Here is another exposè of the double standards of the Bush regime. Is the American public waking up to the bs this clique of unelected fascists is putting it (and the world) through?
"Have the American people capitulated to the manufactured fear fabricated by Bush, Ashcroft and Ridge? …
Has our state of complacency turned our Democracy into a “Corpocrisy,” turned us as well into corporate robots to be used at will by those who buy our politicians? …
This administration assumed power; it did not receive the consent of the governed. Its actions have not secured the rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; rather its actions have fostered insecurity, restricted freedom, and cobbled the pursuit of happiness. …
What protection of American life has this pre-emptive invasion secured for our people? …
Rather than protecting American life, the administration imperils American life around the globe. …
The Arab world sat in disbelief as Mr. Bush went to the Security Council to demand that Iraq comply with UN resolutions, condemning its inaction against a nation that defies its resolutions while citing its irrelevance if it does nothing. The duplicity of the administration’s behavior was lost on America but not on the rest of the world, for they knew that the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the frightening power Israel wielded against its powerless foe had full American support. Still Bush went to the UN condemning Iraq. Iraq, Mr. Bush claimed, defied 16 UNSC resolutions; he did not mention that Israel continues to defy 69. Iraq, he bellowed with fingers crossed behind his back, has WMD including nuclear, biological and chemical, a clear threat to peaceful nations; he did not mention that Israel has nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and has threatened to use them. Iraq, he cried, has invaded its neighbor, Kuwait; he did not mention that Israel has occupied all but 22% of Palestinian land since 1967 and refuses to return that land despite numerous UN resolutions demanding that it do so. He pointed out that the UN has cited Saddam for human rights violations; he did not mention that the UN has cited Israel for such violations over and over since its founding in 1948. But Bush duplicity does not end there. He condemns Arafat for support of terrorist acts; he doesn’t condemn Sharon for hurling $300,000 missiles into crowded streets ostensibly to kill a person judged and condemned to death on Sharon’s say so without recourse to any legal process while 17 die and many others are wounded, actions that even Israeli pilots have condemned. He praises Israel as a democratic nation, the only one in the mid-east; but he refuses to recognize the duly elected President of the PLO who garnered more support from his people than the “elected” Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, did from his. He demands that Iraq draw up a constitution before it receives full independence, yet Israel has had 50 years to draw up a constitution and has not done so, but continues to be proclaimed a democracy. He won’t allow Iraq to have general elections fearing that the ****e majority might win and design a theocratic form of government, yet he says nothing about Israel and its Jewish citizenry that denies equal citizenship to non-Jews. While the world, through its UN representatives, drew up a resolution condemning the Israeli government’s statements that it would force Arafat out of Palestine or assassinate him, actions decidedly opposed to democratic principles, Bush chided the UN for one-sidedness. Bush calls upon the EU to freeze the assets of Hamas and condemn that organization as a terrorist front, but he did not ask the EU to recognize as terrorist supporters the right-wing Evangelical Zionist churches for providing millions of dollars to the terrorist settlers in occupied Palestine. This duplicity rouses anger, indeed, hatred against America, not only in the Arab world, but also in Europe and Asia. …
Condoleezza Rice called the creation of a democratic government in Iraq “the moral mission of our time.” Yet she speaks as an advisor to a government that manufactures policy out of politics, fabricates evidence from lies, conjures reason from duplicitous acts, extols freedom of speech as it maligns dissenters, lauds democracy as it illegally occupies a sovereign state, decries terrorism as it supports the most savage terrorist regime in the world, and she has the gall to overlook the need to create a democratic government in America! This regime, this Bush regime, has failed the American people. It is time we give our consent to those who govern us. Sitting passively is no longer an option.
http://www.iviews.com/articles/articles.asp?ref=CP0310-2122&p=2