I am a great supporter of strong opposition parties for good opposition parties keep governments on their toes.
The Republican party in the
At first these attacks came under the guise that they were opposed to his programme for health care reform, but when one sees the placards that are displayed at the staged demonstrations, the vitriol comes blazing through and the demonstrations are exposed for what they are.
Even when the citizens of the
Actually I find it quite hilarious that their hatred of Obama has even led them to end up in bed with the Taliban since the announcement that Obama has been awarded the prestigious Nobel peace prize. For according to the reports, both the Taliban and the republicans have violently condemned his selection!
Maybe to be fair to them, the Republicans cannot see what Obama has done for world peace for as they say "nearer to church further from God". The fact is however, the rest of the peace loving world was glad to see the departure of the warlord Bush and his entourage, for as long as they remained, armed conflict anywhere and everywhere, was only a step away. We need only be reminded that
Neither should we ever forget the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including women and children who have been killed or displaced because of Bush's senseless incursion into
Yes the
The election of Barack Obama with the promise of ending the current wars quickly and dealing with other troublesome matters using diplomacy rather than weapons of mass destruction, has therefore been met around the world with a huge sigh of relief, a sigh of relief that has obviously been heard by the committee awarding the Peace Prize.
Obama is therefore more than deserving of this great award as every human being except Republican war mongers, prefer peaceful negotiations to cowboy style destructive tactics..
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Joan, I fully agree with your sentiments about the dutty Republican behaviour, but I wish to make the following points.
1. Before the Olympic committee’s decision, it was broadcast in the USA’s national news that many Chicagoans did not want the Olympics in their town.
2. Wars seen as just are a sure way of rallying the country behind the (political) leader. Witness Margaret Thatcher, a text-book politician, who easily won a third election called during the Falklands war despite riots against her just before it when she introduced the poll tax. She went swiftly to war and warned the Argentinians that the British will not hesitate to shoot first. The first shot of the engagement was authorised by Mrs Thatcher and came from British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror which sank the Argentine General Belgrano killing 323 troops while still in Argentinean waters. The General Belgrano is the only ship ever to be sunk by a nuclear-powered submarine.
Bush’s problem is that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq dragged out and became wearysome and dubious but he was unable to pull out because of the power-vacuum that would be left for opportunist warlords.
True, but Bush invariably chose war over diplomacy.
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