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DinoDoc
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AECCP loves Democracy
Sep 1999
time: 23:20
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WEST POINT, N.Y. - President Bush pressed his case Saturday to expand the war against terrorism, telling a new batch of Army officers that America must not only respond to threats but battle a new kind of enemy forcefully and head-on by taking preemptive action.
Bush told the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy since the Sept. 11 attack on America that ''the promise of massive retaliation against nations'' is not enough to guard against ``shadowy terrorist networks with no nation or citizens to defend.''
NO CONTAINMENT
''The war on terror will not be won on the defensive,'' he said. ''We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge.'' The president said a policy of containment would not work against ''unbalanced dictators'' with weapons of mass destruction that can be delivered on planes or sold to terrorists.
Bush appeared to issue a veiled threat to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, though he never mentioned the man or the country by name.
''We cannot defend America and our friends by hoping for the best,'' he said. ``If we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long.''
Standing at one end of Michie Stadium on a balmy, cloudless morning, Bush told 958 graduates celebrating West Point's 200th anniversary that they would ``stand between your fellow citizens and grave danger.''
''All nations that decide for aggression and terror will pay a price,'' he said. ``We will not leave the safety of America and the peace of the planet at the mercy of a few mad terrorists and tyrants. We will lift this dark threat from our country and from the world.''
Bush made clear that the terrorist risk remains.
''The dangers have not passed,'' he said. ``This government and the American people are on watch. We are ready, because we know the terrorists have more money and more men and more plans.''
MORAL FOUNDATION
Following a European trip in which he confronted opposition to U.S policies, Bush carefully laid a moral foundation for the war on terrorism.
''Some worry that it is somehow undiplomatic or impolite to speak the language of right and wrong. I disagree,'' he said. ``Different circumstances require different methods, but not different moralities. . . . Targeting innocent civilians for murder is always and everywhere wrong. . . .
''There can be no neutrality between justice and cruelty, between the innocent and the guilty. We are in a conflict between good and evil and America will call evil by its name,'' Bush said. ``By confronting evil and lawless regimes, we do not create a problem, we reveal a problem. And we will lead the world in opposing it.'' |
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/3382940.htm
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:20
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Khatami is waiting...
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Roland
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Auf'm Jahrmarkt :(
May 1999
time: 06:20
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"moral foundation" - LMGDFAO!!!!
Ok, "preemptive" actions taken or considered by the Bush regime so far:
- A retroactive tax cut for the best contributing corporations ("economic security", ya know?)
- Allowing the (in)security apparatus to sniff everywhere (something for the police state lovers)
- Attacking Iraq (For the nutty right wing and the oil industry)
- Steel tariffs (American steel for american weapons, or so - sure applies to bananas too ?)
- pork spending all the way, no holds barred (with the other wing of the kleptocratic party happily joining in)
- Alaska oil drilling (to store terrorists in the holes?)
- An increased propaganda effort bordering on hysteria to keep the phony "war" on "terror" alive
- in the process doing the terrorists' business by spreading fear - but hey, that's sure worth it
- but it's convenient to detract from the insane corruption in his regime, like the Enronites, the energy commission, ****'s Halliburton...
- spreading the phony war to Cuba (guess Bro Jeb needs those cuban votes)
- a complete ****-up in the Israel/palestinian crisis
- a hypocrisy-based diplomacy failure in the India/Pakistan crisis
- strengthened the Mullahs in Iran with his Axis of Evil Bullcrap
- leaving the "war on terror" as a danger, an annoyance or a joke, depending on your level of cynicism
There sure is more, but let's look at preemptive actions not taken:
- Reforms at intelligence other than collecting more data that no one can analyse (but if targetted on an average citizen who unlike a terrorist will not seek to hide much, it's quite efficient)
- a consistent plan to get international agreement on fighting terrorism, not just those forms the Bush regime deems useful fighting - then he may have a little bit of right to use the word "moral"
After the routing of the Taliban regime, Bush has become the terrorists' best ally. Impeachment ? Can you add Cheney and the others in line to rout the whole gang ?
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markusf
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well once ballard power and a few other companies start mass producing those desposts will be without a revenue source and then all hell will break loose in the middle east. That and their oppressive religion will make sure that nothing the west ever does in the middle east is going to amount to anything.
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Bereta_Eder
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do they sell it separetely I wonder?
Or do you have to buy the whole black model? would be a drag...
anyways, terrorism must stop.
the only thing that keeps Europe from having to face it herself is that we don't go around screwing people over because we have the US doing it for us.
if we would have to do it ourselves, we would face terrorism.
and it would be much easier to strike at Europe because we are relaxed and have plenty of volunteers from our illastrious residents.
yep, the guys in the turbans know that it works. So we have to stand up and with one voice say NO.
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Bereta_Eder
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(also say No to cigarretes).
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Bereta_Eder
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yes a fine line.
no to terrorism and also no to the use of the term terrorism for other aims.
two front war.
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Bereta_Eder
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and we can do plenty besides showing our bare butts to the US President. (and keeping an eye to our own governments)
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