Comments | fellow_traveler: Defend this, right wingers.

fellow_traveler

Defend this, right wingers.

Dec 19, 2005 19:56

"[Fallujah] grew from an unimportant town in 1947 to a pre-war population of about 350,000 inhabitants in 2003. The current population is unknown but estimated at less than 200,000."

We've cut the population of a city the size of St. Louis in half. One hundred and fifty thousand people whom George W. Bush says we are democratizing are now either ( Read more... )

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ataxi December 20 2005, 02:47:32 UTC

This interview that I read yesterday gives a fairly complete (and apparently relatively unbiased) expression of the current state of "regime change".

xamses December 20 2005, 03:47:02 UTC

FREEDOM! WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! DEMOCRACY!

cpxbrex December 20 2005, 04:31:01 UTC

Just a question . . . do any right-wingers actually READ your journal? Hehe.

fellow_traveler December 20 2005, 07:22:15 UTC

As far as I know, it's just the three of you, plus rockstarling.

androgy8 December 20 2005, 08:53:39 UTC

It's quite simple really: if they live over there, they're bad. Because they probably know a terrorist or has a brother who has a cousin who is friends with someone who has a relative with questionable terrorist ties. Knowing someone who knows someone who knows someone...who is a terrorist, means that that person is a risk and the world will be safer without he or she in it. Besides, they live over there. There isn't here. The US is good. Over there is bad. Did you get the memo about lives over there being less valuable than lives over here, in Bushland at least?

And here you've gone and made everything complicated.

(Hopefully the satire is easily read here. Our current administration, though, seems to be expert at propaganda and playing into fears. Otherwise G Bush wouldn't have been re-elected. So apparently a good portion of the country believes in Bush's rhetoric. Scary.)