[Taristin]

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/46379.htm


(I was just looking for a witty title, BTW; I'm not supporting murdering anyone. )

[Rictor]

Damn people; they get such a golden opportunity and can't even be bothered to scrounge up a working grenade. That's just lazy is what it is.

[redmenace]

Regaurdless of my disdane for bush, I kinda agree with the sentiment in regaurd to the baltic nations.

[vyper]

Originally posted by Rictor
Damn people; they get such a golden opportunity and can't even be bothered to scrounge up a working grenade. That's just lazy is what it is.

Immigrant labour I tells ya...

[mitac]

Bush is unpopular in countries like France and Germany

Though this is quite true, it's interesting to put this in context of an attempted assassination. Or whatever it was.

[Taristin]

Bush is unpopular in countries like the United States of America, and Canada.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Raa
Bush is unpopular in countries like the United States of America, and Canada.

So true

[mitac]

Originally posted by Raa
Bush is unpopular in countries like the United States of America, and Canada.

[Setekh]

I'm still amazed that someone who's so unpopular can be elected democratically. If he's like John Howard, it's probably because he's good at convincing the people that "non-core promises" (i.e. promises that the government doesn't have to keep) are legitimate.

[Bobboau]

it's squarely because his opposition is even more incompetent than him. the only diference is that there incompotence is in winning elections his incompotence is in governing. couple that with roughly 50/50 split of the nation and you can see it, the fact the Bush one is more a statement about how bad his opposition is at the game of politics than how popular he is.

[Rictor]

Actually, since this happened in Georgia it's more of a reflection on Bush's popularity with "all those other people" than with his electorate, though I think Bob pretty much nailed it. Bush probably wouldn't have been possible 30 years ago, because at that time the Republican Party hadn't yet "discovered" how to mobilize the God, Guns, Glory crowd, and the Democrats weren't quite so ridiculously incompetent.

Though it's certainly ironic that someone flung a grenade at him in a country which was recently "liberated" with Washington's open support. Well, at least he still has...uh...Poland.

[Setekh]

That's pretty horrendous. However, it is a little reminiscent of the Australian scene... the Liberals (and particularly, John Howard) have been in power for three successive terms now, while Labour has been floundering around with party infighting for the past few years. They just go through opposition leader after opposition leader... I think we're back to the one we had a couple of years ago, and back then he'd been kicked out twice already.

I keep on thinking of how screwy the system is, where such leaders get to the top. Am I wrong to expect that the whole thing will come crashing down on our heads soon enough? How long will the USA last before it does a Rome and crumbles from the inside? No doubt when the US goes down, Australia will go down with it... however many decades or centuries that is down the line.

[Taristin]

Thank god for two term limits.

I can only prey Hillary Clinton isn't elected next.

[Deepblue]

Um, does anyone else find it disturbing that people are pretty much supporting assasination/murder here???

I don't care if you don't like someone's opinion, that's too far.

[Taristin]

Never said we support it. In fact, i explicitly said I'm not supporting it.

Go back to whoring M$

[Deepblue]

I was thinking about Rictor, not you.

[Taristin]

Yeah, but you know Rictor...

[Rictor]

Hey, I'm not ashamed to say I fully support assassination, when appropriate. It all depends on the person. If they've done enough harm, and deserve it, or are likely to inflict harm in the future, and need to be stopped, why not?

Are you honestly going to tell me that you wouldn't take a shot at bin Laden or whoever, if you had the chance?

[Ace]

Only if I could put both Bin Laden and Bush in the same room with Kim Jong Il and remove the air from the chamber all three are in.

Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, and the Ayatollahs of Iran would be dealt with by HK protocol droids in the meantime.

[Knight Templar]

You all forget that despite how ****ty things are in and with America right now, and assassination of Bush would only serve to make the situation worse. Not only would it throw the government into temporary chaos, it's not like his replacement would be any more preferable.