Re: For weenie rightists and leftists



I am sorry but you mix the emotions of the offended true believer in democracy with the elementary logic, facts and common sense. Sure, everything is better in the USA then elsewhere, so is the brainwashing and the ministry of truth. BTW, Bush will be lower in my eyes if he didn't use the opportunity of taking Iraq as a (semi)colony; my car needs gas, too, and the Islamic threat should not be misunderestimated. But not in the the way it was implemented!

VLV



Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

On Oct 27, 8:20 pm, Vladimir Vassilevsky <antispam_bo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Oct 25, 8:51 am, Vladimir Vassilevsky <antispam_bo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


I have to disagree here. The events of this scale don't happen
sporadically; they are always preceded by negotiations. I am pretty sure
that, for example, the 9/11 was preceded by some sort of talks with
Osama where they didn't reach the conclusion. As for Iraq, that was a
desperate attempt to prevent the imminent crisis and solve the energy
problem. Idiots and madmen do exist, of course; however they can't go
that far. Every book on PR teaches: always explain any action by the
noble reasons.


I think we sometimes give our leaders too much credit. By this, I mean
that we attribute to them abilities and tendencies that they simply do
not possess:

1. Napolean arrived at island, was replaced by look-a-like, then
sailed off with beautiful French woman while he regathered his
thoughts.

2. Hitler did not die - his death was faked. He lived the rest of his
life in solitude in Switzerland in the mountains, skiing and eating
bratwurst.

3. Neither Fidel Castro nor Kim Jong-Il are ill (pun intended). They
are both faking it to throw off the CIA.

4. Monica Lewinksy was bribed by the tobacco industry 1 month before
scandal became public to get Clinton to employ certain products
creatively as a way of increasing sales. Executives bought stock and
made a fortune.

See? The imagination allows any conceivable conspiracy, most of which
are simply not true. When one looks at a president, a human being,
one should ask, "What is its nature? What motivates it?" Bush has been
thorougly unbashful about his nature, about what motivates him. That
which comes out of his mouth, and his father's mouth, is far more
plausible than any conspiracy that I have heard so far.

I think one of the primary reasons that people (not you) come up with
these conspiracy theories is because the alternative is really hard to
swallow - if there are no conspiracies, if Bush is not ultra-cunning,
scheming, shrewd international savant, but just another guy from Texas
who likes the idea of promoting democracy and commerce where ever he
can, that would mean that we, the people who got duped by him, are
stupid, and no one likes to think of himself/herself as stupid, so we
come up with these wild conspiract theories.

What does puzzle me is people like Colin Powell. He's not stupid. But
if you watched his public behavior closely, it appeared that he really
did believe that there were WMD's. Maybe it is more difficult to see
truth from position of immersion. I, however, knew long before seeing
that pathetic "weapon of mass destruction" miniature aircraft that
Iraq did not have any WMD's. As I said, Bush is quite transparent in
what motivates him. That also explains why the USA was perplexed that
Sadaam Hussein was executed. I think that they had not planned to let
it go that far. If this is all true, imagine how Hussein must have
felt at the gallows...being aware that he was about to be executed as
a victim of a foreign political agenda, by an invading entity that, if
given the opportunity, would probably have spared his life.


How about assigning the weight in the voting to the each person in the
proportion with the amount of taxes payed?


That does put poles in right half of plane, but it's a bit complex to
track. I like a flat transaction tax because it's simple.

-Le Chaud Lapin-
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