ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE — Still burned by French resistance to US war plans, the stewards aboard Air Force One joined congressional lawmakers and scores of diners nationwide in scratching the word ”French” from its menu, replacing French toast with ”freedom toast” on the flight to Florida yesterday. [The Boston Globe]
Two can play at that game:
The bombs have started falling on Iraq. As I write, President Bush is giving a televised address to announce this tragic fact.
Bush’s address begins "My fellow citizens," and it’s being aired live on ten channels in my living room, but I don’t feel very much like a citizen of the nightmare world this degenerate seems intent on creating.
The speed with which the attack has been launched – just 90 minutes after the American deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq – only reflects the racpaciousness and belligerence of our new world leaders. Today it is Iraq, tomorrow it is whoever Bush pleases.
And I cannot even begin to express the shame I feel that my country is a part of all of this, that our Prime Minister has so quickly fallen in line with the Americans.
It disgusts and appals me to see what the world has become.
And I cannot help but wonder where it will end.
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What fun it is to be a citizen of one of the few morally bankrupt countries despicable enough to sign on for George Bush’s sordid ‘Coalition of the Willing’.
As an Australian, you get used to third-rate ‘leadership’. You get used to politicians who cheat, lie and swindle for their personal gain and who perpetuate their positions by sowing hatred and division while spouting fatuous platitudes about ‘Aussie mums and dads’, ‘battlers’ and ‘ordinary folk doing it tough in the bush’. It’s par for the course here in Godzone. It’s the Australian way. Continue reading
