An un-democratic way to establish democracy elsewhere?
Ah yes. Finally. Jeff touches the sensitive realm of politics. Yes, I’m brave enough to do it.
I want to point out the ironies of US President George W. Bush’s course of action to increase troop deployment in Iraq by over 20,000 heads. The House and the Senate are both preparing to stop this at all costs right now, but in a recent interview Bush said he would push through with it regardless. The full story is here.
So basically the US gov’t, and Bush’s administrations agenda all along has been to remove threats of WMDs, and then before that, was to establish freedom and democracy in Iraq. I’m not even going to start about why I don’t think democracy is the best thing for a country like Iraq considering it’s demographics and religious status. But nonetheless. Back to the whole issue of the US agenda of “upholding freedom and democracy”. Let me tell you why this is so flawed to begin with.
The US people have spoken. Yes, despite our judgments against them about how they are war-mongering, ignorant, partisan, bigot Southerners, this time in the election for the House and the Senate, the US people have spoken. Even they don’t see the justice of 700,000 Iraq civilians and 3,000 young Americans killed for this cause. The House and the Senate represent the will of the people, and it represents the democratic will of its own country. However, Bush intends to ignore this, and use his own powers to try to push the case further. How is that democratic?
Also note that a high-panel group of advisers, chief of staff in the White House, the Pentagon officials, and other study panels and bi-partisan research groups have come up with reports that insist the best course of action for USA to take is to try to pull out of there by 2008, and also use some diplomatic methods of talking to Syria and Iran in order to stabilize Iraq. But of course, the stubborn US agenda that says Iran and Syria are enemies stops them from making that logically and morally correct choice. The Middle East is the Middle East. They’re not fitted for Western style democracy, and under the concept of self-governing that was birthed in WWII, they should be handling it even if they did want democracy, not the USA. Of course, we all know why the US wants control - Gasoline.
Of course Bush and his administration will not admit that. And for them this is the “glorious American venture to spread the word of freedom and democracy”, yet even within the political structure of the US, Bush has to choose the non-democratic ways to try and sell this. What a joke?
Ignoring advices from the Pentagon, his staff, research groups, study panels, and most importantly, the House and the Senate, which the people of USA elected, constitutes a dictatorship and a total lack of democracy as far as I am concerned.
And should I even mention the democracy of the world - by that I mean the UN - opposed the entire war altogether back in 2002?
fuck those middle esaterners may as well just bomb them all to death.
bush all the way, freedom all the way. youre a sand-nigger loving faggot, jeff.
People like you are the reason why the rest of the world is against US foreign policies. It is also part of the reason why terrorism exists against USA.
Love it. Especially “Yes, despite our judgments against them about how they are war-mongering, ignorant, partisan, bigot Southerners”…. Love it
Well done.
there is certainly a lot of truth to power politics and hidden agendas. The US corporate interests indeed have so much to gain from the war in Iraq, and besides Halliburton, the watr pipes anmd many alterior motives, not to mention the vendetta from old deals gone bad with Senior Bush and Sadam. the truth stings though and most people just cant be happy while living with it.. Great article jeff
i think going into iraq was a mistake for the USA… however it can’t simply withdraw now. if it did, it would be a slaughter house… and iran and saudi arabia both have said they would get involved… which again pits Shiites and Sunnis against each other. i think probably the best answer is indeed to talk to the neighbours and try and come up with a plan that has help from the other regional players… but simply pulling out is not an option.
“glorious American venture to spread the word of freedom and democracyâ€
Baha, is that an ACTUAL quote?
Good stuff… the proud texan can go drown himself, by the way.
I agree with jeff in all aspects….Well Wrote! As Usual..HAHA Im stuck for words and will post another comment later. In the mean time Proud Texan i was on a website and Here is a few facts i found from various reports. i think PROUD TEXAN
(Just like Bush ..LOL) that because you probably voted for him that is if you are even old enough and are not some little punk with no friends you must read these…. Maybe you can open your eyes a little to let in some sunlite?
-with the help of his brother the gov of flordia and Obviously his father and his appointments in the supreme courts, he won the presidency after losing by over 500 000 votes
-Bush Joined the national guard and went Awol…Also By joining the national Guard he avoided service in Vietnam
-After receiving a memo from the CIA in August 2001 titled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack America,” President Bush continued his monthlong vacation.
-In June 1990 George Bush violated federal securities law when he failed to inform the SEC that he had sold 200,000 shares of his company, Harken Energy. Two months later the company reported significant losses and by the end of that year the stock had dropped from $3 to $1. (Martha Stewart)??
-Between January 20, 2001, and September 10, 2001, the Bush Administration publicly mentioned Al Qaeda one time yet it has been in over 60 % of terror speaches since
-The Bush Administration awarded a multibillion-dollar no-bid contract to Halliburton–a company that still pays Vice President Cheney hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred compensation each year (Cheney also has Halliburton stock options). The company then repeatedly overcharged the military for services, accepted kickbacks from subcontractors and served troops dirty food.
-The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars and defied numerous court orders to conceal from the public who participated in Vice President Cheney’s 2001 energy task force.
-The Bush Administration told Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan about plans to go to war with Iraq before telling Secretary of State Colin Powell.
-The Bush Administration turned a $236 billion surplus into a $422 billion deficit.
-Since President Bush took office, more than 5 million people have lost their health insurance.
-The Bush Administration, in violation of the law, refused to allow Medicare actuary Richard Foster to tell members of Congress the actual cost of their Medicare bill. Instead, they repeated a figure they knew was $100 billion too low.
–The Bush Administration–reversing years of bipartisan tradition–refuses to answer requests from Democratic members of Congress about how the White House is spending taxpayer money.
-The Bush Administration let disgraced Enron CEO Ken Lay–a close friend of President Bush–help write its energy policy.
-The Bush Administration eliminated protections on more than 200 million acres of public lands.
-When asked at an April 2004 press conference to name a mistake he made during his presidency, Bush couldn’t think of one
HAHA need anyone say more.
If you would like the articles and sources here is the site im sure there is thousands more facts that if you searched you could find.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041108/facts
good points, a lot of these things, I didnt even know about, but all valid nonetheless. After all these disturbing facts, it is hard not to believe that the Iraq war is about money, not democracy or freedom or WMDs.
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