lundi 8 mars 2010
True democrats.
So the Irakis despite bombs and death treaths voted at the 60%+ level. We are lucky when we have 50% of registered voters exercizing their right, and all we have to do is go to a nearby voting booth. What a lesson those guys are teaching us. Maybe they deserve democracy more than we do.
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Unimagenable! WE vote when we please here too.
RépondreSupprimerOne thousand Iraqi Americans voted right here in Pleasanton, CA at the fairgrounds. All of those interviewed on radio felt that Iraq was better off now, as a fledgling democracy, than it was under Saddam Hussein.
RépondreSupprimerWe have all become either too complacent or too cynical when it comes to politics. We take our democratic ways for granted and that is not good. We should wake up to the real danger of some maverick and charismatic leader springing up and grabbing power. In both our countries we have checks and balances but nothing is 100% foolproof and we have to keep our guard up.
RépondreSupprimerAs for Iraq being a better place without Saddam, well maybe depends when the last booby trap exploded and how far from you. All in all I guess Irakis are freer. What bugs me though is the way his removal was achieved and how devious our leaders were going about it; all the lies and the disinformation to blind us to the fact that they were inventing reasons to secure their petrol holdings.
In Italy the percentage of voters is weirdly much higher than in Canada or the US.
RépondreSupprimerWe should wake up to the real danger of some maverick and charismatic leader springing up and grabbing power.
That is true. These dangerous people are mostly helped by indifference, laziness or cowardice. We vote en masse but we dont have much courage or in any case, and most of all, we are 'menefreghisti' (= thus are called those affected by menefreghismo, sort of a couldn't-care-less attitude). There must be something similar in French, I am sure:
s'en ficheisme? ou bien s'en fouxxxreism? - don't know if it is a taboo word ...you know, my repute, already so ill here :-)
Mor, the word is : je-m'en-foutisme or laisser-aller.
RépondreSupprimerLo sapevo. Bella espressione. Mi piace and, I was sure of that but it is us that have followed you this time, not our fault I mean this time lol
RépondreSupprimerBene carissimo, i in pace.
RépondreSupprimerHm.
RépondreSupprimerWhen does Bush get any credit? I mean, this doesn't happen if the Americans don't invade and spend themselves into oblivion, right?
Just saying.
Some time, dear Commish as the other guy calls you, evil can produce desirable results. All I said was that we were all decieved by liars who happened to get some results they may not have fully expected but found convenient to put forth.
RépondreSupprimerOtherwise, why the same Bush and other pesidents, including Obama, did not do the same in Burma and other dictatorships just as evil if not more than Saddam? Maybe they have too little or no oil?
Are we getting oil from Iraq?
RépondreSupprimerCan't argue with that position much.
RépondreSupprimerCheri, yes the USofA not only gets oil from Iraq, Haliburton owns most of it.
RépondreSupprimerCheri and Commentator, your comments from the 10 and 11 were not in at 1700 hour. I answered as soon as I saw them. The delay is on Blogspot.
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