On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:05:04 +0000, "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in
lieu of the frontal attack' )" <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
<48285CA0.B639A02E@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>What exactly are these people so mad at Bush about?
As I said, by "these" people you mean *most* people. And the obvious
answer
is "what's *not* to be mad about?" The enormous harm he has done in terms
of
discrediting democracy, damaging human and civil rights, advocating
torture,
further destabilising the Middle East, destroying America's reputation and
credibility; and his abject failure to address crises in the environment,
job ex****ts, deregulated finance, competition from the Tiger Economies,
New
Orleans, etc., are obvious; Bush has managed to discredit every creed he
has
embraced - including Christianity.
And what good has done? Most people can't see *any*.
>It amazes me
>that "Iraq" could be such a big deal. How is Iraq different than
>Panama, Granada, the Balkans?
The Balkans, like Gulf 1, had widespread international sup****t and did not
reek of military or economic imperialism. The prime motive was to ensure
the
continuation of stability in Western Europe and in this NATO was fairly
successful.
Iraq is in some ways very similar to Panama, except in scale; in both
cases
the US turned against its own man as soon as the level of embarrassment he
was causing outweighed his usefulness.
Granada is said to be the only occasion on which Reagan's people were
unable
to persuade him out of a piece of real dumbass stupidity, but was on such
a
tiny scale that no-one other than Clint Eastwood bothered very much.
The list of reasons why Iraq stands out from the rest is long and has been
gone over endlessly; if you haven't cottoned on by now it's unlikely that
you ever will. Suffice it to say that it was a war of choice, not
necessity;
that it poured fuel onto the flames of the Middle East instead of dousing
them; that it played totally into the hands of religious fundamentalists
everywhere; and (this is the only part that wasn't widely predicted) that
its execution was ****ed up so badly that the resulting disaster is on a
par
with that now being precipitated by the Burmese generals, not to mention
the
massive damage it has done to the global - and especially the US -
economy.
--
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