Fraud
Every fraud uses the same ploy to stay in power--he wraps himself in the flag and screams that a terrorist enemy is ready to destroy us. Fear works. It's the oldest trick in the book: "It's not my fault, it's those evil doers."
Bush has used Iran and Iraq as scapegoats and ironically they are two of the most westernized, secular, non-fanatical populations in the Middle East
When compared to our major 'allies', Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, both of which are deeply repressive of women and religious freedom, both are primary sources of terrorist training. Pakistan gives major support to the Taliban, while Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists were almost all Saudis. Add the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and one has to wonder what is going on with our present administration.
Iran is a democracy. It is also a nation changing. They are deeply resentful of the Ayatollahs as well as anti-American. But two-thirds of the Iranian population is under thirty. They never lived under the brutal dictatorship of the American-imposed Shah, the Iranian hostage ordeal, nor can they remember the CIA coup that overthrew their democratically elected national hero, Mossadegh. Now that we have handed over Iraq to the fanatics by all our blunders, Iran is the least misogynistic Muslim country in the Mid-East. Sixty percent of Iranians attending college are women. Women run major businesses, are professionals, firefighters, even taxi-drivers, whereas in Saudi Arabia--our 'ally--they can't even drive.
What most Americans know about Iran is that they have a fanatic, Holocaust-denying President, Ahmadinejad. But he no more represents Iran than George Bush represents the American populous and both men are doing terrible in the polls by the way.
Unlike Americans, however, Iranians are not abysmally ignorant of what goes on outside their borders, and are capable of distinguishing between another nation's people and its corrupt and incompetent leader.
The rationale for Bush's planned attack on Iran is that Iranian-made weapons have been used by Iraqi terrorists. So have American-made Chinese and Russian-made weapons. It's a pathetic excuse by a man who has in six years done everything possible to weaken America--undermining our financial stability, destroying our environment, sabotaging our children's education, eroding our influence internationally. He has mortgaged our nation's future in a vain attempt to make little Georgie Bush--who never in his life had to face enemy fire--a military hero. The reality is that a pact with Iran is the only way to salvage the Iraq mess. But reality has never been a big player in the Bush administration.
“When fascism comes to America it will come wearing a flag and waving a cross” Do you recognize it?
Bush has used Iran and Iraq as scapegoats and ironically they are two of the most westernized, secular, non-fanatical populations in the Middle East
When compared to our major 'allies', Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, both of which are deeply repressive of women and religious freedom, both are primary sources of terrorist training. Pakistan gives major support to the Taliban, while Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 terrorists were almost all Saudis. Add the fact that Pakistan has nuclear weapons, and one has to wonder what is going on with our present administration.
Iran is a democracy. It is also a nation changing. They are deeply resentful of the Ayatollahs as well as anti-American. But two-thirds of the Iranian population is under thirty. They never lived under the brutal dictatorship of the American-imposed Shah, the Iranian hostage ordeal, nor can they remember the CIA coup that overthrew their democratically elected national hero, Mossadegh. Now that we have handed over Iraq to the fanatics by all our blunders, Iran is the least misogynistic Muslim country in the Mid-East. Sixty percent of Iranians attending college are women. Women run major businesses, are professionals, firefighters, even taxi-drivers, whereas in Saudi Arabia--our 'ally--they can't even drive.
What most Americans know about Iran is that they have a fanatic, Holocaust-denying President, Ahmadinejad. But he no more represents Iran than George Bush represents the American populous and both men are doing terrible in the polls by the way.
Unlike Americans, however, Iranians are not abysmally ignorant of what goes on outside their borders, and are capable of distinguishing between another nation's people and its corrupt and incompetent leader.
The rationale for Bush's planned attack on Iran is that Iranian-made weapons have been used by Iraqi terrorists. So have American-made Chinese and Russian-made weapons. It's a pathetic excuse by a man who has in six years done everything possible to weaken America--undermining our financial stability, destroying our environment, sabotaging our children's education, eroding our influence internationally. He has mortgaged our nation's future in a vain attempt to make little Georgie Bush--who never in his life had to face enemy fire--a military hero. The reality is that a pact with Iran is the only way to salvage the Iraq mess. But reality has never been a big player in the Bush administration.
“When fascism comes to America it will come wearing a flag and waving a cross” Do you recognize it?
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