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| 2004-12-22 |
| Fawaz Turki, disinherited@yahoo.com Watch for those guys in the new administration. They are still hell-bent on improving your social morality and your political culture. Never mind that the improvement of the state of your morality and politics is not on your mind this week as you prepare to celebrate the New Year, or that you had never at any time in the past reached out to these well-meaning folks and asked them to help you along in that endeavor. But, yep, you want to know right from wrong, check with George, Condi, Don, Paul, Dick, et. al. because they know what's best for you. And never mind that we had been around the block a few times, learning our poli-sci lessons the hard way, at the whetstone of activist experience, with some of us ending up either in jail, hunted down or in exile, because we had felt so strongly about the issue that we tried to do something about it. But the US, I say, is hell-bent on "introducing" you and me to Jeffersonian principles of civil rights, human rights, women's rights, political rights, democratic rights and heck, name the rights, and these bozos will take them out from under their armpit and hand them over to you like a bouquet of roses. Seriously, folks, the issue here is not the intrinsic worth of these values, which clearly are a necessary function of the growth of any vibrant society, but the hypocrisy and nuttiness of American foreign policy in our part of the world. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Just imagine what Fawaz could do if he had a little more Juche.... Take a prozac, lie down and relax. You'll feel better, and maybe you'll come up with something worth listening to. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-12-22 5:52:08 PM |
| #6 It's either genetic, or something's in the water. Collective stupidity. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-12-22 11:19:47 AM |
| #5 But, yep, you want to know right from wrong, check with George, Condi, Don, Paul, Dick, et. al. because they know what’s best for you. I beg to differ. These individuals "don't know what's best for you" but know what is best about America, and how the best of America (as always) actually knows what's best. |
| Posted by: Capt America 2004-12-22 11:03:58 AM |
| #4 note to the world's propagandists: That whole "Palestine" thing, it's just not working anymore. As for the whining about how your wildly acclaimed "report" wasn't sufficiently admired by the White House, because it was little more than an anti-American screed - it just shows how little you understand the concept that Democracy is a government "of the people". If you want democracy, you gotta break the habit of looking for a mommy or a daddy to fix your problems and blame when they don't buy you a new car. In a democracy, you are the mommy and daddy. So, you can grow up and be free, or you can spend your life living in the garage under someone else's rules...but blaming GW shows you just don't grasp the whole process. |
| Posted by: 2b 2004-12-22 8:00:20 AM |
| #3 "Just make sure you're not carrying an AK within shooting range of any US Military." Or me! |
| Posted by: raptor 2004-12-22 7:09:25 AM |
| #2 So would you buy a used car, or a master plan for democracy, from this hypocritical salesman? Not by a long shot. So you're against us. Just make sure you're not carrying an AK within shooting range of any US Military. At a conference on Middle East democracy in Morocco Dec. 1, attended by representatives from 30 countries, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, it would appear, according to media accounts, that Arab officials, along with delegates from nongovernmental groups, universally focused on how US policies in Palestine and Iraq were responsible for planting the seeds of terrorism in the region. But US officials rejected that, and Arab officials rejected the rejection. Translation: It's not our fault we support those who murder indiscriminately. Really. No, really, it isn't. We can't help it. We murder folks ourselves in our own countries and we support murderers in 'Palestine' and elsewhere. But it is all the US fault. Stop us before we kill again. Oh wait... That's what you are doing. I don’t know what it’s playing. Explain it to me, dear reader, because, I’ll find an explanation of the Stonehenge mystery and what those enigmatic Easter Island heads are saying before I can explain such a petulant posture by a country that dubs itself the greatest exporter of, eh, what is it, that’s right, democracy — which I take it means I’m able to read and write what I darn well please. So sneer along with me, will you? What's another four years of years of sneering against the 20 already in? |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-12-22 6:45:49 AM |
| #1 Never have so many strawmen been constructed and demolished in one screech, complete with Paleo stupidity and the implied Jooo bogeyman, in some time. Take a deep breath there Fawaz. Then shoot yourself if the urge to write comes over you again. Thank you very much for your input, however. My pony is very happy with the new fodder. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-12-22 3:31:49 AM |