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Maybe I need to go into journalism...
Jul. 14th, 2004 10:11 amI just saw a website mentioning that Al Quaeda might not have influenced the Spanish elections.
I mean, think about it... an attack by Al Quaeda, right before the election, and it *MIGHT NOT HAVE INFLUENCED THE ELECTION*. Even though it caused the government (Pro-Iraq war) to be turned out!
*HELLO!!!!!!!!*
Spain's government was shouting that it was some Basque terrorist group, *not* Al Quaeda. They were blaming the terrorism on their political enemies, *even after* there started to be evidence that it was Al Quaeda. They were disgusting, lying, political opportunists, trying to score points on the dead bodies of their citizens.
I mean, what the *hell*, are people really this forgetful?
Okay, stupid question.
People ask why France and Germany aren't helping us out more in Iraq, after Bush proudly said we will do it with them (if they agreed with us, 100%, as to timing and method), *OR WITHOUT THEM*. Bush said he didn't need their help back then; he hasn't apologized for saying that, nor for his other bits of angry posturing. Bush shut them out of reconstruction... excuse me, he shut them out of "lucrative reconstruction contracts", a phrase I think the Bushies invented to make it sound like the non-war-supporters would only be upset due to selfishness.
But, gee... we're now going back and asking them for money and troops, after cutting them out of a chance to help our their own companies.
Plus, think carefully about this one, folks.
If there were a few French and German companies trying to make a few billion in Iraq reconstruction, wouldn't France and Germany have a damn good reason to be *really* concerned with security?
A President of the US needs to be able to swallow his pride and his anger at being criticized, and do what's best for the country. Just a few measly reconstruction contracts (and maybe less of a bone thrown to Haliburton), and some soft words to help people forget the harsh ones, and he might have turned things around.
So I guess people really can be forgetful. They *can* forget how shabbily we treated our allies, they *can* forget the egregious behavior of the ex-government of Spain, and they can forget all kinds of nasty things.
Journalists should be our memories, to some extent... but they seem to be forgetting, too damn often, as well.
I mean, think about it... an attack by Al Quaeda, right before the election, and it *MIGHT NOT HAVE INFLUENCED THE ELECTION*. Even though it caused the government (Pro-Iraq war) to be turned out!
*HELLO!!!!!!!!*
Spain's government was shouting that it was some Basque terrorist group, *not* Al Quaeda. They were blaming the terrorism on their political enemies, *even after* there started to be evidence that it was Al Quaeda. They were disgusting, lying, political opportunists, trying to score points on the dead bodies of their citizens.
I mean, what the *hell*, are people really this forgetful?
Okay, stupid question.
People ask why France and Germany aren't helping us out more in Iraq, after Bush proudly said we will do it with them (if they agreed with us, 100%, as to timing and method), *OR WITHOUT THEM*. Bush said he didn't need their help back then; he hasn't apologized for saying that, nor for his other bits of angry posturing. Bush shut them out of reconstruction... excuse me, he shut them out of "lucrative reconstruction contracts", a phrase I think the Bushies invented to make it sound like the non-war-supporters would only be upset due to selfishness.
But, gee... we're now going back and asking them for money and troops, after cutting them out of a chance to help our their own companies.
Plus, think carefully about this one, folks.
If there were a few French and German companies trying to make a few billion in Iraq reconstruction, wouldn't France and Germany have a damn good reason to be *really* concerned with security?
A President of the US needs to be able to swallow his pride and his anger at being criticized, and do what's best for the country. Just a few measly reconstruction contracts (and maybe less of a bone thrown to Haliburton), and some soft words to help people forget the harsh ones, and he might have turned things around.
So I guess people really can be forgetful. They *can* forget how shabbily we treated our allies, they *can* forget the egregious behavior of the ex-government of Spain, and they can forget all kinds of nasty things.
Journalists should be our memories, to some extent... but they seem to be forgetting, too damn often, as well.
