Hating People Who Love To Hate Freedom

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Hating People Who Love To Hate Freedom

Postby Rspaight » Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:47 pm

It's clearer than ever that Bush is a puppet. Gotta be. I mean, listen to this nonsense:

"We've got tough work there because, you see, there are terrorists there who would rather kill innocent people than allow for the advance of freedom," Bush said in a speech in El Dorado, Ark. "That's what you're seeing going on. These people hate freedom. And we love freedom. And that's where the clash occurs."


That's foreign policy as articulated by a pre-schooler. People are dying for this simple-minded-to-the-point-of-incoherence worldview?

Obligatory smart-ass comment: If they hate freedom, why are they fighting their occupiers? Oh, I get it. They hate freedom, so they're attacking the US in the hopes that if they generate enough chaos, the US will never be able to hand over control and they'll never be free. Brilliant.

OS-AC II: Obviously, our Iraq policy is based on the New Hampshire license plate. Talk about pandering to a battleground state.

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Postby Ron » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:10 pm

And this from Rice's testimony yesterday:
Long before that day [9/11], radical, freedom-hating terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized world.

It's a mantra among members of the administration. I've heard Rumsfeld say it and shouldn't be surprised if both Cheney and Powell have as well. Framing the terrorism issue the way they have was, of course, by design. And it was also very clever. Terrorism becomes quite easy to understand in this context, particularly for Americans who love freedom more than anyone else. No messy discussions of who terrorists actually are and what they want: They hate freedom, and that's good enough for me.
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Re: Hating People Who Love To Hate Freedom

Postby Patrick M » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:53 pm

Rspaight wrote:It's clearer than ever that Bush is a puppet.

Why? He's been saying that same thing forever. Given his disdain for cogitation, I would say the black/white view of the world *is* his, and the rest of the administration plays along (like with the "evildoers" line that Cheney so hated to say).

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Postby Rspaight » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:12 pm

Yeah, I know he's been riding that horse forever now -- it's just more ludicrous than ever. It was somewhat more forgivable when he was talking about al Qaeda and you know, actual terrorists. Applying it to the Iraqi insurgency seems foolish on a whole new level. He doesn't understand the difference between a diffuse terror network and a resistance movement so broad-based it unites the Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites. He doesn't understand that we are now Israel. (Or, to use a more apt analogy, Iraq is the new Yugoslavia.)

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Postby Rspaight » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:23 pm

At least he's not letting all this depressing death and destruction stuff intrude on his fun and games at the ranch:

On Saturday, Bush and his father were to go fishing at the ranch's bass pond with a crew from the Outdoor Life Network's "Fishing with Roland Martin."

The White House approached the network about coming to film Bush, who is eager to cultivate an image as a sportsman with the millions of voters who hunt and fish. The crew was to bring its own boat for the shoot on the small pond.


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