a base is established in Iraq, the plan calls next for the invasion of Iran and Syria.

There was absolutely no sane reason to attack Iraq, which was a threat to no one; not even its neighbors felt threatened. With nothing more to defend itself than AK-47 rifles, grenades and 1950’s version Russian tanks, unable to get a single airplane off the ground, Iraq was totally defenseless against American military technology. Our legitimate intelligence sources were completely correct in their assessment that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, no weapons programs in progress, and that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorists were mortal enemies. Forging ahead with the invasion against the better judgment of our allies, NATO and the UN, the Republicans have so far committed $166 billion of our tax dollars. They’ve cost us, as of this writing, more than 400 precious young lives and over 9000 very serious injuries, typically loss of limbs, which will forever change the life of the victim. And we are still counting, every day! The mantra that our troops are fighting for our freedom is a fraud, as is the latest rationale for the war in Iraq, that it was to overthrow Saddam and establish democracy.

FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES

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