foucaulteco
03-15-04, 08:20 PM
In my humble opinion history will not vindicate G.W.Bush, in fact, depending who writes said history, his legacy will be one of hypocracy, croynism of the highest order and untruths.
Although I don't beleive Churchill to be the greatest politician by a long shot, being responsible for some catastrophies (Gallipolli/Dardenelles) and posessing a colonial and warlike attitude with extreme right wing tendencies as demonstrated in his dealings with the suffregetes and Ghandi, he did pen some of my all time favourite quotes, one of which is "you can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time"
G>W>Bush seems to think he can.
He is either extremely ignorant and in receipt of some god awful advise or he is an arrogant prick who considers the mass populace as trailer park trash who only watch Fox news and therefore he can do and say what he likes.
Is he so blinded/blinkered that he doesn't realise that there are a good few people out there who do take their news seriously and go about finding the truth through other channels not dominated by freinds of the Republican party? or does he think that we are in such a minority as not to count?
I wanted to list here just one example of Bush's real foreign policy agenda.
The REAL reason Afganistan and Iraq happened.
When people were going on about "No Blood for Oil" they were spot on, that's exactly what has driven his foreign policy agenda, oil contracts and pipelines.
We have to remember that Bush Snr and son are oil men from Texas, they were dealing with members of the Taliban in Texas well bofore Sept 11th.
The Bush's had received said Taliban in relation to a 3billion dollar pipeline, the deal didn't get the go ahead until after the Taliban were removed.
This is another story however, the one I want to descibe today also shows the hypocracy of this administration.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories doing the rounds, a lot of people find it an amazing coincidence that America's "hit list" seems to taly exactly with Israels etc... maybe there is some connection, but I beleive that it comes down to money, pure and simple greed.
The war on terror is to benifit not the population as a whole, but the few who will benifit from the lucrative oil contracts and infrastructure rebuilding pfojects. After all does anyone REALLY beleive that we are any safer because of the policies of GWB??? the opposite is true as we all dam well know, the only thing we have gained is a slow erasure of our liberties under the auspicies of homeland security etc... BS!!
On to the case at hand....
Azerbaijan.
Unlike the Taliban, the former president Aliyev supported the 3billion $ pipeline mentioned above, one that was to take oil from the Caspian to Turkey. Aliyev also granted billions in contracts to BP-Amoco, ChevronTexaco and the infamous Exxonmobil, I seem to recall some of Bush's top men also served on the boards of some of these companies! Chenney was VP at Halliburton the company slated to build this blood stained pipeline. God it makes me so f*&kin angry that so many young people from both sides have suffered so much for the profits of so few!
Never in the feild of human conflict has so much being being owed by so few to so many for just cash.
Anyway, in October 2003 Ilham Aliyev, the son of the despot was inaugerated, this regime in Azerbaijan is on a par with the one in Iraq under Hussain, the elections were the same, a facade there was no doubt who would win, international observers called it "blatantly fraudulent"
The protests that followed by opposition members resulted in brutal beatings and in turn a nationwide crackdown on decent 1000's arrested tortured, raped, beaten, electric shock treatment etc... there are still 100's imprisoned, these cases have been documented by Human Rights Watch so it is not just hearsay or conjecture.
In the meantime the new president Aliyev has consolidated his dictatorial power base and made himself director of Azerbaijani radio and T.V!!!
Basically one would assume this country would be a part of the so called axis of evil and a good place for Bush to implement his "spreading freedom to the world" policy.
The opposite is true and proves the hypocracy of Bush and his cronies.
Bush and his men have embraced Mr Aliyev, ignored his human rights violations and fraud and personal corruption.
What Bush has done is waive congressional restrictions and granted 3million$ of military aid with more to come.
Rumsfeld visited Baku in December and was promised the use of bases for US troops, thus giving Aliyev legitimacy as he feels that he now has a strategic partner in the US. When you lie in bed with the devil you get your dick bitten off like the US did when it funded the Talliban and Al-Q and let the CIA train them up, don't they ever learn?
Bush himself has said "60 years of Western nations excusing and accomadating the lack of freedom in the middle east did nothing to make us safe" and four months ago he said "In the long run stabillity cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty" but in Azerbaijan Bush is once again embracing a corrupt dictator, a dangerous precident for the rest of the oil rich Caucuses and centrl Asian republics.
