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[koon_taung_daeng]

I work for a phone tutor company and they are making kids read this hateful article on George bush.Is it just me or is this the most bull shit thing to make kids read? the author is an idiot who blames everything on bush, please read it and tell me what you think.








Whenever I see George Bush making a speech on TV, I can�t help but think how Mr. Bush is any different from Hitler or Stalin. Think about all the bombings, shootings and killings. His litany of destruction and contempt for life is truly staggering to consider. Bush is the closest thing to a dictator that America has ever seen. Immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia are consistently watched and monitored by goons working for the Bush administration. And believe it or not, the CIA has swept up innocent immigrants and deported them to U.S. administered dungeons throughout the world. Who says the American justice system should be a model of liberty throughout the world? Were you aware that it is now legal for U.S. courts to use evidence obtained from war prisoners through extreme coercion? What is extreme coercion? Simply put: torture. To me, this is madness. Some of the previous methods of torture employed by those working under Mr. Bush in U.S. prisons include: chaining prisoners in the fetal position for 24 hours without access to a toilet, sexual harassment, electric shock and inserting lit cigarettes into prisoners� ears, just to name a few
Mr. Bush not only treats the people of the world with contempt, but he also treats his own people the same way. Let�s think about what happened in New Orleans after the passage of Hurricane Katrina. Thousands of inner-city residents were left homeless with neither food nor water, sweltering under a hot sun for several days. Great job, George! Well, out of many wrong doings of Mr. Bush, his greatest crime was the illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. He told the world that Iraqis were a threat. But personally, I think that was only his sole opinion. What really bothers me is this. Before the invasion, Bush had the gall to tell the world that if Saddam Hussein chooses confrontation, his government will take every measure to avoid war. This was a big fat lie. He had his mind set on war even before 9/11, and was trying to figure out every excuse in the book to attack Iraq. He wanted a fight, and, by God, he got it.

Richard Nixon, a big crook in America�s presidential history, was pardoned by President Ford and never punished for his lying. William Clinton lied to the American people about having an affair with an intern in the White House. But look at him now. He couldn�t be more popular. But these crimes are chump change compared to the depredations of Mr. Bush. Will this dictator ever be punished? Maybe someday, but people of the world would agree that time won�t be anytime soon.

[oskinny1]

Probably not the time or place for such a discussion even if you agree with it. There are much better articles with a bit more critical thinking involved that could be used.

[spliff]

Politics have no place in the ESL classroom...neither does the King or God, I simply don't go there...And, whoever wrote that article is a complete moron!

[RACETRAITOR]

I wouldn't go so far as to call it anti-American, just anti-Bush. Still, no matter whether or not any of us agree with any parts of it, it is 100% inappropriate for teaching.

[mindmetoo]

Is that in house material?

[koon_taung_daeng]

its actually from this magazine called teen times i guess and the phone tutoring company i work for uses them, but like some others are saying POLITICS HAS NO PLACE IN THE CLASS ROOM especially when you have a korean idiot writing about something they obviously have no idea about, and then try to preach it to a bunch of kids,

[butlerian]

[butlerian]

[RACETRAITOR]

I don't think it was written by a Korean. It was either a Canadian or an American.

[riley]

While kids should start learning about government and the politics of their country, generally it takes a long time for them to do any critical thinking. This article doesn't challenge them nor does it help them to learn more about the world.

[caniff]

[Pligganease]

[mindmetoo]

What's sad is The Teen Times has managed to plagiarize its parent paper The Korea Times.

Consider this reader piece and this (I had to pull it up from google cache... if it vanishes, I put a copy here).

[seoulkitchen]

Yow! Good one MMT!
That plagiarism is astounding!

Dang, if yer gonna write your anti-bush/american 'opinion' at least use your own spittle.
Sad sad sad.......

Well OP, now you have a good lesson, teach your students a bit about plagiarism.
Fun fun fun....

[mindmetoo]