[lit-ideas] Re: Iraq & news
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:57:19 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
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From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jan 28, 2005 7:41 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Iraq & news
Michael Chase writes:
"Does Phil *really* want us to believe that anybody about the Bush
decision-makers gives a flying f*** about what happens to Iraq and the
Iraqis after the US has gone?"
I don't want people to believe anything in particular. I believe that,
no matter how incompetently Iraq has been handled, decision makers in
the Bush administration do want the best for Iraq and Iraqis, and I have
been trying to provide some justification for that belief.
I fail to see how political discourse is possible if one assumes that
one's opponent has only the worst possible motives. No matter how much
I dislike Bush, I do think he really is trying to make the world a
better place. No matter how much I disagree with them, many of the
people surrounding Bush are very intelligent, articulate and
well-meaning. It seems to me that denying facts like these reduces the
conversation to paranoid rants and hand-waving. Jon Stewart, on CNN's
'Crossfire', did a great job of pointing this out.
A.A. Bush doesn't give a hoot about people or about humanity. He offered a
whopping $15 million for the tsunami, $40 million for his party. He relieved
his Lear jet flying friends of paying taxes while emptying the treasury for
everybody else. He's eliminating Social Security he loves people so much. He
cut CDC by 13%. And on and on.
Bush is a sociopath with no conscience surrounded by people so incompetent they
expected to be greeted as liberators. These are the facts that are being
denied in attributing good motives to people-hater Bush.
Andy Amago
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Toronto, ON
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