When you refuse to do away with cluster bombs and land mines, refuse to support the International Criminal Court, block calls for a cease fire in the UN Security Council, and launch preemptive wars based on lies, you thoroughly deserve the condemnation that follows.
]]>By a vote of 180 in favour to 1 against (United States) and no abstentions, the Committee also approved a resolution on the right to food, by which the Assembly would “consider it intolerable” that more than 6 million children still died every year from hunger-related illness before their fifth birthday, and that the number of undernourished people had grown to about 923 million worldwide, at the same time that the planet could produce enough food to feed 12 billion people, or twice the world’s present population. (See Annex III.)
The Bush administration, speaking for the U.S.A., therefore must consider it tolerable that 6 million children die every day – children who could be fed if we weren’t wasting billions on stealth fighters, littoral combat boondoggles and non-effective defense against non-existant ballistic missiles from Iran.
Even some of the most rabid Nations voted for the resolution, with the USA the sole naysayer. I would never have believed that even possible a decade ago. Essentially, the USA now stands for everything bad and immoral, and against anything even remotely good or moral.
]]>The actions of the Hedgemony have destroyed good will that took decades to amass, and the only way we can return to the community of nations as a good citizen is to start acting like an adult. Giving unqualified support to the destructive activities of Israel will soon be a price too high to pay.
]]>– Badtux the Cleansing Penguin
]]>I really don’t get it – the Shrubbery has a 29% approval rating and only 30% of Americans think we should back Israel in this, but any one from the 70% who complains is called names. I keep wondering when in hell the majority viewpoint in this country is going to get a little respect and air time, so the rest of the world stops thinking we’re all militaristic crazies.
BTW, few among the 70% back Hamas. What the majority think is that it is none of our damn business, and we have problems of our own to deal with.
What I can’t get across to people is that what Israel is doing is an existential threat to the country, the way the Palestinians can never be. In farming terms, they are killing their prime breeding stock in these military adventures. The way things are going the Jews will be in the minority in Israel based solely on birth rates. They really need to make love not war if they want a Jewish state.
]]>And point taken. The supreme arrogance, paranoia and impatience of the Likud controlling the dumbest bunch of crooked puppets on two legs. Yup! A real recipe for disaster all around. 🙂
]]>Iraq is what you get when you try to “build” a nation and government with Republican “core values”. The Shrubbery has definitely not done any nation building.
Badtux, the jobs and assistance in NYC under Tammany only went to supporters, just like Palestine under Fatah. Disagreeing with either machine normally resulted in injury or death with little note taken in the local media, also controlled by the parties, although I admit, Tammany had a better PR operation and were generally more intelligent in their corruption.
My comment moderation hates you, again, Kryten. I wish I could divine what the problem is.
I personally believe that failure on this scale requires the combined lack of intelligence of the Likud and Hedgemony brain deficits. I doubt that either is capable of this nadir of competence on their own. It’s probably another application of the inverse square law regarding success and hubris.
]]>People there still don’t seem to have woken up to the… *possibility*… that Bush only invaded Iraq on behalf of Israel. I still have the photo of Bush wearing a yarmulke praying at the wailing wall just before the announcement to invade happened.
My Jewish Israeli friend told me some time ago that many in Israel called G.W. Bush ‘Marranos’ (Jews who pretend to be Christians in their community but secretly hold to their Jewish faith and race when among their own kind). There are also questions about Dick Cheney’s *faith*. Indeed, the name Cheney comes from old Yiddish, ‘Khayney’ or ‘ankles’. The Khayney clan grew up in the Jewish ghetto in Stockholm, which they ruled with an iron fist, but they tried to assimilate with the Christians before emigrating to the USA and using the English form of the name. But… what do I know. 🙂 Well, I know I’d never be stupid enough to trust a self-professed Christian wearing a Jewish yarmulke and praying with Jews at the wailing wall. Or a Jew that pretends to be Christian. 😉 Not that I trust any *religion* in any case. 😉 LOL
Names are funny things really. 😉 I’m told, for example, that the name ‘Rumsfeld’ has it’s roots in the Yiddish ‘fendl’ or ‘saucepan’ while the ‘rums’ comes from ‘krum’ or ‘crooked.’ Hmmmm. ‘Crooked Saucepan’! Dunno if it’s true, but it sure sounds appropriate. LOL
And for some further amusement with names… 🙂
Israel – Jewish Calendar
Hey… Did you know that Usama bin Laden (as the CIA still refers to him) code name whilst working for the CIA as a covert operative in Afghanistan (while the Russians tried doing what the USA is trying to do) was ‘Tim Ossman’? What does that mean, or matter? Nothing, probably. 🙂
Ahem. 😉 I’m just having some fun, right? 🙂 Know nothing, me.
Actually Bryan, I’d say it’s another typical Israel failure rather than blaming the Hedgemony puppets. 🙂
Oh, dear. Does this still make me anti-Semitic? 😉 LOL
]]>Fatah… bah. Morons. More interested in looting than in providing basic public services. Barbarians. Reminds me of a scene from Lawrence of Arabia. You probably know the one I’m talking about.
The only way that Hamas is going to get pushed out of office in an election is if someone else comes forward to provide the services Hamas currently provides. But Israel would rather bomb the Palestinians than provide those services. And the U.S. would rather provide bombs to Israel than provide those services. So it goes. Barbarians. Bah.
– Badtux the Civilized Penguin
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