Political rant:
Feb. 7th, 2003 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silversolitaireOkay, I feel the need to rant a bit about current affairs. Everybody who isn't interested in a political rant (Meimi?) or who's absolutely with everything the Bush administration does should better look away now.
What the fucking fuck is wrong with Rumsfeld? Does anyone remember last September (a NO I don't mean anything even remotely related to 9-11 or any other tear-jerking memorial)? Election in Germany. Very important election, too, since one canditate was pro-war and the other one con-war. At about the same time some paper wrongly reported a Germany polician had compared Bush to Hitler. What she actually had done was to say that "some people have tried to distract people from the problems in their own country by waging war against others. We've witnessed that already in history with people like Adolf H.,"while talking about Bush in a private conversation which had been eavesdropped and the words then twisted around in her mouth.
What happened was that the US of A went into a hissyfit, bemoaning how wrong Germany is in its political course and how they should stop and think what they're doing. Rumsfeld stepped up and said that the relations between Germany and America were "poisonous". The politician in question was forced to resign without anybody even giving her a chance to explain. Nobody in the US gave a flying fuck about the elections and while the extremely important news-conference of a woman who had slapped her child was on all channels, a tiny newsticker at the bottom said "German politician compares Bush to Hitler. Relations are poisoned." and after a long string of useless newsflashes it said "Oh and they're electing, too, right now, but hey that's not really important. Let's just remember that they're all a bunch of Nazis, okay? * " [* dramatized]
And what happened? Nothing. Germany swallowed the reprimands and hoped it'd all wash over quickly. At some point the USA realized they couldn't go on sulking forever and still kinda needed Germany's support, so now it was all forgiven and forgotten.
Then, around January, Germany and France actually dared to agree not to participate in any Iraq war and the subsequent reparation payments. Both countries agreed wholeheartedly. The US of A went into another hissyfit, calling them both a bunch of partypoopers, stomping their feet sulkily at having their plans for their nice war spoiled. Okay, now seriously. Rumself put up his head once more and dismissed the "axis of France-Germany" [anyone recognizing reused rhetorics here?] as "The Old Europe". But hey, it's just us, right? Germany always has to take verbal abuse from the US, so why should anybody care?
And now, just now, Germany STILL hasn't given in! How dare they! So, after Germany renewed its opposition to war against Iraq in response to Powell's speech... yes, you guessed it right, Rumsfeld steps up again and lumps Germany alongside with Libya and Cuba by saying "Then, there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect."
Uhm, hello? Reality check, Rummy: it's not only Germany and a handful of other countries that oppose your country's insane drive to wage a war. It's a whole bunch of them. And not only that, a good portion of your own citizens do not want another war. Get. Real.
So sure, we can all go ahead and call Germany bad names since they're been used to taking the abuse for over 50 years and since they've been so evil and nasty they have absolutely no right to oppose such a grand and righteous nation as the US of A. So, everyone, get your rotten eggs and tomatoes and toss them at the huns since they really deserve it.
/ rant
Okay, done now. *shuffles off*
What the fucking fuck is wrong with Rumsfeld? Does anyone remember last September (a NO I don't mean anything even remotely related to 9-11 or any other tear-jerking memorial)? Election in Germany. Very important election, too, since one canditate was pro-war and the other one con-war. At about the same time some paper wrongly reported a Germany polician had compared Bush to Hitler. What she actually had done was to say that "some people have tried to distract people from the problems in their own country by waging war against others. We've witnessed that already in history with people like Adolf H.,"while talking about Bush in a private conversation which had been eavesdropped and the words then twisted around in her mouth.
What happened was that the US of A went into a hissyfit, bemoaning how wrong Germany is in its political course and how they should stop and think what they're doing. Rumsfeld stepped up and said that the relations between Germany and America were "poisonous". The politician in question was forced to resign without anybody even giving her a chance to explain. Nobody in the US gave a flying fuck about the elections and while the extremely important news-conference of a woman who had slapped her child was on all channels, a tiny newsticker at the bottom said "German politician compares Bush to Hitler. Relations are poisoned." and after a long string of useless newsflashes it said "Oh and they're electing, too, right now, but hey that's not really important. Let's just remember that they're all a bunch of Nazis, okay? * " [* dramatized]
And what happened? Nothing. Germany swallowed the reprimands and hoped it'd all wash over quickly. At some point the USA realized they couldn't go on sulking forever and still kinda needed Germany's support, so now it was all forgiven and forgotten.
Then, around January, Germany and France actually dared to agree not to participate in any Iraq war and the subsequent reparation payments. Both countries agreed wholeheartedly. The US of A went into another hissyfit, calling them both a bunch of partypoopers, stomping their feet sulkily at having their plans for their nice war spoiled. Okay, now seriously. Rumself put up his head once more and dismissed the "axis of France-Germany" [anyone recognizing reused rhetorics here?] as "The Old Europe". But hey, it's just us, right? Germany always has to take verbal abuse from the US, so why should anybody care?
And now, just now, Germany STILL hasn't given in! How dare they! So, after Germany renewed its opposition to war against Iraq in response to Powell's speech... yes, you guessed it right, Rumsfeld steps up again and lumps Germany alongside with Libya and Cuba by saying "Then, there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect."
Uhm, hello? Reality check, Rummy: it's not only Germany and a handful of other countries that oppose your country's insane drive to wage a war. It's a whole bunch of them. And not only that, a good portion of your own citizens do not want another war. Get. Real.
So sure, we can all go ahead and call Germany bad names since they're been used to taking the abuse for over 50 years and since they've been so evil and nasty they have absolutely no right to oppose such a grand and righteous nation as the US of A. So, everyone, get your rotten eggs and tomatoes and toss them at the huns since they really deserve it.
/ rant
Okay, done now. *shuffles off*
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Date: 2003-02-07 03:37 am (UTC)Off topic
Date: 2003-02-07 10:41 pm (UTC)Re: Off topic
Date: 2003-02-07 11:03 pm (UTC)Thanks...
Date: 2003-02-07 03:39 am (UTC)The people whom I've talked to about the whole affair have been taking things pretty easy. They're saying: Oh, we're not involved, and all I can do is O_O at them. Even if we don't want to be involved, I believe we'd still be forced to take sides.
Thank you
Date: 2003-02-07 07:59 am (UTC)Ouch
Date: 2003-02-07 10:40 pm (UTC)Re: Ouch
Date: 2003-02-07 10:43 pm (UTC)