Non, on peut dire ce qu'on voudra, mais l'exportation armée de la démocratie américaine, c'est du solide.

Hey,
This is a conversation between a father and a son...you will probably understand the reason why US attacked Iraq and how the world functions better after reading
this.

Q: Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?
A: Because they had weapons of mass destruction, honey.

Q: But the inspectors didn't find any weapons of mass destruction.
A: That's because the Iraqis were hiding them.

Q: And that's why we invaded Iraq?
A: Yep. Invasions always work better than inspections.

Q: But after we invaded them, we STILL didn't find any weapons of mass destruction, did we?
A: That's because the weapons are so well hidden. Don't worry, we'll find something, probably right before the 2004 election.

Q: Why did Iraq want all those weapons of mass destruction?
A: To use them in a war, silly.

Q: I'm confused. If they had all those weapons that they planned to use in a war, then why didn't they use any of those weapons when we went to war with them?
A: Well, obviously they didn't want anyone to know they had those weapons,so they chose to die by the thousands rather than defend themselves.

Q: That doesn't make sense Daddy. Why would they choose to die if they had all those big weapons to fight us back with?
A: It's a different culture. It's not supposed to make sense.

Q: I don't know about you, but I don't think they had any of those weapons our government said they did.
A: Well, you know, it doesn't matter whether or not they had those weapons. We had another good reason to invade them anyway.

Q: And what was that?
A: Even if Iraq didn't have weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein was a cruel dictator, which is another good reason to invade another country.

Q: Why? What does a cruel dictator do that makes it OK to invade his country?
A: Well, for one thing, he tortured his own people.

Q: Kind of like what they do in China?
A: Don't go comparing China to Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people work for slave wages in sweatshops to make U.S. corporations richer.

Q: So if a country lets its people be exploited for American corporate
gain, it's a good country, even if that country tortures people?
A: Right.

Q: Why were people in Iraq being tortured?
A: For political crimes, mostly, like criticizing the government. People who criticized the government in Iraq were sent to prison and tortured.

Q: Isn't that exactly what happens in China?
A: I told you, China is different.

Q: What's the difference between China and Iraq?
A: Well, for one thing, Iraq was ruled by the Ba'ath party, while China is Communist.

Q: Didn't you once tell me Communists were bad?
A: No, just Cuban Communists are bad.

Q: How are the Cuban Communists bad?
A: Well, for one thing, people who criticize the government in Cuba are sent to prison and tortured.

Q: Like in Iraq?
A: Exactly.

Q: And like in China, too?
A: I told you, China's a good economic competitor. Cuba, on the other hand, is not.

Q: How come Cuba isn't a good economic competitor?
A: Well, you see, back in the early 1960s, our government passed some laws that made it illegal for Americans to trade or do any business with Cuba until they stopped being Communists and started being capitalists like us.

Q: But if we got rid of those laws, opened up trade with Cuba,and started doing business with them, wouldn't that help the Cubans become capitalists?
A: Don't be a smart-ass.

Q: I didn't think I was being one.
A: Well, anyway, they also don't have freedom of religion in Cuba.

Q: Kind of like China and the @!#$ movement?
A: I told you, stop saying bad things about China. Anyway, Saddam Hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.

Q: What's a military coup?
A: That's when a military general takes over the government of a country by force, instead of holding free elections like we do in the United States.

Q: Didn't the ruler of Pakistan come to power by a military coup?
A: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yeah, he did, but Pakistan is our friend.

Q: Why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is illegitimate?
A: I never said Pervez Musharraf was illegitimate.

Q: Didn't you just say a military general who comes to power by forcibly overthrowing the legitimate government of a nation is an illegitimate leader?
A: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend, because he helped us invade Afghanistan.

Q: Why did we invade Afghanistan?
A: Because of what they did to us on September 11th.

Q: What did Afghanistan do to us on September 11th?
A: Well, on September 11th, nineteen men, fifteen of them Saudi Arabians, hijacked four airplanes and flew three of them into buildings,killing over 3,000 Americans.

Q: So how did Afghanistan figure into all that?
A: Afghanistan was where those bad men trained, under the oppressive rule of the Taliban.

Q: Aren't the Taliban those bad radical Islamics who chopped off people's heads and hands?
A: Yes, that's exactly who they were. Not only did they chop off people's heads and hands, but they oppressed women, too.

Q: Didn't the Bush administration giv e the Taliban 43 million dollars back in May of 2001?
A: Yes, but that money was a reward because they did such a good job fighting drugs.

Q: Fighting drugs?
A: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful in stopping people from growing opium poppies.

Q: How did they do such a good job?
A: Simple. If people were caught growing opium poppies, the Taliban would have their hands and heads cut off.

Q: So, when the Taliban cut off people's heads and hands for growing flowers, that was OK, but not if they cut people's heads and hands off for other reasons?
A: Yes. It's OK with us if radical Islamic fundamentalists cut off people's hands for growing flowers, but it's cruel if they cut off people's hands for stealing bread.

