Bush (and Britain) bashing
Here’s something I wrote down the other day, after seeing an article on the news… I was perhaps slightly harsh, but still!
‘Oh, what tangled webs we weave’
There have been riots in Iraq, and many British and American soldiers and cicvilians have been abducted. Some have been murdered. And all this for Bush’s war.
A war which a large percentage of the UK and US populations did not want. A war which was not cohesively planned. A war which leaves as its legacy a failing democracy.
Did the Iraqi people want Saddam deposed? Did they want a democracy? Did they want bombs, and riots, and death? Every time a British or American person is hurt, abducted or killed, it’s splashed all over the media. We hear all about how unjust it is, and the pain their families are going through. But every time an Iraqi dies, killed by a bomb ‘we’ dropped, they are just nameless, faceless. One of ‘them’. A casualty of democracy. THIS MUST STOP.
We also created this terrible situation in Northern Ireland. Send all the Irish Catholics to the South, put British Protestants in the North, keep them fighting each other so that we can be free to colonise other countries. What gives us this right? Britain does not deserve her status in the world, when she only got there by abusing others. We don not deserve to have others speaking our language, so we don not have to sully our tongues with theirs. It’s so unbelievably arrogant that we go abroad and expect others to speak our language, especially if we don’t make the effort to learn anyone else’s.
We sit happily in out homes filled with expensive technology and trinkets, while in other countries people do not even have water to drink. We do not deserve to have been born into such privilege after it was our ancestors who caused the problem in the first place. How can we have so much status in the world when so much of the conflict is of our making?
Okay, I don’t know all that much about American politics, but I do agree that Bush should go. I don’t know enough about Kerry to know ehether he’d be any better – from what I hear, he’d have fairly similar policies, and I know it’s become ‘fashionable’ to hate Bush, but just read what [Bad username: johnnyboy09 ] has to say. I completely agree.
If you agree that homosexuals have just as many rights as heterosexuals, but are still even considering voting for George Bush, or even supporting George Bush, I'm sorry, but I'm disgusted.
And for those of you who argue that "Kerry will ruin your economy" well, guess what? Bush has already done that. There's nowhere for you to go but up.
Canadians and the rest of the world, have a better perspective on American politics than most Americans, I'm sorry to say. There is so much propaganda in the United States, it's incredible. American flags on cereal boxes. "Hero" soldiers in the news. FOX NEWS. Americans are being told how to think, what to believe in, who to trust, even when blatant lies are thrown in their faces. How to think. That's the worst. Free thought. You are supposeldly the "Free World".
Most soldiers over in Iraq don't know WHY they're fighting, they just ARE. If you ask me, that's brainwashing. Most Americans think Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11th attacks. Bush has been unclear on the subject since 2001, and what's worse is that he's purposely unclear.
He's created a nation that FEARS others, and fueled racism and homophobism everywhere. He's LIED about eveything that ever had to DO with Iraq. He invaded a third world country that had NO weapons except for a few guns and a determined guerrilla and murdered, yes, MURDERED, thousands of innocent men, women and children, all for the sake of cheap oil, while pretending to do it for "Freedom". Freedom, my ass. He's just destroyed Iraq even more than his father did, and left it like that to sort itself out. "Oh, aren't we special, we've given them a President. They should THANK US."
Free speech isn't free anymore in the United States. It's the ignorance of most Americans that saddens me the most. It's not even funny, oh, haha, look, another stupid American, it's SAD. Tragic.
I respect that everyone has an opinion, and I guess half the United States disagrees with me and agrees with Bush, but I can't even imagine giving a halfwit homophobic power-hungry war-obsessed racist like George Bush even a little bit of hope of winning the next election.
Go see what [Bad username: wayfairer ] has to say about Gay Rights, it should be important to everyone who considers themselves open-minded.
Whoever Americans elect in the November elections doesn't just affect the United States. It affects the world. Most Canadians are scared that George Bush will be re-elect. If we're scared, think how scared the Iraqi children must be.
Check it out here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/430795.html.
Thanks.
Oh, and in response to the homophobic thing, I just don’t understand it – people like Britney can take the institution of marriage lightly, getting married then instantly changing your mind, but because you’re heterosexual it’s all okay. Elizabeth Taylor got married seven times! But if two people love each other, and genuinely want to spend their lives together, that isn’t allowed, just because they are homosexual? Could someone please explain to me how that works?!
