09-14-2005, 12:06 PM
As many of you probably know, recently Mr. Bush came forward saying he was taking the blame for FEMA's craptacular performance (among others), and if you haven't heard, well, here's a link.
Some days ago, we had Mr. Annan claiming he also took responsibility for the rather large fraud involving the "food-for-oil" program in Iraq during Saddam's regime. Here's another of them things youngsters call links.
But are you really?
If you were really taking responsibility, Mr. Bush, we'd be looking at a new election in the US sometime in the next couple of months. If you really wanted to take blame for the mysterious disappearance of a few hundred million dollars, Mr. Annan, you probably should be in jail, and you most definitely shouldn't be still warming a chair in an office belonging to the UN.
In Spain, at least, the politicians have the decency of being obvious crooks, and don't pretend to take responsibility for anything, merely passing the bucket along and chopping off the head of the first hapless underling that makes the mistake of peeking out to see what's happening. When the Prestige oil tanker sank absolutely noone took the blame for anything, and a few months and a "comission" later we had a lot of poo covering the walls, but hell if we knew what the smeg actually happened (besides the obvious). There was a rather large fire recently in Guadalajara that ended up with a lot of burnt forest, and 11 dead firefighters; Rosario Arévalo, the woman in charge of the local coordination effort, was kicked out (it's not good to be an underling, you know), and that's all we ever heard after a healthy dose of poo-flinging at the congress; meanwhile, Spain is still being ravaged by fires.
Lip service? Plenty. Responsibility? Yeah right.
</angry rant>
Some days ago, we had Mr. Annan claiming he also took responsibility for the rather large fraud involving the "food-for-oil" program in Iraq during Saddam's regime. Here's another of them things youngsters call links.
But are you really?
If you were really taking responsibility, Mr. Bush, we'd be looking at a new election in the US sometime in the next couple of months. If you really wanted to take blame for the mysterious disappearance of a few hundred million dollars, Mr. Annan, you probably should be in jail, and you most definitely shouldn't be still warming a chair in an office belonging to the UN.
In Spain, at least, the politicians have the decency of being obvious crooks, and don't pretend to take responsibility for anything, merely passing the bucket along and chopping off the head of the first hapless underling that makes the mistake of peeking out to see what's happening. When the Prestige oil tanker sank absolutely noone took the blame for anything, and a few months and a "comission" later we had a lot of poo covering the walls, but hell if we knew what the smeg actually happened (besides the obvious). There was a rather large fire recently in Guadalajara that ended up with a lot of burnt forest, and 11 dead firefighters; Rosario Arévalo, the woman in charge of the local coordination effort, was kicked out (it's not good to be an underling, you know), and that's all we ever heard after a healthy dose of poo-flinging at the congress; meanwhile, Spain is still being ravaged by fires.
Lip service? Plenty. Responsibility? Yeah right.
</angry rant>