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Hemlocker,
Truth is, it is "White Males" who control the public airways so it is they who get to tell the story no matter how distorted! Idi Amin, now that is a name from the past! How is it that white folk get to endorse atrocities and escape unscathed? They can always find a "Uncle Tom" to do their dirty work! Saddam Hussein stopped playing the game! I am not sure about you assessment of "support" for his regime! Too much propaganda for me!
posted by
Glennb
on July 15, 2005 at 9:33 PM
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And I do wish you would see Bush and company . . .
. . . instead of your jaundiced, myopic distortion. Some decent exposure to their conservative clarity, positive vibes, optimism and sound ideas would do you good and help you whip your challenges.
posted by
WriterofLight
on July 15, 2005 at 5:42 PM
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glenn
I hate to think that all those stories about Saddam's atrocities were overblown, or even outright lying propaganda. Even though I am one, though an outcast one, I sympathize with your perspective on "white males." I can't quite duplicate madame p.o.'s experiences with them, though I can appreciate where she's coming from. I'm not trying to get too picky, but I always wondered how Idi Amin (assuming just ten per cent of the stories about his monstrous behavior was true) managed to avoid justice, and die peacefully. I wonder that about Karadjic and Mladic, white male generals who carried out the horrors of "ethnic cleansing" and are still running loose in Western Europe. I wonder about the oppressive African "presidents for life" who have screwed their own people so badly, and kept the real gifts of Africa and its people from flowering as they should. As for Saddam, of course you know the U.S. supported him in the Iran-Iraq War which killed a million people and maimed untold hundreds of thousands more, because Iran was considered more of a threat to "U.S. Interests." We also trained. armed and supported the mujahadeen in Afghanistan (who became the Taliban) because they were fighting the Soviet Union, our Cold War enemy) The United States has always supported totalitarian dictators and warlords of every race and color, so long as they were "our" totalitarian dictators and warlords. Cheers. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on July 15, 2005 at 1:25 PM
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Madame P.O.
Again thanks for the read! It is our duty to become better citizens as a result of our experiences!
posted by
Glennb
on July 15, 2005 at 9:52 AM
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Have I ever!!
posted by
Mademoiselle
on July 15, 2005 at 9:22 AM
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Madame P.O.
Thanks for the read! There are good indicators that Saddam Hussein is an Arab Nationalist which would make his "real" persona at odds with the image put forth by the propaganda apparatus of the "West"!
I trust you have had some dealings with "White Males"?
posted by
Glennb
on July 15, 2005 at 9:00 AM
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Good points!
I don't know how popular this sentiment will be here, however.
Plus, I'm not sure how "well respected" Saddam Hussein actually was. (Even in the Arab world.) Oh, and, the notion of imprisoning G.W. might be a tad "extreme".
White men
do suck, though!
posted by
Mademoiselle
on July 15, 2005 at 6:51 AM
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