It would be an "easy" win...and the right thing to do
When you are used to having all your successes handed to you, and your daddy's friends bail you out...maybe it's just too hard to see the "easy" wins in real life, much less do the right thing, for the right reason.
It almost seems that the news out of Liberia might indicate that sending in troops might be the biggest 'gimme' for the 1600 Crew since execution of Timothy McVeigh. I mean, President McInjection got to look all somber, McVeigh wanted to die, and Ashcroft probably had the first annual White House Onanism and Snake-Handling Orgy ever. When it was all done, they all probably had a smoke, rolled over and fell asleep. It was an event on auto-pilot. But they all came out looking like frickin' heros in their own minds...
The bloodiest barrage in days sent shells crashing into the U.S. Embassy grounds and a school packed with refugees in the rebel-besieged capital Friday -- leaving people wondering why a long-awaited U.S. peace deployment was coming only after so high a toll.
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Rebel leaders welcomed word of the American deployment, ordering their forces to cooperate with any Americans and to cease-fire. The rebels have repeatedly broken promises for a cease-fire, as have government forces.
"I think that's what all Liberians want to hear. We applaud that," rebel official Charles Benney said of the announced American deployment.
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"I want to tell George Bush to do something hurriedly, very fast and quickly," Emmanuel Sieh, 28, cried earlier Friday, as crowds spilled out into the streets following a fierce 20-missile barrage in 10 minutes.
Liberia could be the same easy pre-ordained victory for the 1600 Crew. They might just have to give up their free subscriptions to 'Southern Partisan' and they might lose their endorsements from Bob Jones University in the 2004 election. But hey, look on the bright side, they'd be saving Pat Robertson's diamond investments for him.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.25.03 at 06:30 PM
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Um, Jo, the problem is that Captain Codpiece has already deployed everybody we've got because of that little Iraq thing; sure-- its a tiny deployment in Liberia, and we can probably swing it-- but if something ELSE happens-- we're done! We've got NOTHING left after that (I understand less than 10,000 combat troops now available worldwide-- period). Also-- if it does go south militarily, politically, what's his cover?
On the other hand, it MIGHT back up the "liberation of Iraq" bit-- we DO humanitarian after all.
Well, look for some public relations feel good kind of thing. That would be my guess. A token deployment.
Going into Liberia where no one has made a legitimate case our national interest is a gimme? I'm glad someone has moral clarity when it comes to deploying our troops. (Oh... and humanitarian reasons aren't enough to go to Iraq, remember?)
re: King Bush's supoosed "moral clarity". This is such a joke, Conservatives would have to evolve a conscience in order to have
morality. news flash: being absolutley obsessed with what people do in the privacy of their bedrooms is not morality...its voyuerism.
1. Get Selected not elected Bush to Urge the Russian Federation to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
2.Iraq: Continuing failure to uphold human rights. US soldiers are the best trained in the world, yet have been ill equipped and ill trained to deal with rebuilding the Iraq infastructure all the while dealing with daily terror attacks, much less help the Iraqi people while dodging bullets.Bush lied, soldiers die.Cheney lied soldiers died.Rummy lied soldiers died.Condi Rice lied, soldiers died.
3.Slovakia: get Selected not elected Dubya and company to stop the Illegal sterilization of Romani women
4. ISTANBUL, Turkey( US ally and country known for the widespread abuse of its citizens...protest policies and be jailed..tortured..straved. Turks don't like dissent anymore then Rush Limbaugh(R) or Sean Hannity(R)-get King George to stop the campagian against the Kurds.where Lawyers, intellectuals and writers say Turkey is stepping up a campaign to stifle dissent over its hardline approach to the Kurdish issue
5.African Union: get Selected not elected Bush to Adopt of the Protocol on the Rights of Women - positive step towards combating discrimination and violence against women
6.get Selected not elected Bush to stop our ally Jordan from executing women who have been raped. Rape victims are almost always assumed guilty of somehow causing the rape and thus humiliating themselves and their families.
7.Somalia:
where was King Geoge and Vice King Cheney's moral clarity when their buddies at Enron when villagers’ groups , who did not endorse sabotage, peacefully protested the companies plans for a new power plant. Yet they were met with serious, sometimes brutal human rights violations by Indian authorities and thugs hired by Dubya and Dick's buddy Ken Lay-Enron.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/enron/
8.King George and his pet monkey Karl Rove could send troops to the Sudan: Human rights violations in government-controlled areas everyday.
9.where's King george's moral clarity on Cuba, where the world still demands an investigation into: Demand Justice for the Victims of the "13 de Marzo" Massacre. Cuba would crumble in 48 hours. Surprised the Repukes don't do it just to have another off shore tax haven to hide their money.
10.Indonesia:Indonesia had another turbulent year, marked by a power struggle in Jakarta
and an escalation in regional conflicts. The war in Aceh and an outbreak of
communal violence in West Kalimantan produced the most civilian casualties, but
conflicts in the Moluccas, Central Sulawesi, and Papua continued to simmer. By
October, the number of displaced persons remained well over one million, half of
them from the Moluccas.
