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    It would be funny...

    ...if it wasn't so tragic.

    Just heard George (W for What a plonker) Bush castigating the Burmese regime for 'egregious breaches of human rights'.

    Seriously, he just doesn't understand what his speech makers write, otherwise the phrase would have choked and killed him.

    What does he think is going on in Guantanamo Bay? In the legal advice given to US interrogators about, for example, waterboarding?

    I - I - I'm just - I'm just - I can't think of how to say it.

    The Americans expect to be taken seriously by politicians and educated people across the world?

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    Re: It would be funny...

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    ...if it wasn't so tragic.

    George (W for What a plonker) Bush stuff
    One of the drawbacks of a capitalist society. You have rich idiots in power. This is even worse than the normal custom of having intelligent people who are reliant on rich supporters.

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    Re: It would be funny...

    It's sad how much moral authority Bush and Blair have thrown away with the combination of Iraq and Guantanamo.

    And we can see the results throughout the world - bad things happening because we can't intervene as forcefully as we would otherwise - I'm thinking mainly of in Africa (Darfur, Zimbabwe, etc.), but elsewhere as well.

    Having said that, you can go OTT with moral-equivalence games - the Burmese regime is one of the nastiest military dictatorships around, and it shows astonishing courage for large groups of people to stand up to them.

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    Re: It would be funny...

    Quote Originally Posted by DavidJames View Post
    it shows astonishing courage for large groups of people to stand up to them.

    THAT and the fact that when eveything has been forcefully taken away from you - family, security, human rights etc; you have nothing left in your life but to fight to the death for highest cause.

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