The World Since 4004 BC for Tuesday, May 16, 2006

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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Bush's Ersatz Compassion

How much more "human life" is George Bush willing to sacrifice for his noble cause? He claims to be spreading democracy around the world because, he says, “democratic nay-shuns” don’t make war on their neighbors – or as he likes to put it, “on their neighbor.” What is it that makes Bush immune to the irony of such words coming from his lips – from him of all people? How is it that he is blind to the contradiction between his rhetoric and the fact that even as he speaks his own democratic nation... Sign in to see full entry.

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