The government made no serious efforts to address past or current abuses, new
human rights legislation notwithstanding. The number of political prisoners rose
steadily during the year, with many peaceful political activists charged with
“spreading hatred toward the government,” an offense associated with the government
of former president Soeharto. The justice system remained a shambles.
11.Afghanistan: Crumbling prison system desperately in need of repair. hungry childeren. abused women. people still afraid of warlords...we've been there a year.
12.Jamaica: "...Until their voices are heard...":dissedents jailed, some "disappear".The Report of the West Kingston Commission of Inquiry
13.For decades the people of Iraq have suffered appalling human rights abuses and the devastating consequences of war and economic sanctions. For DECADES Amnesty International's members and supporters have campaigned tirelessly for the rights and dignity of Iraq's people...where was george, where was rumsfield, we know that tricky Dick Cheney was selling them oil supples and lied about it. Rummy and Reagan knew in the late eighties Iraq/Saddam was in violation of the Geneva acords of 1925, yet still sold them arms and chemical weapons. Dubya lied, he doesn't care about the Iraqi people, he cares about power and oil. Dubya lied and children die.
14.Six foreign nationals held in Guantánamo Bay could face unfair trials and even the death penalty after being named under a Military Order issued by US President George W Bush. Everyone deserves a fair trial. Act now to ensure that the US upholds, not undermines, international standards of justice. it's not "moral clarity" when you hang them first and have a trial after.
15.Every day 36,000 women in the Russian Federation are beaten by their husbands or partners.Yet men who beat or rape their wives or commit other acts of violence in the family are unlikely to face prosecution. Take action...not for Georgie boy...we need Russian oil for our SUV's.
16.Indiscriminately linked to armed opposition groups or branded "trouble makers", Liberian refugees are at risk of being killed, ill-treated and forcibly recruited by all parties to the conflict in Côte d'Ivoire. Liberia will be tricky and deadly as Iraq is now....how will the Marines
know who is friend or foe. Bless them if they go.
17.Amnesty International is gravely concerned by recent serious human rights violations in Myanmar. More than 100 members and supporters of the National League for Democracy are missing and/or injured after a violent incident on 30 May 2003. George's map doesn't include Myanmar I guess.
18.The Estado Mayor Presidencial has served as one of Guatemala’s most notorious military intelligence units and has been implicated in many of the country’s high profile human rights abuse cases.
19.Srebrenica: Still Waiting for Truth and Justice. Another map problem at the yellowed Whitehouse.
20.Conservative estimates suggest that some 17,000 persons in Bosnia-Herzegovina are still recorded as missing. Amnesty International has campaigned for the resolution of all cases of "disappearances", and for all those responsible to be brought to justice. Money saver: we have the same commission investigate this and Bush family connections to Carlye Co. and Dick Cheney's insider trading at Halliburton...if we can prosecute Martha Stewart we can georgie Boy and tricky Dick
20.The Amnesty International Report 2003 documents HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN 151 countries and territories during 2002. Please...please ...please let's by all means lets see some moral clarity. Oh that's right, you have to have morals firs.Selected not elected Bush Boy sold his soul long ago.
21.Get Selected not elected Bush to Urge the Russian Federation to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Take action.....impeach Bush and get a real leader.
22. last, but not least....maybe Selected not elected King george and John ASScroft could take a look around here at home.
Violence and crimes are a daily occurrence in the US society, where people's life, freedom and personal safety are under serious threat. the number of criminal cases in the United States reached 12.476 million, including 1.531 million violent crime cases and 17,000 murder cases; and for every 100,000 people, there were 4,616 criminal cases, including 566 involving violent crimes. From 1977 to 1996, more than 400,000 Americans were murdered, almost seven times the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. During the years since 1997, another 480,000 people have been murdered in the country. According to a report carried by the Christian Science Monitor in its January 22, 2002 issue, the murder rate in the United States at present stands at 5.5 persons per 100,000 people. According to data provided by police stations in 18 major US cities, the number of murder cases in many big cities in 2001 increased drastically, with those in Boston and Phoenix City increasing the fastest. In the year to December 18, 2001, the number of murder cases in the two cities increased by more than 60 percent over the same period of the previous year. The number of murder cases increased by 22 percent in St. Louis, 17.5 percent in Houston, 15 percent in St. Antonio, 11.6 percent in Atlanta, 9.2 percent in Los Angeles and 5.2 percent in Chicago. According to the same report of the Christian Science Monitor, on campuses of colleges and universities in the United States in 2001, the number of murder cases increased by almost 100 percent over 2000, that of arson cases by about 9 percent, that of break-ins by 3 percent.
impeach the crime family that hijacked our government, and elect one with some Moral Clarity.
posted by: Never sellyoursoul on 07.26.03 at 09:50 PM [permalink]
