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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: broadstbull who wrote (492957)	11/15/2003 12:11:15 AM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769667

Thats ok, the KZ was made for former baathists.

To: broadstbull who wrote (492957)	11/15/2003 11:34:46 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"You're either with us, or against us!" I guess there's just too little time or too little tolerance to give consideration to actually scrutinizing why some people do the things they do against America. For example, I've yet to see a national stage US politician pose questions like this, post 9/11: Why? Why would anyone want to kill innocent people? Why would anyone even consider joining an organization like Al Qaeda? What actually makes a terrorist a terrorist? Why do they hate us? Have there been true flaws in American diplomacy which led up to 9/11? Under Bush-Cheney we've seen US threats to boycott the August 2001 worldwide conference against racism (one has to ask: could this have become a go signal for the 9/11ers?); a request for the United Nations to remove the US from the human rights commission; a withdrawal from the world court of law; a true sacking of worldwide environmental initiatives; backstepping on nuclear disarmament issues; a continuation everywhere of inside profit over genuine needs of people. And against the above backdrop is the following: * Percentage of the world's population comprised of Americans: 5% Percentage of the world's resources consumed by Americans: 30% [Denis Hayes, "Eco-Nomic Power," Seattle Weekly, November 10, 1993, p. 15.] * The amount of energy used by one American is equivalent to that used by: o 3 Japanese o 6 Mexicans o 14 Chinese o 38 Indians o 168 Bangladeshi o 531 Ethiopians [Sandy Bauers.] * A person in the U.S. causes 100 times more damage to the global environment than a person in a poor country. [Dianne Dumanoski, "The People Problem," The Boston Globe, February 5,1990, citing Paul Ehrlich.] * Percentage of fossil fuel used annually that is consumed by the U.S.: 25% [Peter A. A. Berle, "Beyond Rio: The Real Challenge," Audubon, September-October 1992, p. 6.] * Percentage of all humans who own a car: 8% [Alan Durning, "Asking How Much Is Enough," State of the World 1991, p. 158.] * Percentage of American households who own one or more cars: 89% [Jeremy Riflkin, p. 33.] * Average annual income of the 3.3 billion people in the global "middle class": $700-7,500 Average annual income of the 1.1 billion people in the global "consumer class": over $7,500 The consumer class takes home 64% of the world's income. [Alan Thein Durning, How Much Is Enough?, pp. 27-8.] * The average amount of pocket money for American children-$230 a year-is more than the total annual income of the world's half-billion poorest people. [Alan Durning, "Asking How Much Is Enough," State of the World 1991, p. 153.] * Possibility that all the world's people could live as Americans do: zero [Ibid., p. 157.]<<< 216.239.39.104 "Terrorism can only be stopped by cultures of peace, democracy, and people's security. It is wrong to define the post-11th September world as a war between "civilization and barbarism" or "democracy and terrorism". It is a war between two forms of terrorism which are mirror images of each other's mindsets - mindsets that can only conceive of monocultures and must erase diversity, the very precondition for peace. They share the dominant culture of violence. They use the same weapons and the same technologies. In terms of the preference for violence and use of terror, both sides are clones of each other. And their victims are innocent people everywhere." resurgence.gn.apc.org Hey, anyone wanna play keep?