Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
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| [q But then again at least until now, killing scores of civillians from the skies is not yet considered a great way to win elections - unlike in Israel. But then, so far, we haven't been conditioned from birth to hate Arabs. |
I believe both Bush and Blair were RE-elected during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...and that was after and during while American and British warplanes were killing scores of civilians from the skies.
True they may not have been conditioned to hate Arabs from birth...so what's their excuse? |
I was absolutely appalled when Americans voted in Bush after all he had done.
In the case of Blair, it's not really the same thing. We kind of understand that both major parties would have felt pressured into joining the war (if US declared war on anywhere, we'd be under great pressure to join them, due to our strange alliance) and I think it only came out later exactly just how sycophantic Blair had been. I can't remember when it was discovered the great extent that he gone to make the case for war - including fabricating nonsense. I can't remember if that was before or after his next election, because by the time that became huge news, I already known a long time that he was deeply complicit - but those who get their news from mainstream outlets wouldn't have.
I also know that a lot of lifelong supporters of Labour were very angry about the war, right from the beginning. The problem is, there is no other leftwing party, apart from the lib dems (who are unlikely to get a majority anyway) and so they felt forced to continue to voteLabour. The alternative was worse. But Blair is widely despised for his part in it. |
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