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  •  But do they pay any more attention to it than our (2+ / 0-)

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    people do?  

    Actually, I was being sort of snarky in a silly sort of way.  

    I know the world is watching and some are even on this site.  

    And I'm sort of embarrased and trying to be apologetic, or at least acknowledge awareness of some of the sad and poignant aspects and implications I imagine some might be thinking and feeling as they watch this, MajorFlaw.

    The means is the ends in the process of becoming. - Mahatma Gandhi

    by HoundDog on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 03:20:28 AM PDT

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    •  Know what you mean... (3+ / 0-)

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      some of the sad and poignant aspects and implications

      How do we explain to people who haven't lived through it the fall from grace we suffered from 9/12/01 when the world was on our side to now.  It's truly unfathomable. One of the running jokes I've heard is that GHWB was born on third base and thought he tripled;  the shrub was born on third base and managed to steal second.

      •  But what makes the 9/11 fiasco worse is the the (0+ / 0-)

        American people voted him back into office in 2004.  

        The first time we could say he lied to us, and we didn't know.

        We have no excuse for the second election.  I fought againts Bush both times and was against the war from tthe first I heard about it.  It was first "designed" by the PNAC neocons eigth years prior as a plan to "redesign the middle east.

        But, we are now responsible for this horrible legacy and have a lot of repair work to do if we can win this next election.

        But recommitted ourselves to the rule of international law, working wihtin the framework of the United Nations, The Geneva Conventions, renouncing the unilateral pre-emptive war philosophy that place GWB and OSL in the same camp, and at least some token nod in the direction of Just War theory, which suggest that war should only be used as last result after all other options have been exhausted, not the first idea, or as a display of power to discipline other countries (a central premise of the PNAC neocon approach.)

        But I burnt out year agos after ranting and raving about these issues for years here and other places.

        I'm makes me mad as heck that I'm going to have to stand in the same box with the rest of us American who are now morally responsible for these outrages, after reelecting these Bush Neocriminals.

        The means is the ends in the process of becoming. - Mahatma Gandhi

        by HoundDog on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 11:14:52 AM PDT

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