George, George, George
George was quoted on the cover of the New York Times today (Wednesday, September 20, 2006 issue,) saying, "The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism, and fuel extremism, and pursue nuclear weapons."
No, this wasn't a confession, folks. Actually, he was talking to the Iranian people at the United Nations yesterday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later accused George, and the US, of hypocrisy. He was also quoted as saying, "Excellencies, the question needs to be asked, if the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the organs of the U.N. can take them to account?".
Who will hold this country accountable if, say, we were to go against the Geneva Convention? If we decided it's OK to hold prisoners, indefinetely, without trial? And by the way, how is it possible that the President of this country, the Land Of The Free, think that it's in any way alright to do this? A nation founded in the name of freedom, holding prisoners without trial, without bail, without hope of release. Sounds ridiculous, right?
Reading this passage at work today, I was reminded of a passage from the Declaration of Independence.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
For the full article concerning George and President Ahmadinejad at the UN, click the title header of this post.
No, this wasn't a confession, folks. Actually, he was talking to the Iranian people at the United Nations yesterday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later accused George, and the US, of hypocrisy. He was also quoted as saying, "Excellencies, the question needs to be asked, if the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security Council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the organs of the U.N. can take them to account?".
Who will hold this country accountable if, say, we were to go against the Geneva Convention? If we decided it's OK to hold prisoners, indefinetely, without trial? And by the way, how is it possible that the President of this country, the Land Of The Free, think that it's in any way alright to do this? A nation founded in the name of freedom, holding prisoners without trial, without bail, without hope of release. Sounds ridiculous, right?
Reading this passage at work today, I was reminded of a passage from the Declaration of Independence.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
For the full article concerning George and President Ahmadinejad at the UN, click the title header of this post.
posted by ET at 9/20/2006 04:27:00 PM
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