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By Harry Throssell, published 6/2/2007Democracy is another casualty of the Iraq War: Gerhard Schroeder’s address to the survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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"Democracy is another casualty of this war."
How does one take any article seriously that leads with such horrible use of political misdirection and out right lies.
The United States presidential election of 2004 was held on Election Day, Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican candidate George Walker Bush, the incumbent President of the United States, was reelected over Democratic candidate John Kerry, the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Foreign policy was the dominant theme throughout the election campaign, particularly Bush's conduct of the War on Terrorism and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
As in the presidential election of 2000, voting controversies and concerns of irregularities emerged during and after the vote. The winner was not determined until the following day, when Kerry decided not to dispute Bush's narrow win in the state of Ohio. The state held enough electoral votes to determine the winner of the presidency.
Bush received about 51 percent of the votes cast, making him the first presidential candidate to win a majority of the popular vote since his father George H. W. Bush in the presidential election of 1988.
And democracy was not a casualty of the war. Social freedoms in many countries have taken a beating due to Islamic militant terrorism. Especially post 9/11. It wasn't just the planes being hijacked and weaponized while still loaded with innocent people. They were also purposefully crashed into sky-scrappers full of innocent people. Then there was the attacks on the military via the internet, cyber attacks. And more attempts made at airports, etc. etc.
Cyberspace has become a whole new theater of warfare. Internet safety and security exceeds personal computing and johnny and jannie visiting porn sites or spam mail.
Associating NAZI Germany and playing on the Jewish Holocaust to reference a passing P.S. to David Hicks isn't just immoral it's outrageous.
I'm honestly surprised the editors of OLO published this article as it is.