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Four More Years
Bush tells Iran to stay out of Iraq vote. Perhaps he will also encourage the United States to stay out of the Iraq vote. Or maybe Iran will get to appoint the next Iraqi leader.
Bush's speech last week sounded quite Orwellian. His buzzwords were "freedom" and "liberty," but let's look at his track record. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as the result of the US invasion. They now have complete freedom from, but no more freedom to. They have been liberated from this world. Iraq is a dangerous place because there's too much liberty -- the people with the weapons have fairly complete liberty and act freely.
He presented America as on a crusade for freedom, fighting for democracy all over the world. This must be why the government tacitly supported coups against democratic presidents of Haiti and Venezuela. This is why they have expended no energy supporting democratic movements from Tibet to Ache to Burma. This is why America is a strong ally of Saudi Arabia.
Shrub's rhetoric of freedom and ownership society sound hollow given his policy of locking up people who own marijuana plants. He talks about widening ownership of businesses while supporting deregulation and corporate buyout. He talks about liberty, but supports indefinite detention without charge.
But the most Orwellian line came at the end. "We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills." Freedom will prevail because humans make choices (like the choice to disrupt elections). Yet at the same time, it's all God's choice. We can't put the responsibility on both God and humans. For God is not elected. God is the ultimate king, and you don't vote for kings. (Swords get thrown at them from pond-bound women.)
Democracy can only succeed when it comes from the grass roots. For if the roots are not strong, the tree cannot stand. But this administration has no rapport with the common people at home or abroad. Despite his campaign image of a down-to-earth Texas guy, we must not forget that Dubya is a New England-born, silver spoon fed, Ivy League educated, cocaine using recovering alcoholic and failed businessman who surrounds himself with rich well educated neoliberal ideologues. The only part of that characterization which gives him rapport with the man on the street is "recovering alcoholic," but he's not that sort.
Bush's tone of bringing freedom to the world sounds rather like the European quest to civilize the savages. In the end good intentions led to bad blood (much of it spilled) and the savage destruction of civilizations. But we all know how well Bush did in history at Yale.
Bush's speech last week sounded quite Orwellian. His buzzwords were "freedom" and "liberty," but let's look at his track record. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died as the result of the US invasion. They now have complete freedom from, but no more freedom to. They have been liberated from this world. Iraq is a dangerous place because there's too much liberty -- the people with the weapons have fairly complete liberty and act freely.
He presented America as on a crusade for freedom, fighting for democracy all over the world. This must be why the government tacitly supported coups against democratic presidents of Haiti and Venezuela. This is why they have expended no energy supporting democratic movements from Tibet to Ache to Burma. This is why America is a strong ally of Saudi Arabia.
Shrub's rhetoric of freedom and ownership society sound hollow given his policy of locking up people who own marijuana plants. He talks about widening ownership of businesses while supporting deregulation and corporate buyout. He talks about liberty, but supports indefinite detention without charge.
But the most Orwellian line came at the end. "We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom. Not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability; it is human choices that move events. Not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation; God moves and chooses as He wills." Freedom will prevail because humans make choices (like the choice to disrupt elections). Yet at the same time, it's all God's choice. We can't put the responsibility on both God and humans. For God is not elected. God is the ultimate king, and you don't vote for kings. (Swords get thrown at them from pond-bound women.)
Democracy can only succeed when it comes from the grass roots. For if the roots are not strong, the tree cannot stand. But this administration has no rapport with the common people at home or abroad. Despite his campaign image of a down-to-earth Texas guy, we must not forget that Dubya is a New England-born, silver spoon fed, Ivy League educated, cocaine using recovering alcoholic and failed businessman who surrounds himself with rich well educated neoliberal ideologues. The only part of that characterization which gives him rapport with the man on the street is "recovering alcoholic," but he's not that sort.
Bush's tone of bringing freedom to the world sounds rather like the European quest to civilize the savages. In the end good intentions led to bad blood (much of it spilled) and the savage destruction of civilizations. But we all know how well Bush did in history at Yale.
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"You don't vote for kings..." Man. That's hilarious.
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I totally wanted him to have said that you don't vote for kings.
*growl*
We have always been at war with Oceania...
Shrub's rhetoric of freedom and ownership society sound hollow given his policy of locking up people who own marijuana plants. He talks about widening ownership of businesses while supporting deregulation and corporate buyout. He talks about liberty, but supports indefinite detention without charge.
No worries, I'm sure the proles will revolt any day now...