NP US Elections

[joeallonby]

The vile dictatorship of Iraq suppressed Jihadist radical Muslims. George
Bush liberated them in the name of the war on terror. Now they spread
terror. Now George Bush bombs the shit out of them. But he doesn't use gas
or "weapons of mass destruction".

The difference between George Bush and Saddam Hussein?

Competence.


on 9/22/04 6:01 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

> Still no votes in Leipzig
> 
> US policy now affects every citizen on the planet. So we should all have a
> say in who gets to the White House
> 
> (...)
> "So perhaps it's time to make a modest proposal. If everyone in the world
> will be affected by this election, shouldn't everyone in the world have a
> vote? Despite Bob Dole, shouldn't the men who want to be president win the
> support of Liverpool and Leipzig as well as Louisville and Lexington?
> 
> It may sound wacky, but the idea could not be more American. After all, the
> country was founded on the notion that human beings must have a say in the
> decisions that govern their lives. The rebels' slogan of "No taxation
> without representation" endures two centuries later because it speaks about
> something larger than the narrow business of raising taxes. It says that
> those who pay for a government's actions must have a right to choose the
> government that takes them.
> 
> Today, people far from America's shores do indeed pay for the consequences
> of US actions. The citizens of Iraq are the obvious example, living in a
> land where a vile dictatorship was removed only for a military occupation
> and unspeakable violence to be unleashed in its place. The would-be voters
> of downtown Baghdad might like a say in whether their country would be
> better off with US forces gone. Perhaps John Kerry's Monday promise to start
> bringing the troops home, beginning next summer, would appeal to them. But
> they have no voice."
> (...)
> Jonathan Freedland, Wednesday September 22, 2004, The Guardian
> 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1309890,00.h
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