There are 9 Democrats currently running in the primaries for the President of United States (Elections in 2004, Results in 2005, if Florida is still voting). Out of the nine many will drop out after the primaries. One of the top runners is John Kerry. He voted for the war against Iraq. On being asked if he had problem supporting the President, he said
bq. “I have no question about the decision I made,” he said. “Even Hans Blix said they weren’t in compliance.”
So he did not make his decision on those 16 words the President said. Nice to know.
Update: And what did Bill Clinton say about Saddam in 1998
bq. Hussein would “go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he’ll use the arsenal.”
[from “best of the web”:http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110003757, “Washington Post”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8235-2003Jul17.html?nav=hptoc_eo]

California has a deficit of “34 billion”:https://varnam.org/archives/000147.html and there is a recall campaign going on for the Governor Gray Davis who is a democrat. The White House has projected a “deficit of 455b”:http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/197/nation/White_House_projects_deficit_of_455b+.shtml. So is this is a good reason to recall President Bush ?

“USINPAC”:http://www.usinpac.com/250503_nr.asp is an Indian Political Action Commitee representing India in Capitol Hill and the White House. Recently they met with the Democratic candidates for the 2004 Presidential elections and here are is what happened.
Senator Lieberman (D-CT) said that he is committed to having Indian Americans in his Administration.
Governor Dean stated that although General Musharraf’s regime was not democratically elected, the alternative of a fundamentalist regime was much worse, which may be true. But praising Musharraf in an Indian crowd does not really go well among Indians.
bq. The USINPAC also met Senator Orin Hatch and Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Hatch said that he would like to charter a plane and take a group of Senators to India to get a better understanding of the country and how US and India can work better together.

California, the world’s fifth largest economy is having a $38 billion deficit and the blame is on Governor Gray Davis. He was re-elected to office only last year, but there is a serious campaign to recall him. But finally it is all about money.
bq. “California voters back governor recall:”:http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9E96FFBC-A917-46CC-9FE6-509EFF50FF63%7D&siteid=google&dist=google Still, being presented with considerations related to a recall effort appears to give voters pause. For instance, when informed that a recall effort could cost $25 million, the pro-recall majority evaporated.

I have always wondered why Arundhati Roy is against democracy and prefers dictators like Musharraf, Saddam Hussein etc. I got my answer in her speech at Centre for Economic and Social Rights in New York on May 13th
“Democracy is the Free World’s whore, says Arundhati Roy”:http://www.sulekha.com/redirectnh.asp?cid=309501
bq. “Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis … every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning,” she said. “Democracy is the Free World’s whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes, available to be used and abused at will.”
See that is the problem with democracy. Sometimes you have to accept the fact that there are people who do not agree with your point of view. In Saddam’s land, you never had that problem. You could have a different point of view, so long as you were willing to spent rest of your life as “a dead body”:http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0515graves15.html.
She did not spare the judicary as well.
bq. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market means they are on sale to the highest bidder, she said.
Call the Judiciary stupid if you want, but they do not “like it a bit”:http://www.ashoo.org/blog/archives/cat_moron_watch.html#000114 when you violate the rules of the land and “build houses in protected land”:https://varnam.org/archives/000084.html.
Again, don’t you see the irony here. You are able to come to United States and criticize it in public. Now go to Cuba, China, Iran or North Korea and say the same thing about their administration.

“US Congress probes Pakistan’s role in aiding terrorism”:http://www.usinpac.com/70503_nr.asp
bq. After the vote, Rep. Faleomavaega stated that he harbored no ill-will against the people of Pakistan. ‘It would be hypocritical for the United States to support a dictatorship despite a firm, long-standing policy against coup instigators. Today, Pakistan remains a dictatorship, while only a few years ago it was a democracy. By contrast, India has demonstrated that democracy can take root and prosper in non-Western cultures as well, even under the most difficult circumstances.’
Continue reading “Indian Political Activism” →

As more and more “American Tax Dollars”:http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=20204 are being given to Musharraf for his support in the war against terrorism, we have more information coming out about the murder of Danny Pearl
Continue reading “Your Tax Dollars At Work” →

“Romila Thapar’s appointment to Library of Congress opposed”:http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/apr/25us1.htm
bq. regards to India, she is an avowed antagonist of India’s Hindu civilization as a well-known Marxist. She represents a completely Euro-centric worldview. I fail to see how she can be the correct choice to represent India’s ancient history and civilization. She completely disavows that India ever had a history. The ongoing campaign by Romila Thapar and others to discredit Hindu civilization is a war of cultural genocide. By your unfortunate selection of Thapar, America is now aiding and abetting this effort.
Why would you want to oppose an eminent historian ? Take a look at Rajeev Srinivasan’s article in Rediff, “Historicide: Censoring the past… and the present”:http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jan/03rajeev.htm