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2005-01-25 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by ed 2005-01-25 12:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Keep your freedom and democracy to yourself
President Bush: Keep your freedom and democracy to yourself

The international community does not want George W. Bushâs Freedom and Democracy neither does it want its Hearts and Minds won over by Shock and Awe tactics, thank you very much. If George Bush was elected President of the United States of America, why does he address himself to the rest of the world?

Letâs face it, if there was an election in the international community, George W. Bush might get elected as a member of a freak show, or perhaps a kitchen hand, handing out plastic turkeys in tents but for the leadership of a country? Perhaps, in a handful of countries like Albania, for instance, which might think first about the bank account rather than any notion of political leadership but in the international community as a whole, the NO vote would be far in excess of 80%, as is patently evident in numerous opinion polls.

If President Bush is an example to go by, we do not want his freedom and democracy. We do not want a model of freedom and democracy which sees the President of a country slink into his office in an armoured car which resembles a tank, guarded by 13.000 bodyguards plus countless other security personnel, creeping along a route lined by thousands of protesters.

We do not want his freedom and democracy which saw him slip out the back door of Number 10 Downing Street on his visit to London, the first such escape route used by any international leader any time in history, and during whose visit for the first time ever a statue of the President of the United States of America was toppled, to the cheers of thousands of lookers-on. Jimmy carter got out of his car and walked to the White House. Why canât Bush? The answer is simple: people do not like his Freedom and Democracy.

We do not want his freedom and democracy which is so popular that even in London, the capital city of the country and government closest to Washington, his state visit was restricted to three streets and a hurried trip to Tony Blairâs constituency in a heavily guarded motorcade.

We do not want his freedom and democracy, which saw the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq, a country invaded upon a pretext which did not exist. We do not want a freedom and democracy based upon barefaced lies.

We do not want a freedom and democracy based on the US model, where the electoral system can be rigged so easily, in this, one of the few countries which still has the death penalty. We do not want a freedom and democracy based on Washingtonâs flawed model, controlled by a clique of corporate elitists who gravitate around the White House, making a mockery of their people and a mockery of democracy and which practise a policy of freedom of the press which makes the Gestapo look like fairy godmothers.

The international community is made up of hundreds of sovereign nations with models of government which reflect in some cases thousands of years of history and culture, which is to be respected, not obliterated in a wave of blind arrogance fuelled by the greed of Washingtonâs invisible masters.

The international community does not want, nor does it need, the model imposed by a country barely 200 years old, with serious human rights problems, whose history is associated with ethnic cleansing of its native population, whose history is based upon the illegal deportation of races, a country whose military forces even today practise torture and which has concentration camps in more than one continent where the terms of the Geneva Convention are broken.

George Bush can keep his freedom and democracy to himself and to his own country. Nobody asked for his opinion abroad and nobody is interested in his opinion abroad. Each and every movement of the US regime outside its territory will be seen as belligerence, interference, and arrogance and is bound to produce an exponential reaction of hatred in the four corners of the Earth.

The very notion that George Bush can make a speech to begin his second and last term as president of the USA, referring to the international community, gives rise to the notion that he has a self-opinionated and inflated sense of his own importance.

Who asked for his opinion outside the USA and basically, who gives a two penny damn about what he believes in? It is his problem and that of the people he claims elected him. As for the restauguration "party", neither do a substantial proportion of American citizens., take a look at Iraq to see how very successful his foreign policy can be. Two years on, his forces are on the defensive, have lost control of the situation and there are now more Resistance Fighters than US troops.

Washingtonâs Freedom and Democracy, anyone? No thanks. Let George Bush sort his own problems out and leave the rest of the world alone. Nobody called him and nobody wants him and judging by his in
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Posted by forest hell burn the bush 2005-01-25 3:47:08 PM|| 2005-01-25 3:47:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow.

Sounds like coming off a crack high is really very painful and disconcerting.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-25 3:50:38 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-01-25 3:50:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Naw...he's cribbing from Pravda. Punk.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-25 3:54:15 PM|| 2005-01-25 3:54:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 FHBTB: We do not want a model of freedom and democracy which sees the President of a country slink into his office in an armoured car which resembles a tank, guarded by 13.000 bodyguards plus countless other security personnel, creeping along a route lined by thousands of protesters.

That's what freedom is all about. First, the technical inaccuracy - the armored limo doesn't resemble a tank (which fires a 120mm tank round and has over a foot of armor). The tank weigh 70 tons; the car weighs about 2.5 tons. Comparing a tank to the presidential limo is like comparing a lion to a pussycat.

Second the fact that he needs to be surrounded by bodyguards comes from the fact that Americans are free. Saddam could stroll around in the street without much protection because many who might have opposed him had long been killed - and those who tried to kill him would have their entire families tortured to death. Hitler equally did not require much protection - his secret police efficiently killed off any threats to his security, even if they simply thought that he was a bad person. The fact that FHBTB is able to write these articles while staying alive is proof that we live in a free country.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-01-25 3:55:21 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-01-25 3:55:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "As we wandered through the Rantburg Community Playground & Rifle Range, trying to pick up the signal from Boris' tracking collar, we caught sight of the biggest troll yet! Crikey! It's a Portugese Red-Striped Troll, sometimes called Bancroft-Hinchey's Troll, a huge one, verbose as they come. They're dangerous when cornered, but seein' as I'm with the other Steves in the Army of Steve, I'm not worried. 'C'mon mate . . . he's a beaut, ain't he!"

Posted by Mike 2005-01-25 4:14:02 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:14:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 The international community is made up of..

Screw you and your "international community". If y'all can't put principle before economic gain, fine, then we'll do the dirty work. Just go to the corner, sit down, and shut the hell up.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-25 4:18:02 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:18:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Dammit, he snuck out of his cage when I wasn't looking. He posted this drivel as a article earlier, when I read it in the Holding Tank, I flushed it. Oh, well, time to break out the mop and disifectent.

Posted by Steve 2005-01-25 4:54:34 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:54:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 It is not Bush's fault. While visiting Israel (henceforth the Illegal Zionist Entity = IZE) several years ago he had a transmitter/controller instaled in his head, and since then all his actions are dictated by the IZE controllers.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-01-25 4:56:58 PM|| 2005-01-25 4:56:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Yupp! The "International Community", now there's a group of folks who really got there st together! Just look at the global problem-solving machine whirr like a finely tuned foreign car! No need for any American ideas!

Posted by Janos Hunyadi 2005-01-25 6:14:00 PM|| 2005-01-25 6:14:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 :: waving hi to Janos ::

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-25 6:26:41 PM|| 2005-01-25 6:26:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 No need for any American ideas!

Nor money, neither. *grin*

Posted by eLarson 2005-01-25 6:27:32 PM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-01-25 6:27:32 PM|| Front Page Top

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