No Room For Bigotry In America?

Sean

"Our enemies are right to fear open societies, because
those societies leave no room for bigotry and tyranny."
— G. W. Bush (Source: The White House )

DadaKopf

Is that quote not a complete contradiction?

Sean

Yeah tis.
look hes the one saying "we must stop bigots" bleh ect mean while on one of the US navy ships they are writing BIGOT quotes on there bombs...

Hobbes

"High Jack"... he's a credit to the school system.

DadaKopf

"Our enemies are right to fear open societies, because
those societies leave no room for bigotry and tyranny."

Is this actually saying: If America was a bigoted and tyrannical society, they'd be the same as the Taliban?

Well, America is notoriously bigoted and is accused of a tyrannical foreign policy.

That quote just seems to be saying that liberal democracy leaves no place for people to have opinions! Is it not everyone's right to be bigoted?

Tyranny, on the other hand, that's a sticky issue. It's quite an amorphous term - what's tyranny? Bush's speech just seems to contradict everything he's attampting to say.

One thing which is quite scary about the whole speech is the number ot times and the manner in which he refers to God. As the president of a secular nation, he sure does represent only one side of the US population. He's adopted a quasi-pontifical stance (as has Blair). "We're not fighting a nation; we're not fighting a religion; we're fighting evil" Bush says. Evil is a religious concept. Maybe he's eyeing up the Papal See!

I dunno, it all seems strange.

bugler

Haha. I don't have time to write on the boards these days but I just had to comment on that...funny on many levels.

We teach young men to drop fire on people but won't allow them to write '****' on their planes because it's obscene

That was said by a more eloquent soldier, Brando's Col.Kurtz of "Apocolypse Now" fame

Sean

"It is important that we stay the course, bring these
people to justice, to show— and show others
how to fight the new wars of the 21st century."
— G. W. Bush

Bush should be locked up..
little children with blowen off legs in Kabul hospital....
its Disprate if you ask me