‘Oh, what tangled webs we weave’
There have been riots in Iraq, and many British and American soldiers and cicvilians have been abducted. Some have been murdered. And all this for Bush’s war.
A war which a large percentage of the UK and US populations did not want. A war which was not cohesively planned. A war which leaves as its legacy a failing democracy.
Did the Iraqi people want Saddam deposed? Did they want a democracy? Did they want bombs, and riots, and death? Every time a British or American person is hurt, abducted or killed, it’s splashed all over the media. We hear all about how unjust it is, and the pain their families are going through. But every time an Iraqi dies, killed by a bomb ‘we’ dropped, they are just nameless, faceless. One of ‘them’. A casualty of democracy. THIS MUST STOP.
We also created this terrible situation in Northern Ireland. Send all the Irish Catholics to the South, put British Protestants in the North, keep them fighting each other so that we can be free to colonise other countries. What gives us this right? Britain does not deserve her status in the world, when she only got there by abusing others. We don not deserve to have others speaking our language, so we don not have to sully our tongues with theirs. It’s so unbelievably arrogant that we go abroad and expect others to speak our language, especially if we don’t make the effort to learn anyone else’s.
We sit happily in out homes filled with expensive technology and trinkets, while in other countries people do not even have water to drink. We do not deserve to have been born into such privilege after it was our ancestors who caused the problem in the first place. How can we have so much status in the world when so much of the conflict is of our making?
Okay, I don’t know all that much about American politics, but I do agree that Bush should go. I don’t know enough about Kerry to know ehether he’d be any better – from what I hear, he’d have fairly similar policies, and I know it’s become ‘fashionable’ to hate Bush, but just read what [Bad username: johnnyboy09 ] has to say. I completely agree.
If you agree that homosexuals have just as many rights as heterosexuals, but are still even considering voting for George Bush, or even supporting George Bush, I'm sorry, but I'm disgusted.
And for those of you who argue that "Kerry will ruin your economy" well, guess what? Bush has already done that. There's nowhere for you to go but up.
Canadians and the rest of the world, have a better perspective on American politics than most Americans, I'm sorry to say. There is so much propaganda in the United States, it's incredible. American flags on cereal boxes. "Hero" soldiers in the news. FOX NEWS. Americans are being told how to think, what to believe in, who to trust, even when blatant lies are thrown in their faces. How to think. That's the worst. Free thought. You are supposeldly the "Free World".
Most soldiers over in Iraq don't know WHY they're fighting, they just ARE. If you ask me, that's brainwashing. Most Americans think Saddam Hussein was involved in the September 11th attacks. Bush has been unclear on the subject since 2001, and what's worse is that he's purposely unclear.
He's created a nation that FEARS others, and fueled racism and homophobism everywhere. He's LIED about eveything that ever had to DO with Iraq. He invaded a third world country that had NO weapons except for a few guns and a determined guerrilla and murdered, yes, MURDERED, thousands of innocent men, women and children, all for the sake of cheap oil, while pretending to do it for "Freedom". Freedom, my ass. He's just destroyed Iraq even more than his father did, and left it like that to sort itself out. "Oh, aren't we special, we've given them a President. They should THANK US."
Free speech isn't free anymore in the United States. It's the ignorance of most Americans that saddens me the most. It's not even funny, oh, haha, look, another stupid American, it's SAD. Tragic.
I respect that everyone has an opinion, and I guess half the United States disagrees with me and agrees with Bush, but I can't even imagine giving a halfwit homophobic power-hungry war-obsessed racist like George Bush even a little bit of hope of winning the next election.
Go see what [Bad username: wayfairer ] has to say about Gay Rights, it should be important to everyone who considers themselves open-minded.
Whoever Americans elect in the November elections doesn't just affect the United States. It affects the world. Most Canadians are scared that George Bush will be re-elect. If we're scared, think how scared the Iraqi children must be.
Check it out here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/430795.html.
Thanks.
Oh, and in response to the homophobic thing, I just don’t understand it – people like Britney can take the institution of marriage lightly, getting married then instantly changing your mind, but because you’re heterosexual it’s all okay. Elizabeth Taylor got married seven times! But if two people love each other, and genuinely want to spend their lives together, that isn’t allowed, just because they are homosexual? Could someone please explain to me how that works?!