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[quote][b]steve[/b] wrote: I think people with activist tendencies tend to like to oversimplify things that are not simple at all. After all, when demonstrating, you can't really fit the whole argument on a banner, or shout all of it down a megaphone and hope people will listen. So simplifying it all down to 'Bush is a war criminal' is a convenient, if also unrepresentative, contraction. There are many, many dimensions to this issue and just looking for a 2-line Wikipedia definition to reinforce your position doesn't do the subject any justice at all. Neither does a blog entry, so ironically I'm arguing against my own post here. But I digress. I'll come clean - I'm British. We have a kind of love/hate relationship with the US - we kinda get on in most things, and we certainly have common views on many issues, but to us the US often tends to be like a brash, stepping-in-with-size-10s, bigger and louder younger brother. We'd like to clap our hands over his mouth sometimes, but he's too strong for that. So we try to give him solid older-brother type advice and hope he doesn't do too much damage, all the while smoothing ruffled feathers in his wake. Bottom line is that the US is trying to do the right thing. Often they don't know how to do it properly, but they try anyway. Nothing in this world is perfect, except hindsight - something which activists have on their side in spades, but politicians do not. Do I think Saddam should have been toppled? Yes, absolutely. Do I think it was done right? No - the post-Saddam planning was just appalling, leading to the current situation. Do I think other regions have dictators just as bad? Yes, but none in such a strategic position, and you have to start somewhere. Do I think Bush is a moron? Perhaps not quite a moron, but he's not that bright when it comes to how things work in countries that aren't the US, which is why he's in this mess. But a war criminal? No. You're entitled to your opinion of course, but by blogging it, it's fair game for counter arguments :)[/quote]
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