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bushit follies .....

bushit follies .....

 

‘Remember when narrow-minded Republican know-nothings launched a hate campaign against French President Jacques Chirac and everything French because Paris would not go along with George Bush’s jolly little war in Iraq?

Well, it turns out that Chirac’s warnings in 2003 that a US invasion of Iraq would set the Mideast on fire, encourage terrorism, and produce a disaster have been tragically born out by events.

Iraq is falling ever deeper into chaos and sectarian conflict. Outgoing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls it “worse than a civil war.” Lebanon is teetering on the brink of civil war. The agonies of Palestine – now the world’s largest outdoor prison – continue without relent. Iran’s power and influence are surging, scaring the daylights out of Washington’s Sunni clients in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Gulf.

For the latter, thank George Bush. He overthrew two of Iran’s bitterest enemies, Taliban and Saddam Hussein, then stuck US ground forces in the $250 million per day Iraq quagmire that is now estimated to cost at least $1 trillion before the United States admits defeat and pulls out.’

The White House Can’t Put Out The Mideast Fires It Ignited

The Howard solution

Look at Fiji ... Look at FIJI! .... LOOK AT FIJI .... over there! .... look!

The situation in Iraq may be "deteriorating and grave", but in Fiji it's appalling, outrageous and, frankly, a sickening sight for champions of freedom and democracy.

Who supplies Fiji with weapons?

 

the nimby sydrome .....

Yes T.G. ......

Did you see our prime warrior preanster's response to the question of possible Australian intervention in Fiji? 

The little parade marshall declared that "the prospect of Australian & Fijian military forces exchanging fire in the streets of Suva was something he wouldn't contemplate".

Seems that our selective champion of freedom & democracy has no qualms being party to the wholesale butchery of hundreds of thousands Arab civilians on the other side of the world but, closer to home, he falls victim to the NIMBY syndrome. 

what kind of people .....

‘I’d written to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. I’d told him that I’d seen all these lies before, in Vietnam, Iran-Contra, in Britain’s conquest of Suez and Cyprus, in America’s campaign of lies about Libya. We warned him that Iraq, surrounded as she was by America’s enemies, would become another Lebanon, another Cyprus, another Vietnam. Straw and my local member of Parliament told me I was a fool. Leave it to those who understand these things. And we, the little people, were watching it all again. On the US networks, and notably on Fox. Saddam’s Winnebagoes of Death. A CIA lie, confidently repeated on every Fox presenter screen. What of Al Jazeera? We’ll bomb ’em, bumbled a retired Lieutenant Colonel. Yea. Amazing, urged Fox’s Brian Kilmead. But Fox was only part of it. America had over the twentieth century visited many Nine Elevens on other inferior nations, from McKinley’s brutal conquest of the Philippines, to Nixon and Kissinger’s Two hundred thousand [drowned in a single series of raids over Haiphong] is not enough.’

Cry Havoc