Republican Vocabulary.

[cease_fire]

I have to admit that I saw this as a comment on another forum. But it was amazing... and heartbreaking... Props to Jersey Jay - whoever you are...

I've boiled down Bush's address for you so you can get a feel for how we look to the world. Compare his to Brazil's, and decide who the world leaders really are right now. For W., I pulled out only the key words for his message, the ones we in the U.S, know so well, but the rest of the world might find perplexing and disturbing.

This is what they heard in his TWENTY MINUTE address:

Attacks...death...suffering...terrible...extremists...killed...enemies...murder... Al Qaeda... extremist... attacked... extremists... terrible extremists... terror... weapon... fear... terror... extremists... terror... terrible... war... brutal Taliban... dictator... killed... destabilizing... oppression... hopelessness... extremism... propaganda... conspiracy theories... extremists... misery... violence... terror... martyrdom... blow themselves up... suicide attacks... terror... conquest... extremists... “My country desires peace”... extremists... propaganda... war... propaganda... terror... “death and destruction”

Then he addressed the peoples of:

Iraq:
“car bombers”... assassins... “horrendous acts of terror”... “sectarian violence”... “enemies of freedom”... “terrorists and extremists”...

Afghanistan:
misery... terrorists... death... extremists... oppress... terrorists...

Lebanon:
“Hezbollah’s unprovoked attacks on Israel”... crossfire... suffering... “armed extremists”...

Iran:
"fund terrorism"... extremism... “nuclear weapons”... “nuclear weapons ambitions”...

Syria:
“crossroad for terrorism”... “Hamas and Hezbollah”... “tool of Iran”... isolation... “support for terror”

Darfur:
violence... atrocities... genocide... suffering... “not strong enough”...

Palestinians:
“decades of corruption and violence”... “daily humiliation of occupation”

Israel:
“brutal acts of terrorism”... “constant fear of attack”... extremists... hatred... Hamas... “extremist agenda”... terror... terrorists and extremists

MOST IRONIC LINE OF THE ADDRESS: “Freedom, by its nature, cannot be imposed - It must be chosen”



How far our Domestic Bliss has fallen...

[Suich]

1. Geez...I really wish this wasn't true but

I have no doubt that it is...thanks!

:hi:

[lpbk2713]

2. BINGO!

He didn't miss a square.

[porkrind]

3. Orwellian (n/t)