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That Bush speech
BillieTheBot
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some gems from last night's performance...
ON HEALTH:
Well it works for everyone else…
So no change there… the rich get top medical care and the poor has to rely on charities.
ON DRUG ADDITION AND TREATMENT:
ON FOREIGN POLICY:
AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR: BUSH’S WISDOM ON THE “WAR ON TERROR AND IRAQ!”: No doubt lack of time prevented him from reminding everyone that many of those people who “seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world” were once great allies of the USA, and while this was so America wasn’t terribly concerned about their ambitions of Hitlerism or militarism. Including (but not exclusive to) Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and, lest we forget, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
Vintage stuff!
ON HEALTH:
The American system of medicine is a model of skill and innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our lives. Yet for many people, medical care costs too much -- and many have no coverage at all. These problems will not be solved with a nationalized health care system that dictates coverage and rations care.
Well it works for everyone else…
Instead, we must work toward a system in which all Americans have a good insurance policy, choose their own doctors, and seniors and low-income Americans receive the help they need.
So no change there… the rich get top medical care and the poor has to rely on charities.
ON DRUG ADDITION AND TREATMENT:
Our nation is blessed with recovery programs that do amazing work. One of them is found at the Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A man in the program said, "God does miracles in people's lives, and you never think it could be you."
ON FOREIGN POLICY:
This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. Is he just blatantly taking the piss or is his vision of “seeking peace” completely different from everyone else’s?In the Middle East, we will continue to seek peace between a secure Israel and a democratic Palestine.
What he fails to mention is that all this food aid is barely 10% of what is needed to survive. A more effective approach would be canceling all Third World debt immediately and invest heavily in Fair Trade initiatives. To his credit, this is not Bush’s or America’s fault alone but everyone’s.Across the Earth, America is feeding the hungry -- more than 60 percent of international food aid comes as a gift from the people of the United States. As our nation moves troops and builds alliances to make our world safer, we must also remember our calling as a blessed country is to make this world better.
AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR: BUSH’S WISDOM ON THE “WAR ON TERROR AND IRAQ!”:
Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation.
This threat is new; America's duty is familiar. Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world. In each case, their ambitions of cruelty and murder had no limit. In each case, the ambitions of Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by the will of free peoples, by the strength of great alliances, and by the might of the United States of America.
No doubt lack of time prevented him from reminding everyone that many of those people who “seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world” were once great allies of the USA, and while this was so America wasn’t terribly concerned about their ambitions of Hitlerism or militarism. Including (but not exclusive to) Francisco Franco, Augusto Pinochet and, lest we forget, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.Vintage stuff!
When in doubt or need of reassurance quote September 11th- it works wonders.Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein.
And Bush should know about it, since his country happily provided many of the said weapons, and funnily enough didn’t seem to care for all those poor Iraqi citizens at the time.The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages -- leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind, or disfigured.
Don’t worry Geroge, I’m sure God is all the way behind you in your moral crusade to bring “freedom” to the world.We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know -- we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.
May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.
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I agree with the war for varying reasons, I still think we need UN support though.
As for Bush, he's just an idiot redneck hick.
His view of those countries who sell and exchange weapons etc is so awful, as he has no ability for self analysis...
how can he (And thousands of Americans) be so blind.
here's hoping that he is out in the next election (OF COURSE HE WILL BE).
If this was the best he could come up with in an attempt to make people vote for him again then he is deluded!!
does that still work in America...are people that stupid?
America has one of the highest number of god-fearing, church-going folk in the world.
I went to America a few months before 911, and then again a few months afterwards. And if there was a lot of usage of 'God Save America' before the attacks, you have no idea how spread it is now. I must have seen that phrase at least 20 times a day during my holiday: on the road, in shop windows, on homes...
The funniest thing was stopping in a little family-run diner in Ohio. The owners would put the Vatican to shame in terms of sense of religion. The words God and Jesus were found absolutely everywhere from the menus to the Specials lunch blackboard. They even had a display unit selling Bible food- "nutrition as God had intended" in which they sold only the food that gets a mention in the Bible.
Oh well, at least wine is allowed.
sure, as a majority of americans beleive in God or other diety, it plays well with the people being addressed. as much as you may despise religion, you should respect ones right to beleive in one.
its just that I find it so hard to accept America as a 'religious' country when they show no signs of having any understanding of other religion and religious faith in other countries.
Personally I believe that the god fearing American right are in many ways brainwashed...Along with their swearing allegiance to the flag stuff.
Ive little doubt that if the God of Christianity exists, he has never blessed the connivance, duplicity, and overt/covert militarism and economic power-mongering of my nation. All these things are the perview of the other guy...
Basically, individuals may be sincere Christians (though Id not say that of any of our current corrupt leaders) but pluralistic nations cannot be by definition.
