I realize that this is my third post on this topic, but i think it's important enough to repeat. If I was a better writer or if i was intelligent i could have articulated my point the first time. Lucky for me i know how to copy and paste.
The picture of the president of the United States smiling broadly as he met President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela startled me. Our president is a nice guy. Chavez is anything but.
The State Department maintains that Chávez has attacked democratic traditions and has put Venezuelan democracy on life support with unchecked concentration of power, political persecution, and intimidation. Foreign Affairs magazine says that Chávez is a power-hungry dictator with autocratic and megalomaniacal tendencies whose authoritarian vision and policies are a serious threat to his people. In testimony before the US Senate, the South American project director for the Center for Strategic International Studies said that Chavez's government engages in "arresting opposition leaders, torturing some members of the opposition (according to human rights organizations) and encouraging, if not directing, its squads of Bolivarian Circles to beat up members of Congress and intimidate voters-all with impunity."
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Bush invited the President of Uzbekistan to the White House. Bush kissed the Saudi King. Nixon shook hand with Mao. Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam Hussein. Hell, I'd shake hands with you.
As always you miss the point and demonstrate your utter lack of original thought.
This is no more about a "handshake" than the tea parties were only about a 2% tax increase on the richest 1%.
You need the debate to be simple, because quite frankly, you are a simpleton.
This is about the President of the United States of America not defending his country. Not only has he refused to defend America, he is actively blaming us for just about all the world's ills.
Ok we get it, liberals think America sucks and you want to remold it in your image. We get it and are willing to debate you on the merits of your argument but when you step outside American soil we expect you to be on our team.
Because no matter how bad you think we are the inevitable truth is we are better than everyone else. Would it fucking kill ya to at least pretend you love your country.
Is the president of Uzbekistan some kind of tyrant? I'm not even being a wise ass, i don't know who that is. More importantly I'm pretty sure Bush didn't invite him to the whitehouse a few months after he declared us a sworn enemy and called the former president the devil at the U.N.
Give some kind of context please.Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam? What were the circumstances. Was it after we found him in his spider hole? I don't think so.
Nixon? So now you're justifying what Obama does by comparing him to Nixon?
At least Robert Gibbs gets paid to defend the mistakes of the president. you do it because you're an ideologue and a sycophant. You love this guy because you get an extra 6 weeks of unemployment payments and you think he'll make Europeans love us.
You're a tool. Easily frustrated and swayed by the rhetoric. your arguments are shallow and immature and your mind is closed up like a clam.
I would pity you if i wasn't disgusted by your weakness.
I do love my country and I do not blame it for all the world's ills and neither does Obama. You're just an idiot.
I'm beginning to think you are an automated trollbot because because its ovvious you have no fucking idea what's going on in the world.
The President of Uzbekistan is the worst kind of tyrant. In Uzbekistan they boil dissidents. For photo of Bush smiling and shaking hands see:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3943.htm
In the extraordinary rendition program the U.S. sent detainees to Uzbekistan to be interrogated. I assume you will criticize Bush for this.
Rumsfeld shook hands with Saddam (there is a photo) back when he was an ally of the U.S. You know, when he was gassing the Kurds.
Still no comment from either of you that the waterboarding KSM saves Los Angeles story seems to have been bullshit?
1. is it bullshit? hmmm.....i guess i'll have to trust slate where they love the U.S. and the Bush administration instead of trusting the CIA, and Dick Cheney....AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...oh shit man you're awesome!
2. i won't take your word for the uzbekistan guy.i'll have to look it up.
3. He was gassing kurds? Well it's too bad he's not still in power then. I remember there was a whole bunch of libs who wouldn't admit that the world was a better safer place without saddam. I'm pretty sure you were one of them as a matter of fact.
Here's a thought: don't trust Slate or CNS. Read both and form an opinion based on facts. A radical proposition, I know. But since the alleged Liberty Tower plot was broken up before KSM was captured,well that alone disproves the whole thing. The CIA and Cheney are known for a lot of things but truthfulness is not among them.
Saddam was not a nice guy. Hell, I didn't like him even when the U.S. was cozying up to him and arming him, and I didn't like him when he became the enemy. I opposed the war, as did some Conservatives. The Kurd-gassing thing happened, by the way, while he was our ally and Rumsfeld was shaking hands with him.
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