MADISON, Wis. -- The drug war. A war waged by the U.S. government against its own citizenry. The losses we as U.S. citizens have experienced are enormous. More than one million people arrested, shackled and made prisoners of this war. The real question is how far will we let the government go?

Democrats and Republicans on both sides of the political spectrum have unilaterally decided, without many debates open to the public, to escalate the drug war. Pentagon military machine officials long ago dismissed the idea that impoverished countries should have national sovereignty. In the last couple of years we have sat back and watched the U.S. government bomb the countries of Sudan, Iraq, Serbia and Afghanistan. Not content with immiserating U.S. citizens, our rulers now have their sights locked on Colombia.

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