Originally posted by TConwell
2. I wonder if the person who EDITED that video has anything feelings towards voting, oh I don't know ... Democratic? What a moron -- and using that as a source to make your point? Well, it might as well have been you that created that video.
I think i might be uniquely qualified to respond to this since I am in fact the one who did edit this video.
I was raised Republican. When I was in middle school I read a book called "Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater and it changed my life. I began volunteering on campaigns in High School and was told by the Republican National Commiteewoman for my state that she would have me in Washington by the time I was 30. I went to college as a Political Science major planning on pursuing a degree in foreign relations. I still carry on my key ring a presidential key chain from the first President Bush. My Presidential voting record is Dole, Bush, and Bush. I am a registered Republican and will be voting in the Republican primary this year. My hope is that I am given the opportunity to vote Republican in the general.
The fact is that the Republican Party as represented by Bush and 7 of the 8 candidates running is not the Republican Party I was raised to believe in. There is no fiscal conservatism when a Republican President and Republican Congress increase the national debt by 30%. The Federal Government has grown to irrational proportions. Instead of protecting the individual from government, we have the patriot act. Instead of the party that won the cold war through strength we have become the party that cries wolf to invade countries that have no Air Force, Navy, and no weapons of mass destruction.
The Republican Party's campaign slogan has become clear, "Vote for Us of Islamo-Facists will come here and kill your children." Ignore the subtitles, that is very clearly what Huckabee is saying. I was not the one who talked about "eradicating" people in that clip, Gov Huckabee was. The America I believe in eradicates disease, famine, genocide, but it does not eradicate people based on their beliefs.
The secret the this slogan working and not being pointed out as the most disgusting use of fear mongering ever is simple. Islam teaches people to hate us because we are free and therefore it is their moral obligation to kill us. This absolves us of all guilt and allows us to carry out wars against people who never attacked us and had no capability to.
This ignores of course the fact that we have given the Middle East plenty of reason to hate us. We (the US and Great Britain) have occupied parts of the Middle East through force since the end of WWI. We have removed Democratically elected leaders and replaced them with puppet dictators. We have had our troops in Mecca and Medina and out Navy in the Gulf for years. We have interfered in regional affairs by supporting one or both sides in armed conflicts. Our greatest enemies in the region (Hussein and Bin Laden) were at one time our strongest allies. The money Bin Laden used to organize Al Quaeda and the weapons we faced in the first gulf war in fact came from us.
They don't hate us because we are free. They hate us because we feel entitled to enforce our will on their lives. They hate us because we have killed their friends, neighbors, and family. Estimates now sit at about 500,000 Iraqis killed. That is slightly less than 2% of their population. We occupy their country and police their streets. At first we were greeted as liberators. Now they just want us to leave. We have told them we brought them democracy, but their voice is ignored by us. These people have been pushed to their limits. How many years would it take for a foreign country to occupy your streets before you took up arms to fight? How many of your neighbors would have to die before you responded? If you did, would you be a patriot or a terrorist? I agree their are radicals that hate America, but occupying a country for 6 years only makes it easier to recruit. We are breeding our enemy with every day we are there.
They aren't "Islamo-Facists" they are humans. They want a better life for themselves and their children just like we do. They don't want to kill us anymore than we want to kill them. Their leaders are demagogues, but they don't represent the mindset of the average person trying to get through the day anymore than Mike Huckabee in this speech represents the preoccupation of the average American. Stereotyping Muslims by the words of Bin Laden or the President of Iran makes no more sense than stereotyping Christians by the actions of Fred Phelps.
I can understand you taking exception to my editing, but listen to the speech. Close your eyes, don't read what I wrote. The demagoguery and fear mongering is still easy to see. Mike Huckabee should be ashamed of himself and so should the Republican Party. This is the politics of fear of the worst kind. I just tried to make it a little easier to see.
Nothing I have said here is the stuff on fiction or conspiracy theory. I will gladly support anything I have said with references to those who want a discussion.
If you are curious about who I endorse (if it isn't pretty obvious) and how I went from dressing as "Ronbo" (the political cartoon that was Reagan combined with Rambo) to voting for the only conservative in the race here is a nice video.
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