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April 7, 2008 at 15:48:52

First 100 Days

by David Swanson Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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A friend is drafting a proposal for the first 100 days of a new administration. I sketched out a dream scenario below. What do you think?

Day 1: Renounce wars of aggression and apologize to the world for those in the past. Anounce the complete withdrawal from Iraq over the next 6 months.

Day 2: Announce the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Day 3: Commit to ending the U.S. military occupation of nations around the world and present a plan for closing foreign bases at a pace of 100 per year over the next 8 years.

Day 4: Announce a plan to end corporate trade pacts and remove the United States from the WTO.

Day 5: Deliver to Congress at end of a week of private meetings a green energy jobs initiative proposal.

Day 6 - Day 7 Put the solar panels back on the White House roof and build wind mills on the National Mall.

Day 8: Announce the planned convening of a Middle Eastern peace and disarmament conference.

Day 9: Announce legislation making it a felony punishable by life in prison for a president to take a nation into war without a congressional declaration of war.

Day 10: Announce transparency policy, reopen FOIA offices, and direct the Justice Department to begin to enforce all outstanding Congressional subpoenas.

Day 11: Expose the history and extent of all warrantless domestic spying programs, eliminate them, and begin to prosecute those responsible for them.

Day 12: Deliver to Congress at end of a week of private meetings a proposal for a massive new investment in foreign aid.

Day 15: Announce the convening of a Single Payer Health Care task force.

Day 16: Expose the history and extent of past detention, rendition, and torture policies, end them, and begin to prosecute those responsible.

Day 17: Announce a new GI bill, a ban on the use of stop-loss policies, and the cessation of all employment of private mercenaries by the United States.

Day 18: Announce the elimination of the CIA, the NSA, and the complete collection of intelligence agencies.

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http://www.davidswanson.org

DAVID SWANSON is a co-founder of After Downing Street, a writer and activist, and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. He is a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, and serves on the Executive Council of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997.