Your say: Is Bush a terrorist?

[emad]

How do you think history will remember George W? Is he a messiah or a terrorist?


January 10, 2006


When he sings 'I must declare, my heart is there though I've been from Maine to Mexico', you can be sure Calypso music legend Harry Belafonte is not talking about anywhere in the United States.

In Venezuela on Monday, the iconic singer-turned-activist called American President George W Bush the 'greatest terrorist'.

Belafonte -- a close friend of the late Dr Martin Luther King -- is not the only one who holds George 'Dubya' responsible for a lot that is wrong with the world. It would not be an exaggeration to say no world leader has evoked as extreme reactions as the Texan has.

To many Bush is the saviour of America, the superhero who has dared to take on the hydra-headed monster of terrorism.

http://us.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/10bushm.htm?q=tp&file=.htm

[emad]

1. SO hard to second-guess what any DU response might be.....

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[sinkingfeeling]

2. I think he took over the title as the #1 terrorist in 2003.

[Neil Lisst]

3. It's not what I would have said in public, but ...

I am reminded of the Biblical tale where the children of Israel chanted "Saul has killed his thousands, but David has killed his ten thousands!"

Very few men alive today are responsible for the deaths of more innocent people than George W. Bush. If you're living anywhere but the USA, Bush has to look like a dangerous man with WMD who might use them against you.

Bush, Saddam - variations on the same pathetic megaglomania.

[Inland]

4. Amazing that the question even has to be asked. How low has US fallen. n

[julianer]

5. It's hard to say

I would never have thought that the terrorist Reagan would be seen as a demi-god.

[bluerum]

6. Messiah?! How about failed two bit, tin horn drunk dogcatcher? No

offense implied to dogcatchers in general. I love dogs.

The shrub totally effed up his "war on terra." Terrorism should be addressed, but shrub is an idiot and everything he touches turns to crap.

[notadmblnd]

7. serial killer

IMO, he doesn't care how people die. Whether it is being tortured, bombed starved or drowned, he seems to thrive on death and destruction.

[Punkingal]

8. I vote for narcissistic sociopath....

With no human feelings whatsoever. No conscience, no empathy, no understanding that the world doesn't revolve around him.

[emad]

9. Born again dry drunk psycho.

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[Orangepeel]

10. He's not a terrorist. He's a wannabe despot (n/t)

[rock]

11. Usually terrorists are anonymous

but other than that bush* is engaging in terroristic behaviour.

[FloridaPat]

12. The US is the biggest terrorist country in the world, has trained more

terrorists then probably all other countries combined, and when the records are finally written, we probably will have killed more people the Hitler and Stalin combined. But our own citizens are free!

[M155Y_A1CH]

13. He's certainly no messiah, but..

I hesitate to say the "T" word because I'm too frightened to speak out
at this time. They may be watching me already!

[Peace Patriot]

14. If a "terrorist" is someone who willfully kills innocent civilians,

in order to accomplish some other purpose, and if "greatest terrorist" means he who has killed the most innocent civilians to accomplish some other purpose, then Bush (and, not to leave out the puppetmasters), Cheney and Rumsfeld are in fact the greatest terrorists on earth. They slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis (100,000, according to the British doctors' report, in the initial bombings alone), and continue to kill and torture both "combatants" and non-combatants. They furthermore did it to a country and population that had virtually no defenses--no air force, no army to speak of (collapsed upon challenge), and no WMDs--a country and population that had been quite deliberately stripped of its defenses by ten years of sanctions and "no fly zone" bombings. A turkey shoot. A cowardly act. Easy enough to blow babies and grandmothers to smithereens when there is virtually nobody and nothing to stop you--for whatever "other purpose" you may have.

And, on the shifting landscape of Bush junta excuses for this slaughter--WMDs, 9/11, Saddam is a bad man, 9/11, "WMD-related program activities," 9/11, democracy, 9/11, "transforming the Middle East," 9/11--the good of the survivors of the slaughter (democracy?) comes in second to last, and the real purposes (oil, oil and oil--plus Donald Rumsfeld astride the world with big jack boots, and boffo war profiteering, beyond their wildest dreams) continue to be lied about.

But just because they lie about their "other purposes" doesn't mean they get to get away with claiming to be a legitimate world colossus with legitimate aims. All in all, I think they fit the definition of "terrorist" to a T. They just have a lot more firepower at their disposal than most "terrorists" do.

[killbotfactory]

15. 3,000 deaths is a national tragedy

30,000 is a statistic

[NoFederales]

16. Terrorism comes in many flavors: nationalities, creeds, ethnicity,

colors, etc. Bush is a goddamn fool, and many Americans find themselves so fucking exceptional, that to recognize Bush as a leader, a saviour, or a good man is all but meaningless. If you can believe in preemptive resource wars, then I believe history will deem you a barbarian. I would deem such folks misanthropes and unworthy of the resources that would sustain the lives of others.

NoFederales

[OneBlueSky]

17. Fallujah . . . 'nuff said . . . n/t

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