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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Put another way, if Al Qaeda was really a threat to western civilization, the Afghan-Pakistan border would have been carpet-bombed by now. There would not be a village within 50 miles.
Bush is all about double-speak. He calls it a grave threat to our existence, but he doesn't act like it is.
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Perhaps the clearest way Bush is a hypocrit is that Egypt and Saudi Arabia, two of the most blatantly anti-democratic, barbarous, anti-human rights and corrupt regimes in modern times, are our staunchest allies in the Middle East. The terrorist groups are rooted in revolutionary movements against these spectacularly corrupt, totalitarian regimes.
I'm not saying we should do anything about Egypt or Saudi Arabia, or reject their friendship. We have no choice. But Bush's windbaggery about establishing "freedom" and "democracy" in the Middle East being our motivation for invading Iraq is pure medacity, and obviously so.
I'll never forgive Hitchins for selling out to the Bushies. I don't like the Nation but I think it's funny they excomunicated him.