Thus, Bush and Cheney had to engage in industrial-scale lying to the American people to gin up support for a phony war that was really being fought as a reelection stunt in advance of their 2004 contest against John Kerry.
That was my immediate reaction when Dubya gave his triumphant MISSION ACCOMPLISHED speech, standing…
Thus, Bush and Cheney had to engage in industrial-scale lying to the American people to gin up support for a phony war that was really being fought as a reelection stunt in advance of their 2004 contest against John Kerry.
That was my immediate reaction when Dubya gave his triumphant MISSION ACCOMPLISHED speech, standing in front of that banner. OMG, I thought, horrified. The mission he just accomplished was ensuring his reelection! Who cares if a couple hundred thousand Iraqis die in the process.
Truth be known Tony is that people really don't care, they really don't, about the pain and suffering of others, empathy has limits. But the pain and suffering of others is an excuse to advance an agenda.
People waste their time, energy, and emotions on people at a distance, when those people at a distance are also people who inflict harm and suffering on others.
Take,for example, Feminists and Queers for Palestine. The people behind the sign wouldn't last 24 hrs in Palestine, Gaza or any Muslim country.
No one is more oppressed that females in Afghanistan, but you don't hear any whining or kvetching about poor oppressed Afghan females do you.
And you don't see any popular movement about the millions of Sudanese that are being starved and ethnically cleansed by the Sudan government.
A hundred thousand dead Iraqi's are an excuse.
By the way I marched against the 1st gulf war, because I knew it was a specious fraud.
There is no difference between the Kuwaiti's and Saddam, six of one half a dozen of the other, that was an internecine quarrel, and we had no business interfering, in fact were it not for the 1st Gulf war, there would have been no 9/11, no Iraq War and all that followed
One thing has led to another, this time a real domino scenario..
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Thus, Bush and Cheney had to engage in industrial-scale lying to the American people to gin up support for a phony war that was really being fought as a reelection stunt in advance of their 2004 contest against John Kerry.
That was my immediate reaction when Dubya gave his triumphant MISSION ACCOMPLISHED speech, standing in front of that banner. OMG, I thought, horrified. The mission he just accomplished was ensuring his reelection! Who cares if a couple hundred thousand Iraqis die in the process.
Truth be known Tony is that people really don't care, they really don't, about the pain and suffering of others, empathy has limits. But the pain and suffering of others is an excuse to advance an agenda.
People waste their time, energy, and emotions on people at a distance, when those people at a distance are also people who inflict harm and suffering on others.
Take,for example, Feminists and Queers for Palestine. The people behind the sign wouldn't last 24 hrs in Palestine, Gaza or any Muslim country.
No one is more oppressed that females in Afghanistan, but you don't hear any whining or kvetching about poor oppressed Afghan females do you.
And you don't see any popular movement about the millions of Sudanese that are being starved and ethnically cleansed by the Sudan government.
A hundred thousand dead Iraqi's are an excuse.
By the way I marched against the 1st gulf war, because I knew it was a specious fraud.
There is no difference between the Kuwaiti's and Saddam, six of one half a dozen of the other, that was an internecine quarrel, and we had no business interfering, in fact were it not for the 1st Gulf war, there would have been no 9/11, no Iraq War and all that followed
One thing has led to another, this time a real domino scenario..