America, the Beautiful

[winterbadger]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402321.html

So, basically, we're in favour of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes; we don't want to talk about the Millenium Development Goals--how to sell things to people more cheaply is more important than ameliorating poverty and disease and starvation; and we think that what the world really needs is more and better nuclear weapons.

There are times my government makes me sick.

No, let's not kid ourselves. There are very few times that my government does *not* make me sick.

Comments

[incursus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, unfortunately our government can be just as shitty too. It's not normally quite as blatant (even though Tony Blair did get caught lying to the British people over Iraq, and still somehow managed to get back in), however sneaky underhanded shittiness can be a lot worse.