[Discuss] [Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

[Marti Wilkinson]

hehe...nice satire

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> How about this instead ...
> Bush ought to be US embarrassment Wednesday October 29, 2008  A United
> States president's history of criminality cannot be minimized.
>
> The Associated Press reports that no one has signed an online petition
> objecting to the "demonization" of US President George W Bush.
>
> Bush is an admitted and unrepentant terrorist who, by his own admission,
> ordered and helped plan the death or torture of hundreds of thousands of
> civilians and US and allied military personnel, not to mention civilian
> contractors, as part of a group of militant rightists known as the
> Neo-Conservatives.
>
> Bush came to national attention during the 2000 presidential campaign
> because of his daddy.
>
> Until Bush's after-the-fact denunciations of Abu Ghraib, for example, for
> US soldiers' "disgusting" criminal conduct - on his and Donald Rumsfeld's
> orders, the pair were longtime associates. A notorious torture site for
> Saddam Hussein before his overthrow, Abu Ghraib was reopened after the Bush
> Administration's illegal invasion of Iraq and the subsequent uprising of
> Iraqi rebel groups against the US occupation.
>
> Republican presidential candidate John McCain has challenged the wisdom of
> Bush's association with torture, but in the end he voted for it. Memories
> fade with time, so more people seem to accept Bush' current persona as a
> president than his former role as a spoiled alcoholic coke-head who still
> engages in serial criminal activities, urges the illegal overthrow of the
> sovereign governments, is a pathological liar, condones torture, encourages
> the rich ("my base") to screw the poor, especially parents and children, and
> more.
>
> Bush's supporters are complaining bitterly about the "blame America first"
> demonizations. But any fair reading of Bush's long history of criminality
> demonstrates that he has demonized himself.
>
> In defense of his bombing and torturing spree, which he describes vaguely
> as "fighting terrorism," Bush downplays his blatant violations of US and
> international law on the grounds of self-defense, and by saying that the
> Geneva convention against torturing prisoners is "vague" and "open to
> interpretation."  He's much too big a liar. There have been hundreds of
> thousands of casualties left by Bush and his Neo-Conservative associates,
> and he can't escape responsibility.
> We are not talking about bomb-making in basements, vandalism or robbing a
> Brink's truck here.  This is mass murder and war crime on a global scale.
>
> So don't get too carried away about what a swell fellow Bush is. The son of
> a wealthy oil executive/ex-CIA man/ex-president, he's a moral reprobate who
> brags that not only does he not regret his criminal behavior but that he
> wishes he and his fellow revolutionaries had been more destructive.
>
> His presence in the United States, running around free and un-convicted,
> should be a source of shame, not grounds to leap to the defense of an
> indefensible man or policy.
>
>
> Ricky Baldwin
>
> "Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin
>
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