Hey, I found this slideshow while snooping about. It's pretty cool, too bad my comp doesn't have sound though.
http://www.peacetakescourage.com/HistoryRepeating.html
http://www.peacetakescourage.com/HistoryRepeating.html
When Democracy Failed
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Go watch this one about W Jo its really good too .The music is Geendays American Idiot :lol:
http://www.peacetakescourage.com/FactsAboutBush.html :wink:
http://www.peacetakescourage.com/FactsAboutBush.html :wink:
Right on, I haven't seen that one yet. I still had to imagine the music though, I have silence on my end except the cranky calls in my ear.
There is one overarching presumption that guides most of the anti-Bush anti-America view.
America is held to a higher standard and when it doesn't hold to that high standard or even a medium standard, it is hated violently more than the dictators and thugs who still rule a sizeable portion of the globe.
The rationale is blindingly powerful because America has so much power.
And so...
This anger towards America not holding to its promised ideals is so accepted that it permits those who hold this view to downplay the lack of similar emotion towards Milosovec or Saddam or even to the French and German and Canadian corporations that hide behind the anti-American protester as it seeks to do business with a Saddam.
It's okay because American corporations did business with Saddam before and during Iraq's 8 year war with Iran.
Just easier to look at it that way.
America is held to a higher standard and when it doesn't hold to that high standard or even a medium standard, it is hated violently more than the dictators and thugs who still rule a sizeable portion of the globe.
The rationale is blindingly powerful because America has so much power.
And so...
This anger towards America not holding to its promised ideals is so accepted that it permits those who hold this view to downplay the lack of similar emotion towards Milosovec or Saddam or even to the French and German and Canadian corporations that hide behind the anti-American protester as it seeks to do business with a Saddam.
It's okay because American corporations did business with Saddam before and during Iraq's 8 year war with Iran.
Just easier to look at it that way.
The US keeps insisting that it leads the world, Jim. You guys commonly refer to your president as Leader of the Free World. Guess what? Leaders are generally held to a higher standard.
The US, especially under George Bush, has not only failed to meet that higher standard, but has failed to meet even the standards applied to average countries. You ignore international laws, impose illegal trade sanctions, undermine the authority of multi-lateral organizations, attack press freedoms, transgress human rights and just generally act like some biker gangster shaking down the planet for cash and resources.
When criticized your answer, "Well, they do it too." That's not an answer, it's a weak excuse made even weaker by the fact that nobody does it more than the US does.
The US, especially under George Bush, has not only failed to meet that higher standard, but has failed to meet even the standards applied to average countries. You ignore international laws, impose illegal trade sanctions, undermine the authority of multi-lateral organizations, attack press freedoms, transgress human rights and just generally act like some biker gangster shaking down the planet for cash and resources.
When criticized your answer, "Well, they do it too." That's not an answer, it's a weak excuse made even weaker by the fact that nobody does it more than the US does.
Nobody does it more than the US does?
That should absolve of you of all sin and stoke your bias.
That should absolve of you of all sin and stoke your bias.