2008 Woodie Awards
January drawing near as Iowa caucuses fast approaching
Holly Berkowitz
Issue date: 9/27/07 Section: Opinion
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The Iowa Caucuses are fast approaching and soon citizens from across the state will be placing their vote for a presidential candidate.
As an Iowan voter, I believe that we have a responsibility to ask hard questions in order to hold candidates and our nation accountable.
For starters, we need accountability to leave Iraq with honor. Weapons inspectors and even this Bush-Cheney White House have found no "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq. Therefore maybe we need to question the Bush-Cheney White House claims.
As far as the U.S. Constitution goes, we need civil laws of civil nations and moral laws of reciprocity to guide our nation toward a safer future.
In the matter of homeland Security, the Pentagon warned the Bush-Cheney White House in 2004 that global climate change was more of a national security threat than terrorists.
We need scientific literacy to protect our nation and world from the consequences of human-caused warming.
Another future issue we need to address is the necessity to invest in hidden genetic potentials of our children, of cities, and of the natural world to produce riches enough to count. Then we are well on our way to fixing the biochemistrical times of our lives and themselvles.
We need ability and will to reach beyond the immediate and obvious enough to plan for a better future of, by, and for all to share.
Finally, I believe that our economy needs to build more than consumptive cash and "tax cuts" for the wealthy. We need to count critical flows of air and oxygen and safe water and soil and sun and care that sustain us. We can do it.
As an Iowan voter, I believe that we have a responsibility to ask hard questions in order to hold candidates and our nation accountable.
For starters, we need accountability to leave Iraq with honor. Weapons inspectors and even this Bush-Cheney White House have found no "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq. Therefore maybe we need to question the Bush-Cheney White House claims.
As far as the U.S. Constitution goes, we need civil laws of civil nations and moral laws of reciprocity to guide our nation toward a safer future.
In the matter of homeland Security, the Pentagon warned the Bush-Cheney White House in 2004 that global climate change was more of a national security threat than terrorists.
We need scientific literacy to protect our nation and world from the consequences of human-caused warming.
Another future issue we need to address is the necessity to invest in hidden genetic potentials of our children, of cities, and of the natural world to produce riches enough to count. Then we are well on our way to fixing the biochemistrical times of our lives and themselvles.
We need ability and will to reach beyond the immediate and obvious enough to plan for a better future of, by, and for all to share.
Finally, I believe that our economy needs to build more than consumptive cash and "tax cuts" for the wealthy. We need to count critical flows of air and oxygen and safe water and soil and sun and care that sustain us. We can do it.
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Anne
posted 10/13/07 @ 1:16 PM CST
Hear hear!! everyone, go research the candidates and issues! We need to put social environmental issues in the forefront!
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