Harold Pinter acknowledgement speech

[Fragbait]

We can rehash this again if you like, but I doubt you will convince me that Bush or Blair are thugs on the order of Saddam, or that they "do not play by the rules" on the order that Saddam did not in defying UNSCOM, or the UN. 

So yuck it up if you like, and be happy in knowing that Bush will not be President in 2008.  So until then, are you going to join Eppie in his hurling of rotten tomatoes?
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Hi,

A major fraction of the European population, including me, thinks that G.W. Bush is a thug. The general motivations for that are (not exhaustive):

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a] the false forwarded justification for the invasion in Iraq
b] the overriding of the United Nations in the same case
c] the indifferent and dangerous generalisation of certain states to 'the axis of evil'
d] the inhuman treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
e] the undercover transportation of CIA prisoners over foreign airspace
f] the election defraud that lead to his first presidency in the first place

Other reasons why I think that he is a thug include his dubious affairs with some companies (oil or not) of his fathers friends, during which he earned money and power, and of course that he works with other thugs as well - Dick Cheney springs to mind (I think his ensnarement in illegal commissioning to his allies is unquestionable). Also the different measurement that is applied to terrorists that help the governments secret ambitions and to terrorists that are contra America is palpable. These reasons are not that wide spread than the ones above, though.

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Now, I didn't put Bush and Saddam on the same level, you did (sort of).
Saddam is a war criminal, commanding the death of hundreds (if not thousands). Removing him from power is an utterly different subject of discussion.
What struck me somewhat funny was that your phrasing of the sentence rather made me think of George W. Bush than of Saddam Hussein, because of the kind of weak term. Which is obviously not quite what you wanted. ;)

One more thing: I don't throw rotten tomatoes. I don't throw anything - gee, I'm no 68er :w00t: .

Well - eggs perhaps.
Foul eggs. :whistling:

Greetings, Fragbait