Would the assasination of Bush/Cheney help our country?

*checks his calender* Hrm, not april 1st...i hope you were joking.

 

Your hatred for the US is clogging your brain. You should review a thing called a "history book." Democracies declare war as frequent if not MORE frequent than any other form of government. From Athens, To england to America.

 

you still think we live in a democracy? This is not a democracy... this is a republic

 

To clarify... a democracy is where the people directly elect their leaders by direct election.

The USA is a republic - and more to the point, an oligarchy (taking into account that a corporation is a legal entity). The USA federal elections have only the appearance of choice. But really, you are only choosing between the most photogenic of two opposing parties.

To ascend to the position of being a candidate - you need to have almost unlimited financial resources. That cuts down the choice even more. There are only a handful of people in the US that have that type of resource...and they are usually coporate heads, bankers.... This is oligarchy, rule by the few elite rich. And it's amazing how a little money in the hand can change the outlook of a voter.

Shit, we don't even have a direct vote of our two non-choices... the electoral college does that for us... And do any of those square states in the mid-west have a choice... not with that few electoral votes they don't.

And finally - even a popular vote is thrown out when push comes to shove - i.e. presidents bush's election via the supreme court; they ignored the popular vote.

And history.... "History is written by those who have hanged heroes"

 

you people with your nitpicking are really stretching. We are technically a "democratic republic." No country has a "real democracy." However, the American Republic and other parliamentarian systems fall under what we all call "democracy." Democracy is just a euphemism(sp?) for people having the right to vote.

 

Once again your facts are wrong. Bill clinton signed the ICC, but didnt submit it to congress because he knew it wouldnt pass. It has been signed, but not ratified. Clintons justification for signing it without any intention of ratifying it was so that we could correct the inherent problems with the ICC.

 

then give the 5 UNSC members a permanent judge position and force all decisions to be unanimous. Otherwise, we arent going to subject ourself to a witch hunt or politically bias people. We can try our own war criminals.

 

War Crimes are crimes committed in the international arena not domestically. The track record of judging one's own is piss poor im afraid and the jurisdiction for trans-national crimes is rightly an international tribunal.

At the national level that is the is only position which remains consistent to the principles of "the rule of law".

 

Skip for President in 2008! That is assuming we havent smashed the state by then... Skip is like... Uber genious...

 

Opps posted before saying the other bit. Ok so we forcefully remove the leaders of this country to have a better nation.... One question.... Did it work in Iraq? 4 or 5 are opposed to the ocupation now

 

Sadly, Skip, we're more likely to see them all handed cozy directorships along with with Bush Sr. in the Carlyle Group than we are to see them suffer any prison time for their wanton treachery and war crimes.

 

jesuswasamonkey said

Spoken like a true "jesus."

I also cannot support any assasinations. It solves nothing (as there are many just like him waiting in the wings) what are you going to do, assasinate everyone you don't agree with? A Right Wing solution, if I ever saw one.

 

Because we arent going to hand over our sovereignty for witch hunts.

the EU is bigger? in population. Not in military or economy. I am sorry, but the EU is still a long, long way from supplanting the US as a world power. You will have to destroy your little enclave of peace that America created for you in order to do so. But thats your choice. Maybe you guys can learn to be civil without america on your continent. Maybe you can fight your own wars instead of us having to to constantly come to the rescue. Hell, you guys couldnt even handle BOSNIA. That has to be the biggest embarrassment in European history. You couldnt mobilize to fight a war on your own continent! Protect yourself and stop leeching off of america.

 

I don't think assassination would be a good idea, because who knows, Bushy could be a cool guy in real life (meaning when he's not in office and wearing those square-shouldered suits) but I doubt it. He's been corrupted. Either way, everyone has the right to live. Even dickwad leaders.

When I first learned that the Electoral College existed, I was appalled because schools had been brainwashing me into thinking that "one vote can make a difference!" Assholes. They take our right to vote and twist it so it becomes a trivial matter. *sigh*

Yeah, but anyway, PROTEST is definitely better than assassination (haha, I, being rather immature and easily amused, just realised that the word "ass" occurs twice in "assassination". wow.). I must write that scathing letter that I have been meaning to write to some higher-up. Not the president. I wrote to him once when I was 10 YEARS OLD and bitched at him about something I didn't even know shit about, and all I got in return was some stupid generic letter to kids, saying stuff like "KEEP READING!"... grr.