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Story Date: 5/13/2004 11:53:50 PM
Candidate LaRouche critical of both Bush, Kerry policies
By Mark Scott
government@couriernews.com
The United States should never have invaded Iraq, a decision that has ultimately hurt America economically, presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche said Tuesday.
On a brief campaign stop in Russellville, LaRouche, a Democrat, said a stable Middle East politically is a key to economic prosperity in the U.S. While blaming President Bush for his perceived failures in foreign policy, he also said Democratic front-runner John Kerry has lost sight of many of his initial goals and will likely not defeat Bush if he is the Democrats’ nominee.
LaRouche is on the presidential ballot in 32 states, including Arkansas. His visit to the area coincided with President Bush’s visit to Van Buren Tuesday and Kerry’s Little Rock visit Wednesday.
LaRouche said America’s economy is in a “crumbling phase, inches away from a crash,” and blamed foreign policy problems in the Middle East as a catalyst for economic problems at home. He called the war in Iraq a “source of danger to the United States.”
“We have no interest remaining in Iraq and there was no reason to go in there in the first place,” LaRouche told The Courier. “Now we’re faced with how to get out.”
He pointed to rising oil costs as an initial indication of what is to come economically if policy changes aren’t made.
LaRouche outlines his foreign policy positions in campaign material titled “Southwest Asia: The LaRouche Doctrine,” one that blasts Bush and Kerry for their slow reaction to international relations.
“The very future existence of the USA, and much more besides, are being put in terrible peril by current economic and military policies of both the U.S. Bush Administration and the matching, negligent follies of Senator Kerry’s presently ill-advised campaign,” LaRouche said in that document. “...Neither of the two rival candidates has much of anything really significant and good to say on any essential matter confronting the nation at this time.”
LaRouche said Democrats are becoming frustrated because Kerry isn’t showing himself as a strong opponent to Bush. He predicted further economic problems before the Democratic Convention this summer and said those problems may shift the positions of delegates at the convention.
“(Democrats) hoped that Kerry would be the ‘Great White Hope’ candidate,” LaRouche said. “But he’s not doing that job.
“The Democrats are still clinging to the idea that the great white horse will come in and save them from Bush, but Kerry’s not getting that job done,” he said. In campaign material, he accused Kerry of engaging in a “pathetic ‘me, too‚’ campaign” that mirrors Bush.
LaRouche said his campaign includes groups not typically courted by front-running Republicans and Democrats, including young adults, minority groups and low-wage earners. He said those groups are typically shut out of the political process.
He said his presidency would mirror Franklin Roosevelt’s, lauding the former president for bringing America out of the Great Depression and building it into “the most powerful and productive country in the world.”
Other campaign material distributed by LaRouche titled “Children of Satan” and “Children of Satan II” criticizes the “ignoble liars behind Bush’s no-exit war” and specifically Vice President Dick Cheney.
LaRouche has been a candidate for president numerous times before.
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