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Kia Kaha
Feelin' irie

Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Scotland
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| quote: | | ummm I hate to break it to you but they've been arresting peeps all over the world that were connected to this...some to be known supporters of Bin Laden...and Bush is asking for permission before doing this...he doesn't want to cause WWIII. We already asked Russia if we could use their air space to bomb afghanistan and they agreed and will let us. The U.K. is also behind us as well as Germany who aided us in arresting some in Hamburg. Political policies dictate that the President goes to countries to rally support and to see who is behind him and who isn't. We did this in the Gulf War too. We don't just go into war all alone. And Bush can't go in a nuke some peeps as you so eloquently put it earlier...only Congress can declare War..the president can't. And the president only has certain powers to do air strikes and such without petitioning congress to declare war. I think Bush is handling this very well. We are in the mess largely due to Clinton who stuck his nose in the war between Palestine and Israel...trying to help the peace process while always making it known we were on Israel's side. Who do you think Bin Laden got all this money from??? Palestine is sure to be a funder of this extrimist! So please learn something about the way the US is run...how our goverenment opperates...bc its people like you who screwed up the election this year with all these sillie notions about politics and such |
My apologies twilochik, I didn't mean to piss you off, all I meant to say was that while I don't like the Bush administration at all on the whole (this year the Republicans have implemented some shockingly bad policies on environment, third world aid and public health for a start), but I do think he is the right man to take a totally firm stance on this and throw all his weight into sorting out this terrorist issue once and for all. He tends to take hard line conservative moral stances, some of which I violently disagree with, like his anti-abortion policy, but I think the way he's talking about the WTC bombing is the right way, he's separated the politics from the straight up issue of good-vs-evil that we can all see, but that many politicians are afraid to talk about. And for that I applaud him wholeheartedly.
Hopefully the positive upshot from this tragedy will be a final agreement amongst world governments that there is no place on this planet for extreme religious and political redicals, that reckon they have to go and do things like this. I'd love to see a dedicated UN anti terrorism assault force with the ability to go anywhere and take terrorists out wherever they exist before they can do harm. The Islamic religion doesn't have a monopoly on this either, here in the UK we've had the IRA killing civilians for decades, just as disgusting, although obviously the WTC attack has taken it to a whole new level.
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Sep-13-2001 18:26
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Henkie_henk
Almighty Trance Addict

Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Viva Hollanda
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Sep-13-2001 18:38
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ABTsportsline
Disabled Veteran

Registered: May 2001
Location: Rural WA, USA
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I caught wind of this article from a Canadian Newspaper - a friend passed it on to me, i thought it would be a good read for all of those of you who think America "deserved" this, or that we always get involved for no reason....
A TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES
America: The Good Neighbor.
Widespread but only partial news coverage was given
recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon
Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. What follows is the
full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional
Record:
"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the
Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated
people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent,
Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the
Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other
billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the
interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956,
it was the Americans who propped it up, and their
reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets
of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the
United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59
American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody
helped.
The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped
billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now
newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent,
warmongering Americans.
I'd like to see just one of those countries that
is gloating over the erosion of the United States
dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country
in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo
Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?
If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the
International lines
except Russia fly American Planes?
Why does no other land on earth even consider putting
a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese
technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy,
and you get automobiles.
You talk about American technocracy, and you find
men on the moon -! not once, but several times -
and safely home again.
You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs
right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their
draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our
streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws,
are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.
When the railways of France, Germany and India
were breaking down through age, it was the Americans
who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and
the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an
old caboose. Both are still broke.
I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced
to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name
me even one time when someone else raced to the
Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside
help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one
Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get
kicked around. They will come out of this thing with
their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb
their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present
troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
Stand proud, America!"
....remember that....
-ABT-
___________________
Peace.
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