New article about "Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change"

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http://www.channelcincinnati.com/helenthomas/3715615/detail.html
America At A Crossroads
Group Sees Election Deciding Diplomatic Future
POSTED: 3:40 pm CDT September 8, 2004

WASHINGTON -- America is at a crossroads that will determine the foreign policy direction of the United States for decades to come.
At stake is whether the muscle-flexing, neo-conservative presidential advisers who aim to transform the Middle East by force will be returned to power.

In a Labor Day speech, saying the war was "right for America then and right for America now," Bush appears to have adopted the old tactic that if you keep saying the same thing over and over, people will begin to believe it. Madison Avenue is based on that principle.

Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic challenger, has called the Iraq war the "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." In that assessment, Kerry has the strong support of a group of retired veteran diplomats and military commanders. The group of 40 calls itself "Diplomats & Military Commanders for Change."

These specialists in foreign policy and national security maintain that a "regime change" is in order for this country to get back on track and restore its great prestige in the world. The group includes Democrats and Republicans -- and many of them voted for Bush four years ago. They came together in a common cause, distressed that the United States is pursuing polices that have "endangered national security and misled the people on the Iraqi war."

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