Bush at the UN---a war criminal takes the podium

[King_Crimson]

this from http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/bush-s24_prn.shtml

Ya gotta like these guys...they pull NO punches

By Bill Vann
24 September 2003

President George W. Bush's ignorant and insulting speech to the United Nations General Assembly September 23 made clear that the US administration has all but written off any hope of obtaining significant international support for it's colonial venture in Iraq.

Bush came before the body as an unrepentant war criminal, whose actions had violated the UN Charter and international law by waging a war of aggression as criminal and unprovoked as those carried out by the Hitlerite regime in Germany more than 60 years ago.

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Did the US president's handlers believe that the international diplomats, foreign ministers and heads of state assembled in his audience in the UN building in New York are so gullible that they don't even read the newspapers?

In reality, his speech was not written for them. Rather, his words were addressed over their head's to his political base among the extreme right-wingers and semi-fascists who dominate the Republican Party. He was promising them that there will be no turning back from global militarism and plunder. The US agenda of seizing by force the oilfields in Iraq and a strategic stranglehold over the Middle East remains in force.

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"Semi-fascists" my ass...Full-blown Fascists is a better description and they should all be dangling from the end of a rope.

[im4edwards]

1. looks like Germany is ready to kiss and make up

still has to be some pouting and wooing but they realize that its time to get on board for their own benefit.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/09/24/sprj.irq.schroeder.bush/index.html

[G_j]

2. are you saying they were bribed

threatened or both?

[BeFree]

3. What he said was...

The US owns Iraq. Lock, stock, and barrel. If ya'll don't watch what you do, you may be next. The Emperor has spoken. PNAC will be enforced.