What has Bush done to AMERICA'S GOOD NAME in the world? ===>

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"I've been deeply embarrassed as a civil rights advocate that we have had the American government stand convicted around the world as one of the greatest abusers of civil rights," said (former President) Carter, the 2002 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

"What has happened the last five years has brought discouragement and sometimes international disgrace to our great country," he said.

"What has happened in the last five years has been a radical departure from what all previous presidents have done, including George Bush Sr., and Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower," the former president said, listing the last five Republican presidents.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092906T.shtml

[whistle]

1. Where will Disney put George Dubya Bush in the Hall of Presidents?

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Is there an outhouse? I think that would be an appropriate place.

[madokie]

5. Its time to add one for sure,

[BLUSH]

8. He's turned the White House into an outhouse

Oval Office smells of sulfur :P

[BLUSH]

7. he's a mickey mouse president for sure

goofy too

[resist_vote on paper]

3. The Reputation can't easily be rebuild,

and even not the constitution.

We still suffer under the stigmata of Hitler here in Germany.

We still pay for the slave labors.

We still are not allowed to say something against Israels politics.

You better try to avoid this before it goes into the not-stopable stadium...

[LynnTheDem]

4. bush's America; "greatest abusers of civil rights"

bush has already caused more American deaths than Osama bin Laden.

bush has already caused more Iraqi deaths than Saddam Hussein.

Afghanistan; WORSE OFF NOW than before bush's invasion.

Iraq; WORSE OFF NOW than before bush's (illegal "supreme crime") invasion.

America; far worse off now than before bush.

Even condi admits it'll take "generations" to get our reputation back.

A start would be doing what Italy did to their fascist bastard.

[BLUSH]

20. he's the DECIDERERER!!!!!!

[genie_weenie]

6. Are you kidding me? Bush is just the last (not even the worst)

in a long line of American Profiteers and Imperialists. Ask the Hawaiians or Filipinos about McKinley, or the Seminoles about Jackson, or Panama, or Haiti or Cuba or Vietnamese...

Bush is evil but it's not as if he was the first American President to export violence and war for monetary gain...

[BLUSH]

9. We have lost our moral standing!

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10. Do Unto Your Enemy...

America's moral standing has eroded, thanks to its flawed rationale for war and scandals like Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and Haditha. The last thing we can afford now is to leave Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions open to reinterpretation, as President Bush proposed to do and can still do under the compromise bill that emerged last week.

Blurring the lines on the letter of Article 3 - it governs the treatment of prisoners of war, prohibiting "violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture" and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment" - will only make our troops' tough fight even tougher. It will undermine the power of all the Geneva Conventions, immediately endanger American troops captured by the enemy and create a powerful recruiting tool for Al Qaeda.

But the fight over Article 3 concerns not only Al Qaeda and the war in Iraq. It also affects future wars, because when we lower the bar for the treatment of our prisoners, other countries feel justified in doing the same. Four years ago in Liberia, in an attempt to preserve his corrupt authority, President Charles Taylor adopted the Bush administration's phrase "unlawful combatants" to describe prisoners he wished to try outside of civilian courts. Today Mr. Taylor stands before The Hague accused of war crimes.

If America continues to erode the meaning of the Geneva Conventions, we will cede the ground upon which to prosecute dictators and warlords. We will also become unable to protect our troops if they are perceived as being no more bound by the rule of law than dictators and warlords themselves.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-rieckhoff/do-unto-your-enemy_b_30585.html

[resist_vote on paper]

12. Wunderbar!

This Article is great. It hits the point of it exactly.

We should learn more from the animals - even they are able to keep their fighting rules consistent. They know very well by instinct, that they could easily being a victim them selfs, if breaking the rules and win as a jerk.

I have seen it with red deers- no deer would dare to attack the enemy while he is posingly walking around- even if the open side is directly in front of its horns.

And humans? Kick other humans into the face while lying helpless on the ground...

Honour? Dignity? Nobility? Died out. "Fuck you" is the new thinking!?

Mankind? Nothing to fight for any more...if we let this happen, we don't deserve to survive.

[BLUSH]

13. Bush's most (in)famous quote, the one that will define him

"If elected, I pledge to usher in a new era of integrity inside the Oval Office."

[resist_vote on paper]

11. What is America becoming?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoRjbIQMXGQ

There are some other quite interesting links.

@Mods: not to Alex Jones, I sware :-)

[BLUSH]

14. "we do not torture"

[Lisa]

15. my boss was so embarrassed last week -- on a trip to the Middle East

... people thought he was Canadian, and started telling him how much they disliked the Americans -- "stupid", "immature", "incompetent", "hypocritical", etc.

He was actually born in the States. He says the worst thing was realizing that much of this was based on actual situations which he was seeing as well, so he couldn't come up with a rebuttal. He's not been passionately political, but yesterday he got all teary-eyed about the US constitution, and the McCarthyesque things going on now.

[BLUSH]

16. "stupid", "immature", "incompetent", "hypocritical"

That describes Bush in a nutshell.

[Lisa]

17. and the ironic thing is ...

Aside from being born in the same country, in the same decade (and being keen on running and mountain-biking), the two men could not be more different! So no wonder being tarred with the same brush like that is depressing -- I feel sorry for the almost 300 million Americans who are subjected to this humiliation. Personally I would pay good money to watch my boss bike Georgie the Pretend-Athlete into the ground (his marathon time was better than Bush's too).

[BLUSH]

18. Not exactly 300 million

About 50 million support -- almost worship -- Bush. (That is, the radical right-wing "family values" conservatives.)

[Lisa]

21. well, okay -- feel sorry in the same sense that if I see them trailing ...

.... toilet paper on their shoes as they come out of the restroom, I cannot help but pity how ridiculous they look.

(I do have bleeding-heart liberal leanings, after all!)

Of course, whether I tell them about the TP depends on what kind of mood I'm in!

(I didn't say I was THAT kind and forgiving!)

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22. TP

:rofl:

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19. President Bush's Assault on Our Civil Liberties

Our Plan to RESTORE The Constitution

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23. Honor and Integrity