Anyone who wasn't a Bush-can-do-no-wrong Republican had to have seen how much ass Kerry kicked and how much more polished and intelligent he was than Bush last night. I hope a lot of fence-sitters took notice and realize what a horrendous mistake it would be to keep this screw-up in office.
I had a lot of the same reactions you did to Dubya's statements. The man is just clueless. God help the United States of America if he gets re-elected.
Hmm, yes. Unfortunately, most of the Republicans in my hall are that way because their parents are and because Bush is a Christian and/or is anti-abortion. There's not much critical thought going on here. And a lot of them didn't even watch the debate. ::headdesk::
But still, for those undecided voters who did watch ... the polls are promising. :D
I can't find the exact Arundhati Roy quote I want, but in a speech in NYC she reported that planners gave the U.S. military a list of things to be guarded Iraq during/after the invasion. It included ministries of water and such... and the Iraqi National Museum (remember it was looted?). Some Bush person said that it was just the price of freedom, formerly oppressed people blowing off steam. Roy inquired if that would be our response if New Yorkers looted the Met.
Arundhati Roy wrote the novel The God of Small Things, and is a passionate anti-war and anti-globalization essayist. One of her essays written during the beginning of the war is here.
Before the war on Iraq began, the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) sent the Pentagon a list of 16 crucial sites to protect. The National Museum was second on that list. Yet the Museum was not just looted, it was desecrated. It was a repository of an ancient cultural heritage. Iraq as we know it today was part of the river valley of Mesopotamia. The civilisation that grew along the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates produced the world’s first writing, first calendar, first library, first city, and, yes, the world’s first democracy. King Hammurabi of Babylon was the first to codify laws governing the social life of citizens. It was a code in which abandoned women, prostitutes, slaves, and even animals had rights. The Hammurabi code is acknowledged not just as the birth of legality, but the beginning of an understanding of the concept of social justice. The US government could not
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You're welcome. I took three books of Roy essays out of the library last week, and I want to make a big meta-post about it... about her writing, and what's right and wrong with America, and such... but it requires higher levels of organizational and expressive thought than I can manage at the moment. *g*
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I had a lot of the same reactions you did to Dubya's statements. The man is just clueless. God help the United States of America if he gets re-elected.
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But still, for those undecided voters who did watch ... the polls are promising. :D
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Arundhati Roy wrote the novel The God of Small Things, and is a passionate anti-war and anti-globalization essayist. One of her essays written during the beginning of the war is here.
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And I found the speech I was looking for!
A relevant portion:
Before the war on Iraq began, the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA) sent the Pentagon a list of 16 crucial sites to protect. The National Museum was second on that list. Yet the Museum was not just looted, it was desecrated. It was a repository of an ancient cultural heritage. Iraq as we know it today was part of the river valley of Mesopotamia. The civilisation that grew along the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates produced the world’s first writing, first calendar, first library, first city, and, yes, the world’s first democracy. King Hammurabi of Babylon was the first to codify laws governing the social life of citizens. It was a code in which abandoned women, prostitutes, slaves, and even animals had rights. The Hammurabi code is acknowledged not just as the birth of legality, but the beginning of an understanding of the concept of social justice. The US government could not ( ... )
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