03-11-2004, 08:55 AM
First I want to state (again) that I don't hate america. On several other threads I wrote this before, I have always been fasinated by the US, and the US-life, and chances are that I will live in the US for a year. (next year) Anyway I hope everybody sees that this thread is not about a europe-US fight, it is about Kerry. Okay I don't know a lot about this guy, but I have never discovered dutch television to be leftish and anti Bush, so I guess what they say, that he is left of the middle is true, and I like that.
The reply about the swear-words I did not understand, Sir die alot: do you mean that Kerry swears in public or something?. Well I could not care less about that if it is true, I remember Bush's slip during that conference where he called some guy form the press a ***** it would be strange if that is the only time in his life that he used LL forbidden words. I think the time an election is focussing on those issues, you know it is the wrong way.
Scandals (that I know of): Nixon had watergate, clinton had Monica-gate, is it just me or is the first one a tad more severe?. Disrupting a whole country for a year just to accuse somebody form having sex with an intern? That is something his wife should have done not the republican party.
Than I don't like the lies that are used: wasn't it Cheney who was in charge of making a fake moon-landing movie in the case the real-one failed? And the Gulf war 1 thing, that they said that Iraki soldiers threw babies form their couveuses (I don't know if this is the right word, I mean those boxes with oxygen where they put small babies in) and let them die on the ground. Where the only witness turned out to be the daughter of the kuwaiti consul in Washington.
Normally I don't like examples, but these things formed partly my opinion of the republican party. Another thing is their environmental policy, which is disastrous. That Bush might have used drugs or that his daughters get drunk all the time, I don't care about, it's their life.
As last point: some of you indicated that you did not care how europe thinks about the US. I think that is one of the most terrible things that can happen in world politics. We should keep correcting eachother and learning from eachother. (I want to see what Bush is going to do when he has to build up his completely ruined economy, he must know that giving tax back to people must end some time). :D
Well let us see through all the propaganda machines and keep our heads clear for some more nice discussions.
The reply about the swear-words I did not understand, Sir die alot: do you mean that Kerry swears in public or something?. Well I could not care less about that if it is true, I remember Bush's slip during that conference where he called some guy form the press a ***** it would be strange if that is the only time in his life that he used LL forbidden words. I think the time an election is focussing on those issues, you know it is the wrong way.
Scandals (that I know of): Nixon had watergate, clinton had Monica-gate, is it just me or is the first one a tad more severe?. Disrupting a whole country for a year just to accuse somebody form having sex with an intern? That is something his wife should have done not the republican party.
Than I don't like the lies that are used: wasn't it Cheney who was in charge of making a fake moon-landing movie in the case the real-one failed? And the Gulf war 1 thing, that they said that Iraki soldiers threw babies form their couveuses (I don't know if this is the right word, I mean those boxes with oxygen where they put small babies in) and let them die on the ground. Where the only witness turned out to be the daughter of the kuwaiti consul in Washington.
Normally I don't like examples, but these things formed partly my opinion of the republican party. Another thing is their environmental policy, which is disastrous. That Bush might have used drugs or that his daughters get drunk all the time, I don't care about, it's their life.
As last point: some of you indicated that you did not care how europe thinks about the US. I think that is one of the most terrible things that can happen in world politics. We should keep correcting eachother and learning from eachother. (I want to see what Bush is going to do when he has to build up his completely ruined economy, he must know that giving tax back to people must end some time). :D
Well let us see through all the propaganda machines and keep our heads clear for some more nice discussions.