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...Or how about "After praising nations like Bahrain, Morocco, and Oman for embracing reforms, the US leader scolded Iran -- which he once labelled part of 'an axis of evil' along with North Korea and Iraq -- and warned its leadership must follow suit or "lose its last claim to legitimacy."'...Or "But the president's remarks stretched beyond the Middle East, as he declared that the US "commitment to democracy is tested in Cuba and Burma and North Korea and Zimbabwe -- outposts of oppression in our world."
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Actually, I think President Bush is quite correct. Dictatorships need to be dealt with and those who rule without respect to the UN Human Rights Charter should be punished. Incidentally, haven't you noticed the silence on human rights by the Gaddaffi led UN Human Rights Commission.
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...You mean like the mass popular support that Bush had from his "Coalition of the Willing. Who were they again? Let's see:Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. Ah, yes. Some very notable players on the world stage there! And it's not as if any of them were offered bribes (oh, sorry, "financial support packages") to encourage them to sign up...!
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I see little point in this, we were allied during the Second World War with some strange bedfellows: Joe Stalin's USSR, sometimes circumstances are like that. Some of the countries you mention are new democracies, one gets the impression you wish to belittle them due to their size, that's not very nice.
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Hmm, is the same as using cluster bombs in civilian areas, or perhaps the bombing of water, sewerage and power infrastructure in the first Gulf War?
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No, not the same, homicidal terrorists murder deliberately as a matter of policy: men, women, chidren, mothers and babies, and even those at prayer such as the recent terrorist bombing of two synagoges in Turkey,;how on earth can you smugly say that it's the same as Allied forces bombing military targets, if civilians are killed or injured it's regretably accidental.
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Well, actually I am being *FORCED* to contribute hard cash to the London Police because a proportion of the five million pound cost is coming out of *MY* taxes!
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Just my point, we are faced with HIGHER COUNCIL TAX bills simply because anti-American rent a mobs, encouraged by that idiot K. Livingstone searching for publicity inconvenience life in London. If you support anti-American protest why dont you put your money where your mouth is and help a little more by giving the police more cash.
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And who exactly is "renting" this "mob" for the protests? ...
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Very likely many will be living on state benefits, some indeed it could be suggested may be funded by the G.L.A, K. Livingstone loves giving other peoples' money away,who knows?
