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Thread #70467   Message #1203340
Posted By: jack halyard
09-Jun-04 - 04:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: So carry on then with the abuse....
Subject: RE: BS: So carry on then with the abuse....
I am angry, but I'm hardly surprised. Folks, America- or atleast its government, refused to ratify a number of international conventions icluding a meaningful international court. It is precisely such a court that would have been the appropriate forum for the impartial trial of Saddam Hussein, and it is now appropriate for an impartial trail of George Bush.
I remember Arlo Guthrie singing in the early seventies

"If you didn't know about that one, then what else don't you know."

Our own prime miniscule, John Howard, is appealing to the same ignorance, and with his toadying to the international policeman has given many Australians the same sense of deep shame. I feel deeply for ordinary Americans. The sooner you get big money out of your politics and get a broader base of presidential possibilities than your aristocracy of business, the better for both America and the rest of thye world.