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avevale_intelligencerI’ve seen some complaints (not, as far as I know, related to my effluent) about “knee-jerk anti-Americanism” in connection with the incident last Thursday. So, hoist the lance, get winched on to the horse and let’s go round one more time, Mr Windmill.
I am not anti-American. I’m anti-Bush. (I was also anti-Reagan and anti-other-Bush, so possibly I’m anti-right-wing-radical-Republican, just as I’m anti-right-wing-radical-Tory/”new Labour” in this country. That doesn’t make me anti-British.) and it isn’t “knee-jerk.” It’s a considered view taken as a result of the observed actions of the parties concerned. This one is just worse than the others.
There is, as far as I can see, no justification whatsoever for him being in power. He may have won the last election with a genuine majority, yes, but according to what I understand are verified and widely reported facts (not op-ed) he did not win the previous one. He became president in 2000 by trickery, deception and the power of money, and everyone let him stand up there and swear an oath when he had already proved his honour to be worthless, and I would have thought having done that, even if it did not force a rerun of the election, would at the absolute least disqualify him from running again. Look, look, everybody, the emperor has no clothes on, and not only that, he isn’t even the emperor, he doesn’t look anything like the emperor, why is everybody cheering???
It really shouldn’t matter to me. I shouldn’t care. If they want to pretend he has a right to run their country, if they want to let democracy slide this one time, that’s their business. But then he declares a war, and the equally sad and corrupt government of my country runs yapping at his heels, and we’re involved. And maybe, just maybe, if he had not been in power, if the president of America had chosen a different response to the horror of 9/11 (would it even have happened under a different president? I don’t know) than to invade a random Middle Eastern country, maybe the bombing on Thursday would not have happened and a hundred dead people would be alive today.
Yes, I theorised that perhaps he was directly responsible for it. None of the counter-arguments have convinced me that he's not capable of it. However, I do recognise that this may be a product of my paranoia, fuelled by countless revelations of the kind of dirty tricks that American covert operations agencies *have* perpetrated at the behest of various presidents over the years, and so I withdraw the speculation pending further evidence (which, of course, won’t come to light for another thirty years).
I don’t think America should only elect Democratic presidents. I think America should elect the president it wants. But I’ll be a lot happier when they dump the president they didn’t elect, who got the job because Daddy had it before him, and who used it to plunge the world into war for his own selfish ends.
I am not anti-American. I’m anti-Bush. (I was also anti-Reagan and anti-other-Bush, so possibly I’m anti-right-wing-radical-Republican, just as I’m anti-right-wing-radical-Tory/”new Labour” in this country. That doesn’t make me anti-British.) and it isn’t “knee-jerk.” It’s a considered view taken as a result of the observed actions of the parties concerned. This one is just worse than the others.
There is, as far as I can see, no justification whatsoever for him being in power. He may have won the last election with a genuine majority, yes, but according to what I understand are verified and widely reported facts (not op-ed) he did not win the previous one. He became president in 2000 by trickery, deception and the power of money, and everyone let him stand up there and swear an oath when he had already proved his honour to be worthless, and I would have thought having done that, even if it did not force a rerun of the election, would at the absolute least disqualify him from running again. Look, look, everybody, the emperor has no clothes on, and not only that, he isn’t even the emperor, he doesn’t look anything like the emperor, why is everybody cheering???
It really shouldn’t matter to me. I shouldn’t care. If they want to pretend he has a right to run their country, if they want to let democracy slide this one time, that’s their business. But then he declares a war, and the equally sad and corrupt government of my country runs yapping at his heels, and we’re involved. And maybe, just maybe, if he had not been in power, if the president of America had chosen a different response to the horror of 9/11 (would it even have happened under a different president? I don’t know) than to invade a random Middle Eastern country, maybe the bombing on Thursday would not have happened and a hundred dead people would be alive today.
Yes, I theorised that perhaps he was directly responsible for it. None of the counter-arguments have convinced me that he's not capable of it. However, I do recognise that this may be a product of my paranoia, fuelled by countless revelations of the kind of dirty tricks that American covert operations agencies *have* perpetrated at the behest of various presidents over the years, and so I withdraw the speculation pending further evidence (which, of course, won’t come to light for another thirty years).
I don’t think America should only elect Democratic presidents. I think America should elect the president it wants. But I’ll be a lot happier when they dump the president they didn’t elect, who got the job because Daddy had it before him, and who used it to plunge the world into war for his own selfish ends.
