I see Quentin's posts getting a lot of heat. I thought, why not give him a little break and take some of that heat myself? So, upon thinking that, I decided to post some good things about good ol' President Bush. Yeah, most of you are probably wonder: This guy is Indian, why does he care about Bush and American politics?? Well, firstly, I could ask
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1) We're still at a net job loss of about 3 million jobs under Bush. Sure, we've gained a million jobs in the last few months, but there's still a net job LOSS under Bush despite the growing number of people needing to be employed every year (because of growing population). Job creation is still a loooong way from where it needs to be to be stable.
2) Saddam used WMD that the US gave him, not against "his own people" but against Kurdish rebels in the north who wanted to secede from Iraq. Yeah, gassing people is still helluv wrong, but if it's THAT bad how come we were selling those weapons to other people? The radical Kurds in Iraq were just like the radical Palestinians in Israel - all they want to do is split off a large part of the country to turn into their homeland and they'll violently oppose anyone who tries to stop them. As far as the tourture stuff, that's par for the course in the Middle East. Dictatorships we support, like the Saudis, regularly engage in state-sponsored beheadings and tourture ( ... )
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I'll think about that.
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