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


To: trouthead who wrote (507368)12/10/2003 4:15:43 PM
From: Skywatcher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
We are in bed with the Uzbeks and others in that area who have TERRIBLE human rights issues.....TERRIBLE DEMOCRACY....yet as long as the OIL IS THERE>>>>>>>BUSH SUPPORTS THE TIRANTS.........gee.....
the FACT that the UZBEK government is known for BOILING DISSIDENTS ALIVE......
sure sounds like the days of RUMMIE SHAKING HANDS WITH SADAAM......but we have troops in these countries to support tirants...NOT THREATEN them with justice
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To: trouthead who wrote (507368)12/10/2003 4:37:26 PM
From: one_less  Respond to of 769670
 
"If that is the case then why do we let so many tyrants go about their business?

We????? Who we? Not me.

We can't attack, china, korea, rowanda, zimbabwe or suadi arabia, It's not that we can't, its that it would be stupid and counter productive.

...but we sure can kick the ass of the sorry screwed up Iraqis.

You are sadly mistaken. We did not kick the sorry screwed up ass of the Iraqis. In fact, the Iraqis are not sorry and screwed up. They are an honorable and noble people who have been tyrannized by a brutal and despotic criminal regime. We kicked ass on that regime, to our credit. We stuck with the Iraqi people to help them reconstruct their noble state.

"Oh that is truly a measure of our greatness."

Indubitably