Believe it or not, this is a factual rendering of a conspiracy theory that's believed by many people. These people could be your neighbors.
These people could be living in Florida planning to blow up the Sears tower.
These people could be editors of the NY Times, the LA Times or the Wall Street Journal.
These people could be living next to you.
America has a mental health problem.
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Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy
Why are we in Iraq? First we were told it was because Saddam had WMD and we could expect mushroom clouds over American cities if he were allowed to stay in power; then the goal was getting rid of a brutal dictator who gassed his own people and by the way has a "blood feud" with America; the latest rationale is that we are bringing democracy to a troubled part of the world.
The rad-con democracy domino theory is that Iraq will become a shining example of representative democracy in the Middle East that all its neighbors will desire to emulate. Yet, despite a couple of elections; this utopia seems further away than ever.
Meanwhile, back here in the USA, the Bush administration is quietly choking off funding to the primary organizations that are actually training Iraqis on how to set up and run democratic political parties, elections, and governments. Is this hypocrisy?
"The commitment to what the president of the United States will say every single day of the week is his number one priority in Iraq, when it's translated into action, looks very tiny," said Les Campbell, who runs programs in the Middle East for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, known as NDI.(see link to story in title) Apparently, there has been no response to these reports from the White House.
It appears that military and security spending is cutting back the only legitimate pro-democracy efforts America is conducting in Iraq. This is just the latest example of the Bush administration's failure to put the money where its mouth is. If we really want to know what politicians value, we need to find out what programs they fund and which they cut.
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posted by REB 84 at 4/06/2006
reb 84,
Perhaps in your world there can only be one motive for a particlar act. In mine, we can do something for several reasons: making sure that a brutal dictator does not pass WMDs to his allies, removing said bloody dictator, and bringing democracy to a part of the world that is a festering cauldron of hatred of everyone who does not worhip Allah. But if you want to set up straw men so that you can knock them down, be my guest. But don't insult my intelligence.
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