Well, you should be concerned about it everywhere!
Apparently, after running on a 2000 platform of non-interference in world affairs, the US of A. now want to be the soldier, police officer, judge, law maker and moral leader of the universe. And their current thing (with the policing part going so well around the world..) was to prevent abortion rights from becoming universal. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-03-04T185349Z_01_N
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or http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3210,36-400008,0.html
It just drives me nuts that this is where their concern is when millions of born babies and children die each year (month?) due to WAR, hunger, malaria, AIDS, abuse and everything else that could be avoided if the little money spent on missile defence and tax break for the rich believers was better used.
How can you argue reasonnably with a stupid hypocrite?
With all the fuss around the elections in Iraq 12 days ago, how come nobody in the US has yet mentioned the election results? Clearly, Allawi lost and is doing whatever he can to remain in power. However, so far, it looks like the Iraqis chose to get closer to Iran.
(http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-397730,0.html in french)
By the way, in the same article, did you know that 70 Iraqi died yesterday?
Why so much noise and activity around the Gannon/Guckert story?? Are you trying to embarass them and get us a new "Terror Alert"?
I have enjoyed the unusual peace and serenity since the last US elections (Al Qaeda must be so afraaiiiid because W is president... they are so afraid of dying, you know...).
And Condi's lies, existing threats during the summer 2001, etc, have been know for 2 years, it has not stuck to any of them. Why do you think it will make a difference now that he has been reelected for 4 years?
Somebody, please, do something. I just cannot believe how it is possible that a majority of Americans still believes the lies coming from the administration. Here is a short list of the ones I can remember in 3 minutes:
US Asst. Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development (the head of the EDA), Sampson, is in the lobby of my lab, along with half-the Florida legislature, giving our lab a $1.5M grant, gloating that he was with Jeb Bush yesterday, in a place where handicapped people could work and be productive instead of taking government help for free.
Their job is to make camouflage uniform for the soldiers in the desert and american flags to drape the coffins!! No kidding! And he is proud of it!
He also seemed proud of his 4-year record for economic development... And they are all patting each other in the back for their good job.
Finally, his punch line: America can only compete as fast as it can compute. For all it is worth.
I can't stand what they stand for.
Does anybody have advice on where to go in Hawaii? My boyfriend is getting his PhD today, and we are leaving on thursday, with no plan!Which island is better? Maui or Big Island?
I wish he too could give his recollection of those changing times in the 80s! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5185977/ But if he had warm, appreciative words for Reagan, Gorbachev brusquely dismissed the suggestion that Reagan had intimidated either him or the Soviet Union, or forced them to make concessions. Was it accurate to say that Reagan won the Cold War? "That's not serious," Gorbachev said, using the same words several times. "I think we all lost the Cold War, particularly the Soviet Union. We each lost $10 trillion," he said, referring to the money Russians and Americans spent on an arms race that lasted more than four decades. "We only won when the Cold War ended."
Sound pretty realistic to me. But maybe Gorbatchev's got his facts wrong too. What can you do when facts become wrong?! (Ref http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/06/10/powell.terror.report.ap/index.html Statements by senior administration officials claiming success were based "on the facts as we had them at the time. The facts that we had were wrong," department spokesman Richard Boucher said.)
We migh haveto create weird new crazy theories to base our lives on...
On the local news (Orlando) last night, they were talking about threatening calls that candidates for supervisor of elections and such have recently received.
So far, 6 or 7 candidates seem to have been threatened. It looks like there are all democrats, but no definite trend has been determined yet.
Maybe they've found an alternate way to reduce the demoncratic voters' list!
Even CNN seems to grasp the idea that maybe some information was not all that the White House said it was when preparing the country to go to war. And "senior officials" admit it freely! http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/04/06/us.zarqawi/index.html
When will the last straw breaking the camel back fall, already?!
Let's have a contest: first one to find something true coming out from this administration...
I missed the News Hour yesterday, and I wanted to read what Dean said that people have been praising today. So I went to Lehrer's show website (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june04/dean_3-25.html) and here is what I get to read about Dean endorsing Kerry:
At least, that is what he is leading us to believe when he says something like "The Iraq war served its purpose: now the world knows that a threat from the US means something and it is a safer place for it. Look at Lybia which has opened its nuclear, chemical and biological program to US inspectors, thanks to me".
Disclaimer: I am French.
I have been living in the US for 11 years. In Florida. I was stunned in 2000 when a moron who looks like one, managed to move into the WH. Especially when my boss commented at the time: "that shows that US democracy is a success".
I am very concerned with the environment and still love my country because I believe that it is good not to follow blindly. The French are whiners and argumentative, but I think it is healthy to have a debate in order to learn from others' experience.
For the past 3 years, I have been flabbergasted (love that word) by what W has been able to get away with, all under the name of 9/11. I started considering moving back to France despite the despairing unemployement rate. Then the Democratic campaign started.
