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kaela
American Rhetoric
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I just finished watching Bush's address to America, more like ultimatum to the rest of the world because quite frankly we all know it will be covered by international media. I can't help be but dismayed and sickened by how much the American government is, if anything, setting back it's own people. Maybe it's living in the shadow of an elephant all my life or just general cynicism of America that I have been brought up with, but will that country ever allow any progress? It still instills strong religious values and practices, and though some concepts may be ideal in their own ways, didn't we seperate church and the state in teh 15th Century due to corruption? The United States still fails to recognize the modernity of the world and it's people. It still segrigates and cause general and nasty biases.
As I slowly learn how American policies are distroying the world I can only help but be skeptical, and I apologize to anyone whom I may offend with this rant. I still don't see how the Bush admistration manages to stil get away with this so-called war of terrorism while it only inflicts pain on it's own people and unrest amongst the coutries it invades. It made the UN powerless, an peaceful international governing body POWERLESS. Now the American public is left with paying for the mess Bush created and turn a record surplus into a record deficit.
In the recent Adbusters it goes on to say how it's own media, with strong emphasis on Fox News, broadcasts the wrong facts. CNN has been bought out by the Bush Administration and is no longer a repuitable source of information. It has a shread of dignity left. It's tabloidish in a way. It leaves the American people misinformed and continually instilled with fear.
I could go on about the Canadian government, especially the sheep in wolf's clothing that is Mr. Paul Martin, but let me leave that for another day of frustration. I just wish that this coutry would grow its balls back and not be whipped around by America so much, or in a perfect world not at all.
Still, I can't comprehend how the U.S. manages to be such a maga power in the world when it's only setting itself up for self-distruction. Just please, do not take my country down with you.
P.S. Thank to BBC World News for the photo, though I highly doubt they know I'm using it.
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| January 20, 2004 | 11:24 PM |
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where are the american people?
i wonder like you do when the american people will - enough of them - will see through the murky haze that envelops them and realise that the Bush Administration, the military-industrial complex, and, typically, most governments have NO interest in what is best for the American people and nation ... and do something about it!
it is always interesting to me how the US of A captures the best and worst of everything and how the best and most informed minds and critics of American Imperialism are americans themselves ...
as concerned global citizens we must build links with our american colleagues to support them in changing and renewing their country from within ... its the only way i think!
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