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To the Editor:
Ms. Bumiller blithely asserts "[withdrawal from Iraq is] the issue, more than any other, on which the president's legacy will rest". She may be right, but that's far from clear. This administration has ruled in the Medellin case that the Supremacy Clause of our constitution doesn't mean what it say, has asserted powers of search and seizure that would have shocked our Founding Fathers, has seized for the Executive the power to negate duly enacted statutes, has detained, tortured and killed people if defiance of our treaty obligations and may have presided over the end of "The American Century" of world influence. To assert that Bush's Iraq venture--as costly, horrific and unjustified as it is--is the unique defining legacy of this administration is close one's eyes to the grand scale of the damage it has done to this country and to the world.
Barry Levine
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