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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 07:12 PM
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"Bush's real peers are not US presidents but Third World dictators."
Edited on Tue Jun-01-04 07:23 PM by TruthIsAll
Scoop: "Bush's real peers are not US presidents but Third World dictators, like Pinochet, many of whom his father put in office.

Their coda is clear:

1.Use of "terror" as an excuse for totalitarian control
... Terror lady' in US custody, says Pakistan Posted May 29 ... Will Bush the Beheader use terrorism to become our Pinochet ... Bush wanted a war, and by hook and crook, he ...
www.whatreallyhappened.com/ - 94k - May 30, 2004

2. Official secrecy for its own sake
... for criticism of President Bush over secrecy, corporate connections ... the enemy," said a GOP official familiar with ... and defense secretary for Bush's father when ...
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A47467-2004Jan25?language=printer

3. Seizure of power in contempt of free elections
The role of the Bush Administration is most ... personalities, agencies and networks competing for power. ...
www.ukpol.co.uk/messages/messages/23/2517.html?1054490505

4. Totalitarian militarism
... The climate of militarism and fear, similar to any totalitarian state, permeates everything. Bush is the first American president in memory to swagger around ...
www.rense.com/general39/messg.htm

5. Abuse of human rights and liberties
... The stance of the Bush administration finds its reflection throughout the ... assessment notes increased militarism and the systematic abuse of human rights. ...
www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/amne-j08.shtml

6. Love of the death penalty
... supports state killings, but not with the same enthusiasm as Bush - Washington is ... Let's think about the above in relation to the death penalty: Love is always ...
www.uncletaz.com/deathpen.html


7. Hatred of a free press
... Our job is not to make your job easy.". Predictably, the reporters who cover Bush aren't happy. ... Free the White House press corps! ...
www.nydailynews.com/front/story/153998p-135485c.html

8. Imprisonment without legal recourse
... ignore any part of the realm's legal system. ... in reporting on the indefinite imprisonment, without charges, of ... has been expanded by George W. Bush to include ...
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0409/hentoff.php

9. Widespread torture
... Torture, abuse and humiliation of prisoners is widespread in US ... tell the world that the cases of torture of Iraqi ... US President George W. Bush has said the acts ...
www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=507470§ion=news

10. Brazen theft of public billions
... has ever seen -- pure and simple, the theft of the ... of the five Justices, even the brazen shameless Scalia ... BUSH-RUMSFELD MISSILE PLAN MEANS BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE ...
http://bushwatch.org/homefeb.htm

11. "Free market" smokescreens for corporate domination
... The free market does not threaten national sovereignty, it ... the same day President George Bush said, "We ... such sophistic and fastidious smokescreens, the consent ...
www.buddycom.com/entertain/veejay/vj42.html


12. Taxing the poor to benefit the rich
... Rich or poor, Americans are being ransacked by the government's ... King George III when he wasn't taxing us at ... Mr Bush is doing the best thing possible at the ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/2635851.stm


13. Hatred of labor unions
... well. Bush might call on Congress to place the union under the Railway Labor Act, instead of the National Labor Relations Act. Under ...
www.greenleft.org.au/back/2002/504/504p19.htm

14. Decimation of the natural environment
... Nature & Environment Secret Pentagon Study Warns of Coming Global Warming Decimation on Earth. Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change ...
www.thetruthseekers.com/cat_index_29.shtml

15. Assaulting elected leaders anywhere, anytime
... was a different president, one who was actually elected. ... The right wingers keep assaulting our freedom to speak and ... However, few dare to confront W. Bush as he ...
www.mikehersh.com/When_Dissent_Was_Duty.shtml

16. Contempt for international treaties
... a new world order of treaties and international law. ... To treat the United Nations with contempt today is to ... The Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war, the doctrine ...
www.commondreams.org/views03/0407-10.htm


17. Reactionary alliance with right wing church groups
... Bush's decision to set up a White House Office of Faith-Based ... deeply obstructive role" and of being in an "unholy alliance with reactionary forces." Clare ...
www.cath4choice.org/new/opeds/110001Church&State.htm

18. Contempt for women's rights
... calls diplomacy reflects its brazen contempt for democracy both ... We condemn the Bush Administration's plan to ... International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, USA ...
www.madre.org/art_iraq_UnitePeace.html


19. Manipulating divisions of race and class
Meanwhile Bush has beheaded the American economy, replacing First World surpluses with Third World debt. ...
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0405/S00293.htm

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Alerter_ Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-01-04 07:17 PM
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1. Banana Republicans
Same people behind Latin American dictatorships are the people behind Bush.
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