Because of all you’ve done, even China, no slouch at violating human rights, feels free to tar the United States for your administration’s gross lapses in Basic Morality 101:
“Relying on its strong military power, the United States has trespassed on the sovereignty of other countries and violated human rights in other countries,” said a report by the State Council, China’s cabinet.
The report used details from Western media and academic sources to support its accusations, quoting one estimate that up 655,000 Iraqis have died in Iraq since in March 2003.
“The United States has a flagrant record of violating the Geneva Convention in systematically abusing prisoners during the Iraqi War and the War in Afghanistan,” it said. […]
“The United States has lorded it over other countries by condemning other countries’ human rights practices while ignoring its own problems, which exposes its double standard and hegemonism on the human rights issue,” China said.
So, what would you like to thank Mr. Bush for?
I would like to thank George for militarizing my back yard. According to his Border Patrol Chief here: “We are heading in the right direction”
Yup, they sure are.
I’d rather not thank George W. Bush. How ’bout I offer up a cool old vid of Rev. Gary Davis playing some ol’ time Country Blues?
If you were listening to shortwave radio during the 60s and 70s like I was — especially to Radio Havana Cuba and feeds that were meant for audiences outside the United States, like the USSR’s Radio Peace and Progress — you got to hear about American double standards, how we talked the talk but didn’t walk the walk.
At the time I dismissed it by changing the channel and saying, “You can only hear yourself called an imperialist so many times.” Of course in those days there was an element of truth to it, and that element has only grown in the last 30 or 40 years.
Just because we think their ideology is crap doesn’t mean they aren’t, in some measure, right.
Thanks to Bush for every single time I get harassed or hectored by someone when I’m abroad, even if it’s indirectly angled towards me.
“Ironically” every single country I’ve EVER been to seems to have hosted Clinton at least once and I’ve heard only good words from the people who lived there. I was in Bucharest in 2005 when Clinton came to sign his book and it was nothing but a lovefest.
Pax
Yupyup. What I’ve gotten is “Don’t worry, ‘¡Fuera Yanqui!’ doesn’t mean you personally, you’re nice and welcome any time, but isn’t there ANYTHING you people can DO about that guy?”