Bushspeak: Dark And Garbled Words

[struggle4progress]

Monday, 31 October 2005, 12:49 pm
Opinion: John Chuckman

<snip> "The radicals exploit local conflicts to build a culture of victimization, in which someone else is always to blame and violence is always the solution."

I can't imagine words that better describe America's reaction to 9/11. About twenty people committed a terrible crime. Instead of going about the business of identifying and trying any others who were responsible, Bush launched two wars he promises to continue for years to come. <snip>

"The hatred of the radicals existed before Iraq was an issue, and it will exist after Iraq is no longer an excuse. The government of Russia did not support Operation Iraqi Freedom, and yet the militants killed more than 180 Russian schoolchildren in Beslan."

Bush's cynicism and dishonesty here are off the meter. The Russians have carried on for years a hideous war against Chechen independence. Journalists from Europe have reported almost indescribable horrors. The Chechens are desperate for vengeance against so powerful and ruthless an opponent. People who have experienced the treatment they have experienced are indeed capable of almost anything. Were Russia still the old Soviet Union, Bush would be sending weapons and encouragement to Chechnya. <snip>

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0510/S00325.htm

[Alcibiades]

1. Good points

Although those Chechen "freedom fighters" are not exactly hapless victims of the Russians. Strapping bombs to war widows and kidnapping children is dirty pool.