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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
529 Posts |
 Posted - 07/16/2006 : 14:05:33
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Orwellingly Yurz sez:
As we look across the world on this Sunday, July 16th, 2006 and take note of the various sites where there's unrest, it doesn't take too much of a stretch of the imagination to identify where more than a fair share of the problem lies. The insensitivity of the "problem" merely sits at the precipise of what must be called a worse-case-scenario. (yo, oy)
A Buzz Flash Heads Up
From a story in "Newsday" that indicates even the mainstream media may be awakening to the gross negligence and cluelessness of Mr. Bush:
"As Israeli warplanes were preparing an attack on Lebanon Thursday afternoon, and a Lebanese militia was aiming a rocket at the ancient Israeli city of Safed, President George W. Bush was bantering with reporters in Germany about a pig.
Bush kept bringing up the roast wild boar he was about to dine on at a banquet that night, even when asked about the swelling crisis in the Middle East, where pig meat is forbidden to religious Jews and Muslims.
"Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed?" a reporter asked. "And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war?"
"I thought you were going to ask me about the pig," Bush replied blithely. Then he brought the pig up again -- for the fifth time -- before giving a long answer that ended with his saying Israel needed to protect itself.
"He was asked a serious question," said Ian Lustick, a Middle East expert now at the University of Pennsylvania, and his answer "epitomized his disengagement in the Middle East."
This is insanity that this man is still in office.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 07/16/2006 : 15:10:53 [Permalink]
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I remember at the beginning of the Iraq war, Bush called the US military effort a "Crusade." Considering that people in the Muslim world -- for good historical reasons -- think of "Crusader" in the same way we think of "Nazi," I shuddered when he used that word. But I thought he was simply talking Bush-stupid as usual, using the term thoughtlessly. I've since come to an understanding, by his consequent actions, that Bush meant exactly what he said.
Now, at press conference with the German PM (who was herself visibly writhing in discomfort as he spoke) Bush five times mentioned his desire to eat a pig -- this on a day when there was no news except for the war between Muslims and Jews. I suspect this was not just the ham-handed utterances of a nincompoop. I think George W. Bush was likely being deliberately anti-semitic in insulting both the Muslim and Jewish religions and peoples. (I mean "anti-semitic" in the larger sense of being prejudiced against all people with a Semitic language heritage.)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 07/16/2006 17:41:32 |
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