Quote:1. I read Michael Moore's book dude where's my country...I wonder if you were slandered and put into such a serious light would you if you were the U.S. president stand back and not do anything or would you attempt to ensure your name was cleared?
If you're a public figure, the threshold for proving libel (slander is spoken, libel is written) is much, much higher. Also, any time our public figures do sue, usually it has two negative effects. One, it calls greater attention to the person attacking you and helps their sales, two, it makes the suer look like a wimp that can't handle attack. That said, there are websites that challenge much of Moore's work. I don't pay attention to his work myself or his critics so who's right or wrong I'll leave to someone else.
Quote:2.According to statistics reported in more than one of your news groups and papers Bush has managed to put you all in the poor house for decades.
You're buying into hyperbole. I'm with Kandrathe, can you explain where you are getting this from?
Quote:3.He and his administration virtually cut off all negotiation with the U.N. on invading Iraq and decided to go into Iraq with out U.N. security council unnaimous approval...I did not sense or believe that Bush and et al. were in the slight bit interested in what any one else thought they were in a big stick weilding mood and forget what the rest of the freaking world thinks about were going in. This smack of out right arrogance of the first degree.
Can I just be honest?
Bush (and I) don't believe the UN or most of the countries' politicians opposing the war on any grounds were being impartial. They had self-interests they were serving. So were we. Geopolitics as usual.
Quote:4. The guy refused to sign an agreement that virtually every country in the world signed on to regarding the world court. Ie. Its okay for the United States to assign a name to a man such as they have in Guantanamo and hold him with out trial and remove just about any other human right save food and water.... but its not alright for the same to happen to an American soldier or citzen that purpetrates those very same crimes in some other country.
Now to be more honest. Following the war in Iraq, I believe Belgium tried to try our soldiers for war crimes just for the waging of standard war. You may not believe me but here's what would happen if we joined the ICC.
Other countries would use it as blackmail to try to prevent American action. "Don't invade Iraq or we'll prosecute your soldiers for war crimes and execute them". "Lower your trade barriers or we'll prosecute soldiers in Iraq for war crimes for showing pictures of Sadaam getting a medical exam or draping a US flag over a Hussein statue."
As certain as the rising of the sun. Or let me ask it this way. Do you think we committed war crimes in Iraq? Afghanistan?
Quote:note the Egyptian, Roman, Greek, French, British as past examples of the great humbled
What's the comparison you see between the United States and those former empires?