The Reason Why
by George McGovern
April 21, 2003

"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" (in the Crimean War)"

Thanks to the most crudely partisan decision in the history of the Supreme Court, the nation has been given a President of painfully limited wisdom and compassion and lacking any sense of the nation's true greatness. Appearing to enjoy his role as Commander in Chief of the armed forces above all other functions of his office, and unchecked by a seemingly timid Congress, a compliant Supreme Court, a largely subservient press and a corrupt corporate plutocracy, George W. Bush has set the nation on a course for one-man rule.

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