Why Bush won't listen after 2000 dead in Iraq
Bush said it quite clearly during his first term as President of the United States: “Either you are with us or against us.” People thought he was talking about being for or against the United States, but they were wrong. What he was actually saying was…
that you are either for Dubya or against Dubya. Bush takes all of his actions and decisions as President personally. Therefore if you attack, or simply disagree, with any of his actions (like invading a sovereign nation) you are in fact attacking him directly.
There is a basic fundamental way that adults treat people that they wish to change their position on an issue, they communicate, they discuss. What they do not do is yell, insult, and scream. This is only done when a person is speaking for the pleasure of hearing his or her own voice. You are driving to work one day. While waiting at a traffic light a person you have never met approaches your window and starts screaming at you. “Thank goodness your window was up,” you think as you drive quickly away.
Here’s why Bush won’t listen to you. All he hears is condemnation of his actions, the negative actions of a few US troops, and “unreasonable” demands being made of him. It doesn’t matter if he was wrong, if some soldiers violated the human rights of others, or if the US should leave Iraq, because you are “against” him.
An example would be the widely known prison abuse scandal. If you condemn the stacking of naked Iraqis, naked pictures, and threats of vicious dogs, but did not condemn the beheading, shooting, and torture of US soldiers, civilian contractors, and Iraqi civilians you are “against us.”
Did anyone protest the killing of Iraqi civilians during the US take over of Iraq? Now, how many of those of you that said yes also condemned the deliberate targeting of Iraqi civilians by anti-US forces? No? So, Bush thinks you are “against us.”
One of the very reasonable desires is to have the US withdraw from Iraq. Problem: What happens to Iraq after the US withdraws? The US has had a presence in Iraq since 1991. That’s 14 and one half years to you and me. What will happen? Bush fears mass chaos and an enemy that will attack the US once they are strong enough. Are his fears ungrounded? So Bush thinks you are “against us.”
An attack against a convoy in the capitol city of Kabul left several civilians dead, and who knows how many injured. Did you protest? No? You may be “against us”.
If Bush thinks that you are against him, why do you think he will listen?
that you are either for Dubya or against Dubya. Bush takes all of his actions and decisions as President personally. Therefore if you attack, or simply disagree, with any of his actions (like invading a sovereign nation) you are in fact attacking him directly.
There is a basic fundamental way that adults treat people that they wish to change their position on an issue, they communicate, they discuss. What they do not do is yell, insult, and scream. This is only done when a person is speaking for the pleasure of hearing his or her own voice. You are driving to work one day. While waiting at a traffic light a person you have never met approaches your window and starts screaming at you. “Thank goodness your window was up,” you think as you drive quickly away.
Here’s why Bush won’t listen to you. All he hears is condemnation of his actions, the negative actions of a few US troops, and “unreasonable” demands being made of him. It doesn’t matter if he was wrong, if some soldiers violated the human rights of others, or if the US should leave Iraq, because you are “against” him.
An example would be the widely known prison abuse scandal. If you condemn the stacking of naked Iraqis, naked pictures, and threats of vicious dogs, but did not condemn the beheading, shooting, and torture of US soldiers, civilian contractors, and Iraqi civilians you are “against us.”
Did anyone protest the killing of Iraqi civilians during the US take over of Iraq? Now, how many of those of you that said yes also condemned the deliberate targeting of Iraqi civilians by anti-US forces? No? So, Bush thinks you are “against us.”
One of the very reasonable desires is to have the US withdraw from Iraq. Problem: What happens to Iraq after the US withdraws? The US has had a presence in Iraq since 1991. That’s 14 and one half years to you and me. What will happen? Bush fears mass chaos and an enemy that will attack the US once they are strong enough. Are his fears ungrounded? So Bush thinks you are “against us.”
An attack against a convoy in the capitol city of Kabul left several civilians dead, and who knows how many injured. Did you protest? No? You may be “against us”.
If Bush thinks that you are against him, why do you think he will listen?
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