Why is it only Bush? Do you guys remember Clinton at all?
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(a) invasions, bombing, etc
And it was different under Clinton? Com'mon! Clinton fired
far more cruise missiles into Iraq than W.! The only reason W. gets a lot of TV media heat is because he put US soldiers on the ground, so we're part of the casulties.
After Somalia, Clinton just liked to bomb from a distance. I can't believe people don't remember that about Clinton. He was often demonized for it too.
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(b) absolute unilateralism
Again, was Clinton any different? He often struck Iraq
without UN approval! And how about Bosnia? He went in
without a UN resolution there too (it finally came later)!
23 UN resolutions, 42 coalition partners, etc...
I think you're being influenced by the media.
Especially since W.'s justification was 100% the same that Clinton used.
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Oh give me a break!
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(d) having the drugs to save millions of lives in the third world and being about as generous with them as a grinch
Umm, people can't get them here either. At the same time, where is 98% of the drug research going on and funded by?
W. has given
far more than Clinton to relief efforts in Africa. So if you want to continue to "unilaterally" bash W., you've gotta include Clinton too.
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(e) having so much of the world's wealth and doing relatively little to help those in other countries, maintaining absolute selfishness - see c
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(f) being "addicted to oil" (hypocrite) when oil has caused so much fighting, poverty, imbalance and death
Agreed. And the environmental policy of the US -- the popular ignorance of its people -- is the problem. If the US would attack its power grid, like France and Japan have done, like how the UK is doing -- we could address 90% of our pollution output and energy dependency issues.
But
no one is listening to Electrical Engineers. They are saying, "oh, go invest some 'renewable energies' or 'why aren't we building solar panels?'" Again, one word,
ignorance!
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(g) withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, potentially contributing to the demise of us all
We
never joined the
Kyoto Treaty!
Clinton signed it,
the Senate under Clinton shot it down 0-98!!!
If you want to talk about the "demise" of the world -- you need to get a
real treaty that addresses
more than Kyoto. That's what the US and various Asia-Pacific nations are doing -- while Europe sits there and sulks becuase the US and various Asia-Pacific nations
want to include other environmental issues in it!
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I don't blame one man squarely for all of this, but all of this imo would be less worse under a Democrat, under a less tyrannical Republican, we could discuss it forever, but since you complained that you can't put Bush on that list, that is why I put him on that list and in fact chose him. Like I said, those other evil men get all the credit they deserve for their evil... Bush... Bush symbolizes the ultimate capitalist economic and self-righteous butcher. You may think I'm self-righteous, but that's not as big of a problem, as I'm not the President.
Capitalism is the foundation of the US. Yes, I'm sorry we're that way, and it might explain why we hold ourselves to a higher standard than others do of themselves.
If you hate Capitalism, you hate the US. And I'm fine with that.