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H.D.S. Greenway

The imperial overreach

By H.D.S. Greenway
May 8, 2007

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LISTENING TO President Bush's petulant tones lambasting Congress for questioning his war, I had a feeling that what we are seeing in Washington has been going on for close to a thousand years in the political tradition in which America was formed. Rulers reach for more and more power until their parliaments and barons think things have gone far enough ... (Full article: 743 words)

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