Reading about Bush is perhaps one of the most infuriating things one can do. First of all, on his website he has a dramatic paragraph about how he is a "compassionate conservative", and he follows environmental policy and holds an inborn love of preservation. If this is so, why did he refuse to sign the Kyoto Protocol, signed by 37 other industrialized countries? (wouldn't have anything to do with those corporate friends who wouldn't enjoy having to worry about air standards, would it?) Why did he abandon his campaign pledge to donate 100$ Million to rainforest preservation yearly? Why the hell is he allowing nuclear power plants to triple the amount of highly toxic mercury they release into the environment? Yeah, he can make all the emotional speeches he wants, but as he passes bills at strategic times such as Friday afternoons when the press is busy elsewhere, he undermines all the visionary words he utters regarding his love of nature. He did reinstate Arsenic levels in drinking water and cut diesel exhaust, but THATS IT. He has opened up national parks for logging and mining, appointed anti-environmentalists as EPA leaders, used EPA money to create ad campaigns, erased the deadline to decrease car fumes, forgotten his other campaign promise to regulate nuclear power plant emmisions, and allowed snowmobiles in national parks. He must adore nature. Imagine...being in the depths of the forests of Yellowstone, enjoying the peace, watching the snow trickle through the naked branches...and VROOOOMMM an exhaust-spewing noisy snowmobile tears down the hill and scares away all the elk. Wow, it's nice getting back to nature.
I am so glad all those people in Iraq have been freed. Bush is such a good guy for worrying about people other than ourselves. I hope they're enjoying their freedom...I mean, death must be wonderful after all those years of Saddam. There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people - Howard Zinn. What a decent guy. Never mind the dictators we Americans reinstated, that Pinochet guy in Chile...no one knows about him anyways. Or cares to hear about how beautiful America staged a coup to kill the elected leader and set up dictator Pinochet. But those Iraqis... I mean, sure the atrocities commited by Saddam happened fifteen years ago and no one ever mentioned anything. So what that Bush had ties with him in the oil industry. So what if Dick Cheney was CEO of Haliburton industries. We are talking about freedom, and what better way to free them than go kill all of them? we surely are the heroes. Lets see...We went in there because Iraq was instable...well look at it now. We are the liberators of the world!!! Being American means having the right to impose our will upon every other nation!!! What? Weapons of Mass Destruction? Shut up! He was a bad person. If the reason was just to invade Iraq why did we invent the weapons story? Shut up! You are unamerican! You wanna know what un-american is? America is supposed to be the land of freedom, where we can speak our mind and rise up against injust rulers. So how come bands are being censored because of their political views? (dixie chicks) That is the most unamerican thing, ever. So since the Bush has done the world a favor and shown them how self-serving we really are, and they can freely hate us now, being American is not speaking up or speaking against? That is what America was founded on. NOT blindly following, wrapping ourselves in a flag of blood and self-rightousness. Yeah Bush is a good guy...I mean even though he hasn't gone to one of the soldiers who have died in Iraqs funeral, at least he went over there on Thanksgiving. Wait...he screened the soldiers he would serve and photo based on their political affiliation.... And....Shoot....The turkey was a prop. Well it's the thought that counts, right?
