There’s a widely-shared perception out there that goes something like this: When America does something, it’s right.
It’s an important concept to grasp, because America has done things that are wrong, even criminal on a massive scale. Yet when we look at those things, we judge them to be right.
The invasion and continuing continuing occupation Iraq, against the will of its government and people, would be judged a crime if done by any country but the United States. And it’s not that we are insensitive to criminal behavior. We easily saw that Iraq was wrong to invade Kuwait in 1990, and Soviets doing Afghanistan in 1980. President Bush condemned Russia for its actions in South Ossetia last month, saying “bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.” Even the guy who who did the big wrong, the one who ordered the criminal invasion of Iraq, can spot criminal behavior when the Russians do it.
But he’s operating on a solid and widely accepted premise: When America does something, it’s right.
Whoever this guy Montana Headlines is is having a nice time with me because I compared the Bush Doctrine to the crimes for which Nazis were hanged after World War II. There’s even something larger at stake, a Nuremberg Principle, which is the idea that if an act is criminal, all that follows that act is criminal. Therefore, Nazi and Japanese officers were judged to be culpable for war crimes committed in the wake of their invasions even though they were hundreds of miles removed from those crimes. Japanese generals were hanged for atrocities committed by soldiers in the Philippines even though they didn’t even know the atrocities were going on. They started it all, and were therefore judged responsible.
George W. Bush launched an illegal invasion of a sovereign state based on false evidence and a massive propaganda campaign. As a result of that invasion, hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions more have fled the country, and 4,000 American soldiers have perished too. He is personally responsible for every one of those deaths.
There’s a high principle at stake here – the Nuremberg Principle: When a crime is committed, all that follows rests on the shoulders of those who committed the crime. George W. Bush is a war criminal, and ought to face justice.
Maybe that’s why he bought land in Paraguay – he’s planning on hiding out when the charges come down. South America has long been a hideout for war criminals. There’s no extradition from Paraguay.
Footnote: To complete the circle, Nuremberg itself was farcical because the Allies only prosecuted crimes committed by Germany and Japan. If the U.S. or Britain did massive bombing of cities with no military objective, then such an action was justified because … we did it. When America does something, it’s right.
Piece of Mindful 
Might is right.
Grow up and stop making a public fool out of yourself, Trotsky.
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You’d make a fine little Nazi general.
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Might *is* right applies only only in one case, and that is the case of ultimate timeless might. So it would be very easy to say that God *is* right, for that is the only ultimate timeless might.
So Chuckles 11, what would God have to say about American arrogance, pride and violence against our fellow man?
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You lefty hypocrites crack me up. When your writing is not totally garbled by your dysfunctional mental state, a person of average reading ability easily discerns the Judeo-Christian morality that suffuses all your arguments.
Look at Trotsky. He’s on his high moral horse, raving on about justice and judgment. How did he get way up there? Why, he just boosted himself up with the Ten Commandments, that’s all. Oh, sure, he’d never admit it, being a good comrade atheist and all that. But that’s where he’s coming from; that’s the basis for his moral posturing.
And now we have Wulfgar, another lefty hypocrite and dysfunctional thinker. I would be inclined to cut him some slack, knowing that his brain was addled by too many undergraduate courses in philosophy, where he came to believe that babbling was actually a sign of intelligence. But, no, he is just another lefty hypocrite, falling back on his Judeo-Christian morality.
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Woe is me! I am so ashamed of my Judeo-Christian morality! Heh.
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Checker – I draw my morality from the Nuremberg Tribunal – they tried, as best they were able doing victor’s justice, to summarize what we had learned through the end of World War II. You say Judeo-Christian – I say post-apocalypse.
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I “spell-Check[er]ed” the so-called Ten Commandments for “Might is right” and received prompts such as: “Ignore all” or “Add to dictionary.” I also found: “You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.”
I therefore take it (Judeo-Christianly speaking) that anyone, politician or otherwise, male and/or female, or any combination of the two or more, who invokes the name of “God” as testifying to the legitimacy of his or her particular political beliefs, are in terminal violation of the so-called Ten Commandments.
There are other minor issues to be considered in this context, such as: You shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor; you shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
According to the so-called Ten Commandments, then, no one — male or female, ox or donkey, pig or jackass, in any combination (lipsticked or otherwise) — can be considered sanctified as “electable” to public or private office and remain in accord with the sanctity of “the Lord your God.”
Which brings us to the notable fact that “the Lord your God” of the so-called Ten Commandments has nothing whatsoever to do with a Galilean zealot nicknamed “Jesus” who was neither born, dead, nor raised from the dead when the so-called Ten Commandments were composed and orchestrated by a committee of beltway-like priestly political scribes in what once was called Babylonia, but which today is paraphrased in the so-called Western world as the “Middle East.”
Think “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” or Iraq if you would like to mine the archaeological origins of the so-called Ten Commandments; then saunter from those ancient digs to today’s, and you might find that “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is a more appropriate literary model of contemporary politics than any so-called “Ten Commandments.”
Don’t believe it? Film at eleven!
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Bush (with CIA help) will be running drugs, oil, water, anything to keep him out of the U.S. and clear of an indictment for any number of crimes. Sanctuary cities are so passe. The New World Order demands santuary countries to harbor immigrants fleeing prosecution for war crimes, fraud, corruption and other human rights abuses.
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