KNOW YOUR ENEMY
sandintoes,
Empathy is something that is very difficult for RWEs like you. You are only interested in your own selfish and greedy ends, so you have a blind spot when it comes to thinking about how you come across to other people.
Now, lets think this Iraq thing through. Imagine if you will that the Chinese have invaded the United States, and they have set up roadblocks in your neighborhood. Each time you want to go down to the hairdressers, the grocery store or the fitness center, you are pulled over in a roadblock and roughly handled by soldiers who speak Mandarin and can't understand a word you say in English. Would you feel resentful? Would you feel that these soldiers were foreign? Would you feel that they were intruders and that they needed to be fought against? Of course you would. You're selfish. You wouldn't want the inconvenience, not to mention the fact that your house could be a target for their tanks, helicopters and gunships. You'd hate having something like that happening to you.
Now imagine you are a successful Iraqi woman with a middle class life and an invading colonial army of occupiers attacked your home town. How are you going to feel about the Americans? You'd hate their guts. And so would I.
So, can you empathize with the people of Iraq and see why they resent us? We both know, when we are being honest, that Bush isn't in Iraq for the sake of "democracy", hell, he's doing everything he can in the U.S. to end democracy. Think Homeland Security, think USA PATRIOT Act. Think Total Information Awareness schemes.
George Bush is in Iraq to steal the oil. Everyone knows that. Bush lies about. But you don't have to.
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Another example? If George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Bend Franklin, John Hancock and the rest of our Founding Fathers were alive today and living in Iraq, they'd be on the side of the Iraqi freedom fighters. And they would see George Bush as just as autocratic, aristocratic and evil as we saw England's King George III. George Bush is an evil war racketeer. He's getting rich off this war, as are his buddies. And he's screwing the American taxpayer and all the people of Iraq with his crimes.
George Bush is the traitor to our nation. Not me. |
