[Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Good work!

Ricky Baldwin wrote:
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> How about this instead ...
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>     Bush ought to be US embarrassment
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>             Wednesday October 29, 2008
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>            A United States president's history of criminality cannot
>           be minimized.
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> 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.
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> Bush came to national attention during the 2000 presidential campaign 
> because of his daddy.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ricky Baldwin
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> "Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin
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