Saturday, September 04, 2004
blue oregon thoughts
A couple of days ago I posted about what I think Bush's true agenda is - a culture war, not only against progressives in the US, but against non-christian countries such as Iraq.
Bush and many of his followers obviously believe that there's just no reasoning with those people over there in the middle east (and heck, it's only the "girly men" who'd want to reason with them). Since these countries haven't discovered and embraced capitalism, democracy and Jesus Christ despite the fact that they've been around much longer than our country, they must not be capable of ruling themselves and will pose a gathering threat to our safety due to their own inability to solve their own problems. (do I have this right, Brett?) Therefore, we must bring freedom and democracy to these poor people, and we need a conservative Christian to lead our charge.
Kerry needs to be out there talking about how far out of the mainstream Bush is, and how reckless his foreign policies have been - foreign policies which have brought about the deaths of well over 10,000 people, and have made the US a pariah among nations. A reporter tonight on NOW even said that to carry a US passport in Iraq was to invite disaster. The RNC convention was a show designed to show Bush's (false) face to the world while ratifying the true (ultra-conservative) platform that they are trying to pass off as moderate.
"Capitalist democracies, on the other hand, don't produce terrorists."
So who caused the Oklahoma City bombings?
Until we have a president who is willing to study and analyze the root causes of terrorism, instead of bombing cultures which we find too different to understand, we will not be safer. And all this talk about which weapon Kerry may or may not have supported is just smoke and mirrors designed to bring down a candidate who (I'm willing to bet) will approach these complicated issues from a much more thoughtful and effective point of view than our current commander in chief who (as Kerry said today) is "all hat, and no cattle." ¶ 1:30 AM
A couple of days ago I posted about what I think Bush's true agenda is - a culture war, not only against progressives in the US, but against non-christian countries such as Iraq.
Bush and many of his followers obviously believe that there's just no reasoning with those people over there in the middle east (and heck, it's only the "girly men" who'd want to reason with them). Since these countries haven't discovered and embraced capitalism, democracy and Jesus Christ despite the fact that they've been around much longer than our country, they must not be capable of ruling themselves and will pose a gathering threat to our safety due to their own inability to solve their own problems. (do I have this right, Brett?) Therefore, we must bring freedom and democracy to these poor people, and we need a conservative Christian to lead our charge.
Kerry needs to be out there talking about how far out of the mainstream Bush is, and how reckless his foreign policies have been - foreign policies which have brought about the deaths of well over 10,000 people, and have made the US a pariah among nations. A reporter tonight on NOW even said that to carry a US passport in Iraq was to invite disaster. The RNC convention was a show designed to show Bush's (false) face to the world while ratifying the true (ultra-conservative) platform that they are trying to pass off as moderate.
"Capitalist democracies, on the other hand, don't produce terrorists."
So who caused the Oklahoma City bombings?
Until we have a president who is willing to study and analyze the root causes of terrorism, instead of bombing cultures which we find too different to understand, we will not be safer. And all this talk about which weapon Kerry may or may not have supported is just smoke and mirrors designed to bring down a candidate who (I'm willing to bet) will approach these complicated issues from a much more thoughtful and effective point of view than our current commander in chief who (as Kerry said today) is "all hat, and no cattle." ¶ 1:30 AM
