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| 2004-10-13 | |
| Maybe there's one good reason - just one - for re-electing George W Bush, and that's to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling actions, and answer for his own lies, rather than wish the job on a Democrat who will then get blamed for his predecessor's follies. Probably no American president in all history has been so universally hated abroad as George W Bush: for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order to unleash an illegal war - and now anarchy - upon a country that like too many others around the world was suffering under a hideous dictatorship, but had no hand in 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction, and no record of terrorism except as an ally of the US in a dirty war against Iran. Is your president a great war leader because he allowed himself to be manipulated by a handful of deluded ideologues? Is Tony Blair a great war leader because he committed Britain's troops, foreign policy and domestic security to the same hare-brained adventure? You are voting in November. We will vote next year. Yet the outcome in both countries will in large part depend on the same question: how long can the lies last now that the truth has finally been told? The Iraq war was planned long before 9/11. Osama provided the excuse. Iraq paid the price. American kids paid the price. British kids paid the price. Our politicians lied to us.
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| Posted by:mojo |
| #14 Just saved an Ohio voter from being pestered. And, as a bonus, I entered the letter contest, too. This is so much fun. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2004-10-13 5:00:16 PM |
| #13 SAC: Peace Is Our Profession (War Is Just A Hobby) |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-10-13 2:40:29 PM |
| #12 ;-) Matt |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-10-13 2:22:22 PM |
| #11 Hilarious. Shades of Monty Python: a trio of sneering, condescending, patently anti-American snobs, including the world's most prominent atheist! Rove must have written this. Hard to imagine the GU's editors are so stupid as to create their own version of Lord Haw Haw (Lord Richard Daw Daw?) |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 2:18:10 PM |
| #10 A smack-down of these Three Stooges' more egregious idiocies: Le Carre: The Iraq war was planned long before 9/11. Yep, about 1992, when arch-realpolitiker Bush 41's refusal to honor the Shi'a and Kurdish uprising outraged true liberals like Wolfowitz. Also, it was Clinton who first made "regime change in Iraq the official policy of the United States." While Bush was waging his father's war . One of the stupidest canards of all. Bush's father refused to overthrow Saddam! GW Bush broke ranks with his father and Scowcroft and all the other cynical realpolitikers in finally summoning the will and courage to end Saddam's slaughterhouse. please don't feel isolated from the Europe you twice saved Perhaps our "isolation" is due to our disgust at being forced, yet again, to bear the burden of destroying fascist threats that Europeans are unwilling or unable to combat. Lady Fraser: If you vote for Kerry, you will help to avert a move backwards towards women's suffering. But it was Bush who destroyed the greatest enemy of women the modern world has seen, the viciously misogynistic medieval Taliban regime! Women in Afghanistan now are voting, running for office, attending school, running businesses-- and all of this is precisely due to Bush's war to overthrow the Taliban. Richard Dawkins: [Overthrowing Saddam] is the Tony Martin school of foreign policy [Martin was a householder who shot dead a burglar who had broken into his house in 1999]. It's not how civilised countries, who follow the rule of law, behave. No comment necessary. This smug, sneering idiot's sarcastic and condescending vitriol is as good as any campaign weapon in Rove's armory. |
| Posted by: lex 2004-10-13 2:15:52 PM |
| #9 The Ohio electorate oughta get hazard pay for all the nonsense they've had to put up with this year... It's not all bad. At least, we're not all insane yet. I spoke to the local Board of Elections, and they said they'd found ONE questionable registration this year. Of course, we're a primarily Republican county, so... |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-10-13 2:14:26 PM |
| #8 The Ohio electorate oughta get hazard pay for all the nonsense they've had to put up with this year... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-13 2:11:31 PM |
| #7 "Whose turn is it to keep the ICBM codes?" I vote for either Frank G. or .com -- let's keep life interesting. |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-10-13 1:58:48 PM |
| #6 You guys know, right, that the above is a part of this effort by the Guardian to influence voters in Clark County, Ohio. You send the Guardian your address on that page, and they'll send you the home address of a voter in that county who has not declared a political affiliation. The idea, then, is to harrass them to vote for Kerry. (Or Bush, but it's the Guardian, so let's be real here.) There's a contest for best letter: first prize is a trip to Clark County, Ohio (oh, the excitement) to harrass voters in person during the last days of the campaign. Be sure and follow the other links to the right, too. Whose turn is it to keep the ICBM codes? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2004-10-13 1:40:13 PM |
| #5 Articles like this hearten me. I've read many of them in the last week and they all sound as if they are preparing themselves for the inevitability of a GW win. |
| Posted by: 2c 2004-10-13 1:28:58 PM |
| #4 Another reason I 'm voting W. I love to see and hear theses foaming at the mouth moonbat lefties make jack asses out of themselves. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-10-13 1:16:03 PM |
| #3 "Probably no American president in all history has been so universally hated abroad as George W Bush." I was living in Europe in the early 80s and I can honestly say that they hated Reagan much more than they hate Bush. The demonstrations were much larger and the criminal actions against American companies were more frequent. We were warned (I was in the Military) not to engage in ANY political discussions with locals because the climate was so volatile. Also there were protestors at the gates of every American Base, Consulate, and Embassy. LOUD AND VIOLENT demonstrations. If anything I think Bush isn't trying hard enough to piss them off! Of course the bar was set pretty high by Reagan. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-10-13 1:03:24 PM |
| #2 Maybe there's one good reason - just one - for re-electing George W Bush, and that's to force him to live with the consequences... Sounds like they're getting ready to accept Kerry probably won't win. Hey, whatever helps 'em sleep at night. Dingbats. |
| Posted by: nada 2004-10-13 12:56:10 PM |
| #1 "his contempt for institutions of world government" Excuse me, but did we agree to submit to "world government" while I was watching the baseball game? Are there any forms I have to fill out? When can I expect a check from the Swedish government? |
| Posted by: Matt 2004-10-13 12:36:36 PM |