Not sure how many people watched Bush's speech at the UN a few minutes ago but I wanted to make a couple of quick comments. A lot of glaring — and even open derisive laughing — from the audience, but really, this speech was for the US voters, not for the UN.
Cloning Bush is pushing for the UN to enact a worldwide treaty banning human cloning, which is just another step in his ignorant and anti-science adminstration's strategy to keep humanity from moving forward. If we really want to move into the future, cloning could be an essential technology. And even if it's not, short of bizarroworld sci-fi scenarios of dubious likelihood, it's not as if there's even a reason why this type of science is dangerous — unless you buy the “they'll be born without souls” voodoo crap.
Liberty It always blows my mind to watch Bush preach about liberty and how other nations need to do this or do that… when in relative terms he's slashed more civil rights than any US President of the last fifty years. He's opposed to science, he's opposed to women's rights, gay rights, he's opposed to gun ownership, he's opposed to a free press, and so on and so on… Scary that there are people who actually believe the opposite in face of all his actions.
Democracy Now, I do buy the theory that if Iraq were to have a legitimate democracy that it would be a very good thing for the Middle East. However, I also buy the theory that America can't force democracy on anyone — that Iraq has to do it for themselves, on their own (as I've said many times before).
But the one that really got me was when he was talking about Afghanistan. He said something along the lines of “if you want to know if a Muslim society can be democractic, look at Afghanistan”. Then he went on to say how there are “over ten million registered voters, four million of them women”. Here's the problem. The population of Afghanistan that is elligible to vote is 9.8 million. While the UN does believe that there was a very high voter registration rate, the fact is that it's not over 100%.
Bush knows this because he's been publicly called on it multiple times. The international media knows this. The people sitting in the UN know this. The only people who don't know it are the uneducated and uninformed US voters, and, like I said, that is who Bush was blabbing at the UN at.
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