4 posts tagged “bush”
One of the things I like about summer:
Mi trovis la suban ŝercon pri la Usona prezidanto, George W Bush (Ĝorĝ Dablju Buŝ), ĉi tie.
Prezidanto Bush decidis lerni Esperanton
Prezidanto Bush decidis lerni Esperanton. Rice demandas lin: „Kial precipe Esperanton, vi ja apenaǔ scipovas la anglan kaj hispanan?“ – „Nu mi vidis, ke ankoraǔ neniam usona ŝtatestro vizitis Esperantion kaj tial mi tion volas tuj fari kaj nature volas saluti la homojn tie en sia lingvo.“ (dmw 2006-05-29)
The North Korean nuclear test will be a test of a different kind - for American ruler George Bush.
Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq because he believed the country to possess "weapons of mass destruction".
Now, more than three years later, Iraq is still occupied and in a mess, to say the least. And still the weapons have failed to materialise.
North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, on the other hand, are not phantom ones. They are real. And the North Korean government appears to be rattling its sabres. Remember its missile tests in July?
So what will George Bush do?
My prediction is he will do nothing - apart from protest and tell the world what bad people North Korea's leaders are.
North Korea, you see, has nothing that George Bush wants. The Americans already have allies in the Far East and if they are involved in any war in the region they have places from which to launch strikes. So they don't need North Korea for that.
North Korea is also not rich in natural resources (like oil). In fact, the economy has been pretty dead since the 1970s, with a huge chunk of the GDP spent on military resources.
The problem is this - if George Bush does not take action against North Korea, it will raise the question: why Iraq and not North Korea?
But will his citizens even ask?
Does anyone else find at least a little sinister the CIA's secret detention of 14 suspected terrorists for years in undisclosed locations around the world?
The New York Times reports: "The announcement, in the East Room of the White House, was the first time the president had discussed the secret C.I.A. program, and he made clear he had fully authorized it. Mr. Bush defended the treatment the suspects had received, but would not say where the so-called 'high-value terrorist detainees' had been held or the techniques used to extract information from them."
Now don't get me wrong. I am totally opposed to terrorism. I hate it. We saw enough of it in our own country where cowards bombed civilians, including children. But notice that these people, held without trial, are suspects. They have not been proved to be guilty of anything.
Imagine the uproar if intelligence organisations elsewhere had to detain US citizens the way America detains non-Americans! Human rights? It seems that Bush regards only Americans as human. The rest of us can go to hell.
