Ironically, when i read this this morning my first thought was to post this to my LJ. Granted, i've not done it, but that was my thought.
It's yet another instance, for me atleast, of "why am i not surprised?@!" This administration has been a nightmare. Our civil liberties are disolving like sugar in a flood, i fear for the rights of women at large now that we have two new neo-cons on the Supreme Court. And let's not even get me started on the rising body count in the Middle East thanks to Bush's oil-hunger. But i digress.
Particularly I'd like to see people informed of the change in the article. I noticed today that my local paper printed the first article rather then the reformed article.
You know. I wish it was oil hunger, but I've become more convience lately that it's worse then that.
I mean, at least oil hunger has a greater purpose of providing short term economic benifits to the country at large in the form of cheaper gas, plastics and just about everything else that makes up our industrial society.
But I don't think that's it. I begin to increasingly think that it was pure vindictiveness and spite. He had the power and the means to finish what his Daddy started and stick it to "those damn towel-heads", so he did, without really understanding or caring what the end ramifications would be. Like when a guy gets into a fight, he just starts throwing punches without thinking what's going to happen when it's over.
I think we're possibly giving him too much credit, and that he's really just a bully with power.
i agree with so much that you've just said. My oil-hunger comment was my attempt at a quick summation of his motives in Iraq and, as you've pointed out, it barely begins to cover them. i will say that i think that he's dumb enough to actually believe that his work is doing some good in this world. But his ignorance and ego-centric thinking have, i think, really put the world as we know it at risk in the long run. He's shown such a blantant disrespect to too many other countries and world leaders in favor of his "I'm a cowboy in the white hat, here to clean up this place" attitude of world affairs.
i think that you summed it all up nicely with your bully statement.
True enough. I think that "oil" is really a red herring to distract us from a darker motive that has many facets, such as his strong "christian" beliefs and his personal belief that there are no other valid religions and also including his own dislike for Saddam and his contempt of the Arab nations as a whole. But those things may also just be the triggers that allow others to manipulate him into doing things that directly benifit someone elses agenda, such as the huge numbers of dollars that are pouring into Haliburton contracts and other suppliers pockets, or perhaps it may be the war mongers who mistakenly believe a show of force will solve all the problems or it could even be those that lust for the power that a nation at war grants them...
International diplomacy is incredibly complicated, and I'm just not convinced that GW ever had the grasp of the situation that it takes to even begin to understand how to handle it.
It's yet another instance, for me atleast, of "why am i not surprised?@!" This administration has been a nightmare. Our civil liberties are disolving like sugar in a flood, i fear for the rights of women at large now that we have two new neo-cons on the Supreme Court. And let's not even get me started on the rising body count in the Middle East thanks to Bush's oil-hunger. But i digress.
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Particularly I'd like to see people informed of the change in the article. I noticed today that my local paper printed the first article rather then the reformed article.
Not to mention that any publicity will help.
Let it go forth like a virus! Wooo!
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I mean, at least oil hunger has a greater purpose of providing short term economic benifits to the country at large in the form of cheaper gas, plastics and just about everything else that makes up our industrial society.
But I don't think that's it. I begin to increasingly think that it was pure vindictiveness and spite. He had the power and the means to finish what his Daddy started and stick it to "those damn towel-heads", so he did, without really understanding or caring what the end ramifications would be. Like when a guy gets into a fight, he just starts throwing punches without thinking what's going to happen when it's over.
I think we're possibly giving him too much credit, and that he's really just a bully with power.
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i think that you summed it all up nicely with your bully statement.
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International diplomacy is incredibly complicated, and I'm just not convinced that GW ever had the grasp of the situation that it takes to even begin to understand how to handle it.
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Hopefully by the time that i am able to afford European travel i won't have to lie and say that i'm a Canadian. Hopefully.
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