Guardian Tries to Influence US Election
Apparently the UK paper The Guardian was trying to promote a Kerry win. Some of the reactions by upset Americans are funny, and also somewhat ironic given the US approach of "regime change."
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yes how evil the US is to over throw dictatorships. ha ha, now the tables are turned and free market libertarian britain is trying to overturn the US dictatorship
Published: October 21, 2004 10:32 AM
It occurred to me that the meddling of the U.S. in foreign affairs to the extent of nation building creates a state of control without representation. Shouldn't Iraqis and Afghanis be holding a referendum on how well George Bush has been managing Iraq and Afghanistan?
One day we will leave behind either a socialist democracy (as we have in the Philippines, Germany, Bosnia, Japan, South Korea, Afghanistan ....) and a military base or, if we fail to win over the hearts of the surviving Iraqis, we will leave a militant theocracy (Palestin, Iran, ...) in our wake, but I am quite sure that we will also leave behind our military bases.
Published: October 21, 2004 6:43 PM
Who wins the election in the States will affect the direction of the rest of the world nearly as much as it will affect Americans. Wherever the States goes, everybody else is dragged along in their wake to some extent. If the US returned to its former isolationist foreign policy and stopped putting up unfair, anti-competitive barriers to world trade and meddling in world affairs, then sure, the rest of the world shouldn't have a voice. And they wouldn't, because they wouldn't care. The outcome wouldn't matter to them. But when Dubya aggressively and without provocation attacks a sovereign state based on deceptive, malicious, and unproven reasons with no evidence to back them up and then pressures the rest of the world to join him or suffer the economic consequences of their "betrayal", it's not just American boys dying out there anymore. The Brits lost their people too. So did the Canadians (in one case in Afghanistan, American planes dropped bombs on Canadian soldiers, killing them - and then Americans complained and boycotted their goods because the "cowards" didn't go to Iraq - WTF?).
By writing letters and trying to help Kerry win, the Brits are protecting what they view as their interests (and their lives), since their leader is in Bush's pocket and will certainly be taking part in more Bush invasions as requested.
The Nov2 election is rigged. Bush will get back in -- his relatives own Diebold (the voting machine company) and they have PROMISED they would help Bush win "however they could". This will ensure that the rest of the world will suffer economically for four more years as America plunges into more wars for oil and to install more American puppet governments so America will control the dwindling oil supply before China gets in there and does the same. Bush has no agenda except oil wars. His policies are all virtually nonexistent -- except his war policies. Bush doesn't even focus on anything except his Imperialist foreign policy anymore. He's laissez-faire at home because that takes the least effort. He's got to focus on oil and military expansion.
If America would mind its own business, so would everybody else. But if Ameria is sticking its fingers in everybody else's business, expect them to stick back. Letter writing is the least of our worries. If someone was invading your home, wouldn't you fight back? And if they were too strong to defeat outright, wouldn't you sneak off and attack later as guerrillas? What do you think is happening overseas? Which is why Mises and Rothbard are more important than ever. I don't WANT China sticking back with their three hundred million man army. I don't WANT freedom fighters (sorry, Al Qaeda's not on our payroll anymore, so we now call them terrorists) sticking back. But they will, because the oil industry makes too much money for the Bushes and their Saudi buddies for America to stop their plans now.
And as long as we are international aggressors, I think we can expect resistance. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. Just hope you're not one of them.
Published: October 23, 2004 12:09 PM