From: zursch@whizkid.corp.sgi.com (Jeff Zurschmeide)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Bush for (Ex)President in '92!
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:51:47 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>
>Question:  Do you REALLY feel that Reagan and Bush have been paragons of
>restraint???  Look at the past 12 years.  Grenada was basically an
>instance where Reagan decided to make an example of a miniscule South
>American country.  Reagan had a hardon for Qaddafi and used the bombing
>of that West German disco as a pretext for bombing Tripoli, despite the fact
>that the Syrians (I think) really did it.  Noriega and Hussein were
>hunky-dory in Bush's book, until they refused to roll over on command;
>then, in a manner reminscent of the Drug War hysteria, America was suddenly
>convinced that those two thugs were dangers to our way of life

Look pussy-boy, that's the way empires work. Deal with it. When the 
local-yokel governers get out of line, you send a few legions around
and pacify the place. Look at Panama, the place has been Just Ducky
since they carted old waffle-face off to meet "Bubba" in maximum 
security unit 10. And do you know what they used for currency there
before the invasion? Dollars, that's what. They didn't even bother
to have their own MONEY. I'd call that a colony, wouldn't you? 

>IMO, if people learned to think critically, rather than swallow whole
>any rancid pap generated by the "spin masters" in Washington, we'd be a
>whole lot better off as a nation.

Yup, then we wouldn't have to deal with wimps and patsys trashing the
federal building every time we rein in one of our wayward satellites. 

Peeve - Protestors. Sanctimonious Protestors in Particular. 

Anti-Peeve - The graffiti under the Highway 1 bridge at Ocean 
St. in Santa Cruz that sez: "I'm pro-choice and I riot!"

>The BASTARDS!  How dare they not align themselves with our priorities?! :v)

Damn Straight. Look, we've got them by the balls and we make the rules. 
If they don't like it, they can discuss it with Stormin' Norman. 

>The big picture is still sorting itself out at this time, moving in and
>out of focus; thus, it's about as easy to hold on to as a fistful of sand.
>If you're talking about the Cold War as the big picture, I'm afraid that
>even that conclusion is up for grabs.

Bzzzt. I was no fan of Reagan, but in retrospect, I have to admit that 
he was right about the Sovs. He cranked our industrial output up and 
we buried them. End-of-Story. Sorry if it intrudes on your leftist leanings.

>Sure, we're not standing toe-to-toe with the former Soviet Union
>anymore but look at all the awful things that the US did, in its fits
>of anti-Communist frenzy.  How many people died through torture in
>Chile, after a US-backed coup replaced Allende with the butcher Pinochet?
>How many people died in Nicaragua, as a result of US-sponsored terrorist
>activities?

People fighting against the dictates of the empire get killed. Go watch
"Life of Brian" again, only place it in Nicaragua in 1986. Fact of life,
Donnie-boy. Sorry if it intrudes on your nice lifestyle.

>IMO, the world will have become a sane place when international applies
>EQUALLY all around:  when the extradition of CIA terrorists to Nicaragua
>is as certain as the extradition of Libyan terrorists to the US.

Not a chance anytime soon, Pal. This isn't a cooperative collectivist 
garden project, it's an empire. Sorry if that offends your undergraduate
egalitarian oh-wow-let's-all-share-the-experience politics, but that's
it. Now get out of the way while the rest of us decide where the planet's
going...Sorry if it intrudes on your life expectancy.

>Look, I'm not a Communist OR a pacifist.  There's a time to fight and a
>time for peace.  I just think it's damned dangerous to take the word of
>the kind of thug we've had in office for the past 12 years, regarding
>what time it is.

As if anything that's happened in the last 20 years has been a fight. 

The last "fight" that this country had was WWII. I mean, besides 
fucking yellow ribbons, most of us just tuned into CNN to check 
out the field test of the smart bombs. The price of gas even 
went *down* during the gulf war. Sorry if that intrudes on your
shirley-maclaine version of reality. 

>You don't see JiZ running around filleting with his sword anyone who looks
>at him funny (as many do), do you? :v)

I see jiz running down your chin, though....sorry if Fat Frank
broke your teeth. 

ObSurd - Dan Quayle 

ObSword - japanese katana, circa 1200, that *I* got to hold and swing once. 

ObScene - DonB buggering Not Al with a lubricated shoe tree.

JZ
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