December 10, 2003

democracy bushshit

ok, so it’s one thing when bush concocts this whole campaign to attack iraq based on the global threat that iraq presents and the hidden caches of weapons of mass destruction, and then when he can’t find any, he changes the whole aim of the invasion to the glorious and noble goal of bringing democracy to the iraqi people. from the new yorker:

More recently, however, as the justification that he gave first and most often before the war—that Saddam Hussein’s regime represented a direct military threat to the United States, because of his nuclear-weapons program and his ties to Al Qaeda—has dematerialized, the President has rhetorically brought democracy to the fore. Last month, in a speech at the National Endowment for Democracy, he asked—in a spirit that was closer to “Blowin’ in the Wind”—“Are the peoples of the Middle East somehow beyond the reach of liberty? Are millions of men and women and children condemned by history or culture to live in despotism? Are they alone never to know freedom, and never even to have a choice in the matter? I, for one, do not believe it. I believe every person has the ability and the right to be free.” …In the National Endowment for Democracy speech, Bush named not only Iraq but also Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria as countries that are insufficiently democratic.

but, it’s another thing to spew out this convenient crap, and simultaneously not follow it by kowtowing to china, by recommending that taiwan not hold it’s own democratic referendum on a “no missile, no war” stance which would ask voters to demand that china, a clear communist state with clear stated intentions of “retaking” taiwan, remove all its missiles aimed at taiwan. in other words, clearly, it’s not that democracy is really important that we should protect it everywhere we can, but it’s that democracy is a convenient buzzword that we can use to fight countries who probably don’t have nuclear weapons.

ok, a little oversimplification, but fucking come on already. instead of supporting the democracy which has already risen out of martial law (which came from china in the first place), bush has the gall to say that china is a “partner in democracy”.

how bad has it gotten that i’m glad to have conservatives on my side?

But three conservatives, William Kristol, Robert Kagan and Gary Schmitt, issued a statement asking “can it really be President Bush’s position that Taiwan is not permitted to hold any democratic referenda at all?”
Posted at December 10, 2003 12:44 PM
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