From an editorial in the NYPOST
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as for few cells. it's all hot air bullshit speak. sound bites that will be forgotten.
Dont let drivel put stars in your eyes pnj, there was no substance, alot of empassioned and sentimental condescention, flag waving, false piety (you certainly cant believe that anyone getting to the top spot in the nation is not corrupt), and fist waving. All of what we had before with a little more fatherlyness.
He didnt convince me of anything save his frighteningly transparent insincerity and propagandising. He also didnt fail to cloud the issue between the WoT and attacking Iraq. lol. He's no doubt muttering it to himself so often that he actually thinks unsubstantiated and unproven allegation is defacto truth. :eek2:
If you want to understand America, not that you should agree with America, this is a core value Bush expressed.
"The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others."
Which is why America is hated so much by poorer nations!!
If we go to war unilaterally, those who are cheering now will be out on the streets with their fists in the air shouting for Bush's blood when the whole geo-political situation in the Middle East blows up in our faces as a cause of his half-truths and incessant war-mongering. Mark my words in years to come.
Fundamentalist don't like America because of our religious freedom. We have separation of church and state. They hate that. And they'll hate us even more in the near future because America is not going to allow any country to be an enabler of terror.
France will be the hated country when the Iraqi exiles are in power by April. They allowed Saddam to use the oil for food and medicine funds to buy technologies that will be used against the US and the free world. Anyone who is ignorant of what just happened in London- the Al Qaeda operative coming from Baghdad to a Northern Iraq Al Qaeda cell that murdered someone last Spring with ricin to London with ricin...has their own motives. And they're not in the best interests of the UK.
I suggest you stop basing your whole world view on the rhetoric of Bush and start examining what the rest of the world has to say about us. It isnt pleasant.
Perhaps when youve grown up a bit and experienced life outside the US (if you ever decide to spend time as an ex-pat) youll have a more objective view on how sanitanized the information braodcast to the public in the US truly is. Until then youll have to learn to sift the fact from the propganda for yourself, from whichever side does the talking (including, yes Greeny, the left).
I think Clandestine is so right. We in the West know not what it is like to live on the streets, begging for food, shelter and compassion.
We do not know the hardship that war can bring (even during the 1st and 2nd world war people didn't experience what other nations have since)
If Bush is determined to expand his empire by crushing each rebel state one by one until he reaches France, then we will all suffer as much if not more than those poorer countries who see America, with all its wealth, handing out breadcrumbs to them with one hand and bombing them to pieces with the other.
I suggest you do a little comparison of the places where wars have been fought by western powers and the wealth there to the poverty stricken countries where western powers have not fought wars, or have not fought in many, many years. Interesting how most of the poorest countries in the world haven't bee "bombed to pieces" by anybody.
I'm starting to be really worried that the war on Iraq will be used to test the international community's resolve against wars elsewhere. If the US/UK go to war without full UN approval and yet convince some that they did the right thing, all supported by rumours and half-truths about the apparent danger Saddam posed, then Bush and Poodle Blair will be encouraged to continue their campaign using the same tactics.
If some people are convinced that Saddam is a ticking bomb armed to the teeth with all sorts of WMDs just because their Almighty President / Prime Minister tell them so, then Bush and Blair will be tempted to employ the same tactics again wherever appropriate.
We don't like Iran's rulers? No problem, tell the world the CIA has evidence of Iran's WMDs programme and bombs will be raining down in no time. North Koreans pissing us off by their outrageous attempt to arm themselves with nuclear weapons? A few cries of "they are the biggest danger to peace" and the B52s will be on their way. Yemen a bit too friendly to terrorists? Just mention 911 a few times and the cruise missiles will be flying in the night to hit their targets with absolute pinpoint accuracy (or not, as it is often the case).
Blair was being heckled about the war on Iraq by his own MPs yesterday until the man exploded. When one MP shouted "So who will be next?" Blair looked back and, with a smug smile that said 'fuck you' all over, replied "North Korea". I kid you not.
Emperor Bush and his poodle are growing cockier by the day. I wonder how many more countries in the Middle East or Asia will be "liberated" in the next 3 years.
You mean like across the African continent? Or maybe in Asia?
Or is it only their resolve against wars that the United States is involved in that is being tested?
Do a bit of research and see how many wars are being waged right now. What about the international community's resolve against them?
But they are about to be...if Bush gets his way...which is my point...DOH!! :rolleyes:
No, they aren't. Do the research.
What's wrong, C. You can't look up something as simple as what the poorest nations in the world are?
Btw, you do realize that not all resources are on the internet? Serious history is generally not on the 'net for example.
Russia, France and Germany are going to pay for thekeeping Saddam in power and betting that the United States would be pushed around by the EU or anyone else. Don't take my word for it, you'll see in another month.