U.S diplomats and oil execs portray Mr. Aliyev as a pro-westerner and moderate who plans to liberalize the police state he inherited from his father but that is BS! He has reinstated the old ministers from his fathers regime and promised to persue the smae policies including relentless and ruthless suppression of peaceful and pro-democracy opposition.
Whilst Mr.Aliyev was at the state owned OIL COMPANY (a common theme with Bush eh????) Azerbaijan was rated the 6th corrupt country in the world by transparency international.
An indictment unsealed in the southern New York district charges that millions of dollars were paid in bribes to top Azeri officials, when Mr Aliyev was VP, to privatise the state oil co.
Propping up this despot is the same policy as was followed for decades ref the mid east and Persian gulf and completely flies in the face of what Bush's public possition is, Jeez Aliyev is another Hussain what the hell is going on here??? How can Bush get away with such blatent hypocracy???
I suppose he seems to have gotten away with the lies he told to justify the war on Iraq so now he thinks he is invincible.
IMAGINE PEOPLE, if he wins the election in November! the American people will be basically saying "yeah, you can bullshit us all you want to advance your own business interests, yeah you can send our young men and women off to war on false pretencies and we won't give a shit we won't even want to hear about all the body bags coming home, we don't want to know about all the maimed and injured that are filling the military hospital wards appro11,000 of them, Mr Bush you can do what the hell you want without UN say so, go into Syria of Iran, no worries take away our personal freedoms we don't care, take away our jobs (2million of them so far) you're doing a good job, yeah 4 more years!! yeah go Bush we love you!!"
If he gets in again I give up, I will give in to the beleive that we are just puppets on a string, I'll beleive that we really have lost our humanity and my faith in it will be lost,along with my faith in the basic decency of the American people.
I really hope it doesn't come to that because on the whole I like to beleive that I am reletivly opptomistic, but 4 more years for Bush will douse said opptomism good style, I truely don't beleive the world will survive another 4 years of neo conservatism, and for us to be one election away from anhilation scares me.
Regards and faith in humanity,
Mark from Melbourne (on the beech!)
Although I don't beleive Churchill to be the greatest politician by a long shot, being responsible for some catastrophies (Gallipolli/Dardenelles) and posessing a colonial and warlike attitude with extreme right wing tendencies as demonstrated in his dealings with the suffregetes and Ghandi, he did pen some of my all time favourite quotes, one of which is "you can fool some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time"
G>W>Bush seems to think he can.
He is either extremely ignorant and in receipt of some god awful advise or he is an arrogant prick who considers the mass populace as trailer park trash who only watch Fox news and therefore he can do and say what he likes.
Is he so blinded/blinkered that he doesn't realise that there are a good few people out there who do take their news seriously and go about finding the truth through other channels not dominated by freinds of the Republican party? or does he think that we are in such a minority as not to count?
I wanted to list here just one example of Bush's real foreign policy agenda.
The REAL reason Afganistan and Iraq happened.
When people were going on about "No Blood for Oil" they were spot on, that's exactly what has driven his foreign policy agenda, oil contracts and pipelines.
We have to remember that Bush Snr and son are oil men from Texas, they were dealing with members of the Taliban in Texas well bofore Sept 11th.
The Bush's had received said Taliban in relation to a 3billion dollar pipeline, the deal didn't get the go ahead until after the Taliban were removed.
This is another story however, the one I want to descibe today also shows the hypocracy of this administration.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories doing the rounds, a lot of people find it an amazing coincidence that America's "hit list" seems to taly exactly with Israels etc... maybe there is some connection, but I beleive that it comes down to money, pure and simple greed.
The war on terror is to benifit not the population as a whole, but the few who will benifit from the lucrative oil contracts and infrastructure rebuilding pfojects. After all does anyone REALLY beleive that we are any safer because of the policies of GWB??? the opposite is true as we all dam well know, the only thing we have gained is a slow erasure of our liberties under the auspicies of homeland security etc... BS!!
On to the case at hand....
Azerbaijan.
