war, and fishy & unbalanced business

[dkl37@xxxxxxxx]

 "azerty/imachination rec." writes:

> As you should know, i don't remember that the majority of americans 
> clearly voted for bush, there was a sort of strange mess with elections
that 
> gave few protests, am i wrong ?																							
Correct on the first account and incorrect on the second account. There
were plenty of questionable occurances that happened on election night
(i.e. obviously the Florida fiasco) and afterward. And there were many
protests regarding the turn of events. 

Richard Zvonar writes:

> The electoral system in the US is not based purely on the popular 
> vote, but uses a system called the Electoral College.  

> Some people blame Gore's loss of the election to "spoiler" candidate 
> Ralph Nader, whose Green Party voter resulted in the loss of both 
> New Hampshire and Florida. A Gore win in these states would have given 
> him the election, with 295 to Bush's 242 electoral votes.

Sure enough but that election's outcome was also due in part to
questionable circumstances. And not to sound like I'm beating  the same
old liberal drum, but George The Second was selected into office by a
last minute "vote" of the Supreme Court, most of which were members of
the Republican party. I wouldn't be surprised if thorough investigations
occur at some point, similar to Watergate back in the 70s, that uncover
quite a bit of fishy business. 															
And one other thing, GWB is mostly a figurehead and he has a few people
who are really making the decisions from behind the scenes (one of which:
the man who is always notably hidden away in "undisclosed locations" at
the first sign of danger), so when people point at Bush and call him a
tyrant as if he is to blame for the US government's decisions, just
remember that there are others pulling his strings and making him talk
with agendas of their own as well. And I do wish certain people would
stop overgeneralizing when talking about a group of people, be it a
country, a religion, or whatever (i.e. "the US does this", "the
Christians do that.."). I understand that people get emotionally steamed
when talking about such issues and want to handily toss out a catch
phrase to represent whatever they are angry at, but it's silly and
unbalanced. Ok, I'm done. :)																											
Best, Dale

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