Bush Time
Magazine's "Person of the year" - December 20th, 2004
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He
shouldn't be on the cover of TIME, he should be doing TIME.
"God told me to strike at Al Qaeda and
I struck them. And then he
instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did. With the might of God
on our side we will triumph," -George Bush. ( http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd06302003.html
)
Really? I seem to recall another person of the year saying something
similar - maybe they were collaborators :
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty
Creator," - Adolf Hitler.
 
Time magazines' person of the year is someone that has 'grabbed
international attention' or had an 'impact' the world scene...- for the
better
or for the worse.
...and now we have George W. Bush as person of the year for the second
time. How has his legacy changed since 2000? Well, this '2004
person of the year' has stranded the '2003 person of the year'......
the American Soldier, in Iraq.
- He has gotten more 1300 American servicemen and
women killed, and seriously injured thousands more... on a war in which
our 'moral' reason for starting has flown out the window.
- Is responsible for killing tens of
thousands ( http://www.iraqbodycount.org
) of innocent Iraqi civilians, many of them women and
children.
14,000-17,000 at last count. Even went so far to allow some in his
administration to USE
TORTURE on those in prisons.
- The war in Iraq will cost American Tax
payers more than $200
Billion, money desperately needed here at home. ( Instead,
we
could have insured 90,409,834 children for one year. - Instead, we
could have hired 2,616,579 additional public school teachers for
one year - Instead, we could have fully funded global anti-hunger
efforts for 6 years.- http://www.costofwar.com/ )
We are also at record deficit levels, and practically every
country and their mothers are dumping the dollar.
- He has destroyed America’s credibility and
stature
around the world ( So much for being a uniter instead of a divider - He
can't go anywhere without massive protests (often numbering in the 10's
of thousands) and millions of dollars in security surrounding
him. Even worldwide polls show he's is among the most hated in
the world.
In Indonesia thousands marched with the banner: "Bush The World's
Greatest Terrorist." European capitals declared him a "Baby Killer,"
... He's hated the world over.
- Sent in US soldiers with equipment known to be
under-par or not up to standard. It's not like HIS kids are going to be
facing death every day.
Moral War
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=582915
This fighting style will never work... we take a huge chunk of our
troops, amass them around the area to attack, then level it...
meanwhile, while we're doing all this, the "insurgents" (or what I like
to call - pissed off Iraqis that dont want their nation ruled by
another country) slip out the back door.
At the same time we shoot civilians in the confusion ( http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/911982.htm
), level homes, and defile their sacred sites. Cause ya gotta remember,
it's all about "winning hearts and minds." I've read we killed anywhere
from 400-600 civilian in the last "major" operation alone... where's
the outrage?
Sun Tzu wrote that nations that initiate war must be convinced that
they have the moral law on their side. Clearly, US Soldiers know they
fight a war of conquest and aggression and that the moral law is on the
side of the opposition. They feel trapped between what they think was
their duty to the US and what really occured in the war zones.
The city of a thousand mosques is destroyed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Stor...1351589,00.html
- If this doesnt win over the people of Iraq I don't know what will.
Nearly 50 Americans killed, 400 wounded, and more than 1000 Iraqis
(civillians and 'insurgents') killed, It's just so comfortable to
remember that "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
We have in custody 1 old man (who isn't charged with anything after
1993, and seemingly wasn't in breach of the UN resolutions) at
the cost of nearly $200 billion, and
have removed a few from his 'regime' - but with the fighting going so
stupidly from one city to another, I can't really see an end. Sure
Saddam was a scum bag, and yeah - the world is a better place for it in
the long run. That's all fine and dandy, not GET OUR SOLDIERS HOME!. Still,
the actual perpatrators, the ones that ACTUALLY ATTACKED THIS COUNTRY
(supposedly) are in a DIFFERENT COUNTRY.
Lies Lies Lies!
"We're here to punish those behind 9/11, take your WMD's, and
remove Al Qaeda"... Well guess what W, you're in the wrong country and
you went 0 for 3.
Compare and
Contrast
What would America look like if it were in
Iraq's current situation?
The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of
statistics would have to be multiplied by that number.
Thus, violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent
proportionately of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in
car bombings, grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial
bombardment in the last week? That is a number greater than the deaths
on September 11th, and if America were Iraq, it would be an ongoing,
weekly or monthly toll.
And what if those deaths occurred all over the country, including in
the capital of Washington, DC, but mainly above the Mason Dixon line,
in Boston, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco? -
http://www.juancole.com/
Didn't matter. Bush wanted his little war in Iraq, and he got it.
Now he's
on the cover of that magazine, and person of the year - that's fine he
deserves it... as a war criminal, a
liar, and a murderer. Only the
people in the red states can believe this man is doing the 'moral'
thing,
and deserves the honor of "person of the year" to be seen in a positive
light.
The Rest of us have our eyes wide open.
List of TIME
Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2004
Leaders and
revolutionaries
George W. Bush — president of the USA
Abu al-Zarqawi — Islamic terrorist.
Condoleezza Rice — U.S. national security adviser.
Wu Yi — Chinese vice premier and health minister.
Vladimir Putin — president of Russia.
Kim Jong-il — leader of North Korea.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan — prime minister of Turkey.
Atal Behari Vajpayee — prime minister of India.
Kofi Annan — secretary-general of the United Nations.
Bill Gates — co-founder of Microsoft.
Luisa Diogo — prime minister of Mozambique.
John Kerry — Democratic Presidential Candidate
Toshihiko Fukui — governor of the bank of Japan.
John Abizaid — general of the USA army and Commander-in-Chief of
CENTCOM.
Ali Husaini Sistani — Iraqi Muslim leader.
Osama bin Laden — Saudi terrorist.
Bill Clinton & Hillary Clinton — former president of the USA &
senator.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva — president of Brazil.
Hu Jintao — president of the People's Republic of China.
John Paul II — Pope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TIME_Magazine's_100_most_influential_people_of_2004
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