Unlike the Taliban, the former president Aliyev supported the 3billion $ pipeline mentioned above, one that was to take oil from the Caspian to Turkey. Aliyev also granted billions in contracts to BP-Amoco, ChevronTexaco and the infamous Exxonmobil, I seem to recall some of Bush's top men also served on the boards of some of these companies! Chenney was VP at Halliburton the company slated to build this blood stained pipeline. God it makes me so f*&kin angry that so many young people from both sides have suffered so much for the profits of so few!
Never in the feild of human conflict has so much being being owed by so few to so many for just cash.
Anyway, in October 2003 Ilham Aliyev, the son of the despot was inaugerated, this regime in Azerbaijan is on a par with the one in Iraq under Hussain, the elections were the same, a facade there was no doubt who would win, international observers called it "blatantly fraudulent"
The protests that followed by opposition members resulted in brutal beatings and in turn a nationwide crackdown on decent 1000's arrested tortured, raped, beaten, electric shock treatment etc... there are still 100's imprisoned, these cases have been documented by Human Rights Watch so it is not just hearsay or conjecture.
In the meantime the new president Aliyev has consolidated his dictatorial power base and made himself director of Azerbaijani radio and T.V!!!
Basically one would assume this country would be a part of the so called axis of evil and a good place for Bush to implement his "spreading freedom to the world" policy.
The opposite is true and proves the hypocracy of Bush and his cronies.
Bush and his men have embraced Mr Aliyev, ignored his human rights violations and fraud and personal corruption.
What Bush has done is waive congressional restrictions and granted 3million$ of military aid with more to come.
Rumsfeld visited Baku in December and was promised the use of bases for US troops, thus giving Aliyev legitimacy as he feels that he now has a strategic partner in the US. When you lie in bed with the devil you get your dick bitten off like the US did when it funded the Talliban and Al-Q and let the CIA train them up, don't they ever learn?
Bush himself has said "60 years of Western nations excusing and accomadating the lack of freedom in the middle east did nothing to make us safe" and four months ago he said "In the long run stabillity cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty" but in Azerbaijan Bush is once again embracing a corrupt dictator, a dangerous precident for the rest of the oil rich Caucuses and centrl Asian republics.
U.S diplomats and oil execs portray Mr. Aliyev as a pro-westerner and moderate who plans to liberalize the police state he inherited from his father but that is BS! He has reinstated the old ministers from his fathers regime and promised to persue the smae policies including relentless and ruthless suppression of peaceful and pro-democracy opposition.
Whilst Mr.Aliyev was at the state owned OIL COMPANY (a common theme with Bush eh????) Azerbaijan was rated the 6th corrupt country in the world by transparency international.
An indictment unsealed in the southern New York district charges that millions of dollars were paid in bribes to top Azeri officials, when Mr Aliyev was VP, to privatise the state oil co.
Propping up this despot is the same policy as was followed for decades ref the mid east and Persian gulf and completely flies in the face of what Bush's public possition is, Jeez Aliyev is another Hussain what the hell is going on here??? How can Bush get away with such blatent hypocracy???
I suppose he seems to have gotten away with the lies he told to justify the war on Iraq so now he thinks he is invincible.
IMAGINE PEOPLE, if he wins the election in November! the American people will be basically saying "yeah, you can bullshit us all you want to advance your own business interests, yeah you can send our young men and women off to war on false pretencies and we won't give a shit we won't even want to hear about all the body bags coming home, we don't want to know about all the maimed and injured that are filling the military hospital wards appro11,000 of them, Mr Bush you can do what the hell you want without UN say so, go into Syria of Iran, no worries take away our personal freedoms we don't care, take away our jobs (2million of them so far) you're doing a good job, yeah 4 more years!! yeah go Bush we love you!!"
If he gets in again I give up, I will give in to the beleive that we are just puppets on a string, I'll beleive that we really have lost our humanity and my faith in it will be lost,along with my faith in the basic decency of the American people.
I really hope it doesn't come to that because on the whole I like to beleive that I am reletivly opptomistic, but 4 more years for Bush will douse said opptomism good style, I truely don't beleive the world will survive another 4 years of neo conservatism, and for us to be one election away from anhilation scares me.
Regards and faith in humanity,
Mark from Melbourne (on the beech!)