Q: Don't they also cut off people's hands and heads in Saudi Arabia?
A: That's different. Afghanistan was ruled by a tyrannical patriarchy that oppressed women and forced them to wear burqas whenever they were in public, with death by stoning as the penalty for women who did not comply.

Q: Don't Saudi women have to wear burqas in public, too?
A: No, Saudi women merely wear a traditional Islamic body overing.

Q: What's the difference?
A: The traditional Islamic co! vering worn by Saudi women is a modest yet fashionable garment that covers all of a woman's body xcept for her eyes and fingers. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression that covers all of a woman's body except for her eyes
and fingers.

Q: It sounds like the same thing with a different name.
A: Now, don't go comparing Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. The Saudis are our friends.

Q: But I thought you said 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia.
A: Yes, but they trained in Afghanistan.

Q: Who trained them?
A: A very bad man named Osama bin Laden.

Q: Was he from Afghanist! an?
A: Uh, no, he was from Saudi Arabia too. But he was a bad man, a very bad man.

Q: I seem to recall he was our friend once.
A: Only when we helped him and the mujahadeen repel the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back in the 1980s.

Q: Who are the Soviets? Was that the Evil Communist Empire Ronald Reagan talked about?
A: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union broke up in 1990 or there abouts, and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now.

Q: So the Soviets, I mean, the Russians, are now our friends?
A: Well, not really. You see, they were our friends for many years after they stopped being Soviets, bu t then they decided not to support our invasion of Iraq, so we're mad at them now. We're also mad at the French and the Germans because they didn't help us invade Iraqe ither.

Q: So the French and Germans are evil, too?
A: Not exactly evil, but just bad enough that we had to rename French fries and French toast to Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast.

Q: Do we always rename foods whenever another country doesn't do what we want them to do?
A: No, we just do that to our friends. Our enemies, we invade.

Q: But wasn't Iraq one of our friends back in the 1980s?
A: Well, yeah. For a while.

Q: Was Saddam Hussein ruler of Iraq back then?
A: Yes, but at the time he was fighting against Iran, which made him our friend, temporarily.

Q: Why did that make him our friend?
A: Because at that time, Iran was our enemy.

Q: Isn't that when he gassed the Kurds?
A: Yeah, but since he was fighting against Iran at the time, we looked the other way, to show him we were his friend.

Q: So anyone who fights against one of our enemies automatically becomes our friend?
A: Most of the time, yes.

Q: And anyone who fights against one of our friends is automatically an enemy?
A: Sometimes that's true, t! oo. However, if American corporations can profit by selling weapons to both sides at the same time, all the better.

Q: Why?
A: Because war is good for the economy, which meanswar is good for America. Also, since God is on America's side, anyone who opposes war is a godless un-American Communist. Do you understand now why we attacked Iraq?

Q: I think so. We attacked them because God wanted us to,r ight?
A: Yes.

Q: But how did we know God wanted us to attack Iraq?
A: Well, you see, God personally speaks to George W. Bush and tells him what to do.

Q: So basically, what you're saying is that we attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices in his head?
A. Yes! You finally understand how the world works. Now close your eyes, make yourself comfortable, and go to sleep. Good night.

Good night, Daddy.

George Bush invente le "dinar soviétique"

HUDSON (AFP) - Le président américain George W. Bush a fait un nouveau lapsus mercredi lors d'un meeting électoral à Hudson (Wisconsin), en nommant la devise irakienne "dinar soviétique".

M. Bush évoquait une rencontre à la Maison Blanche au printemps dernier avec des Irakiens qui avaient eu les mains amputées sur l'ordre du régime de Saddam Hussein. L'un de ces hommes, un bijoutier, avait été ainsi mutilé après avoir été accusé de se livrer au trafic de devises, a dit le président.

"Il avait vendu du dinar ce jour-là pour acheter une autre devise, des euros ou des dollars, pour pouvoir continuer à fabriquer ses produits. Et le dinar soviétique ayant été dévalué, Saddam Hussein a retiré cet homme de la société pour le punir" a affirmé M. Bush.

Les erreurs de syntaxe et de vocabulaire du président Bush, un républicain, font les choux gras de la presse américaine qui les opposent à la diction précise et au vocabulaire recherché utilisés par son adversaire pour la présidentielle de novembre, le démocrate John Kerry.

Source : Yahoooooo !!

"Pour ce qui est des frappes préventives, nous l'avons déjà dit, mais je le répète: nous entreprendrons tout pour liquider les bases terroristes dans n'importe quelle région" du monde, a déclaré le chef d'état-major de l'armée, le général Iouri Balouïevski, en précisant qu'il ne s'agissait pas pour autant d'utiliser l'arme nucléaire.

POPLAR BLUFF, Missouri (AP) - La langue de George W. Bush a encore fourché. En pleine campagne pour sa réélection, le président américain a regretté la multiplication des procès intentés aux médecins qui empêche des gynécologues compétents de "pratiquer leur amour avec les femmes".

"Nous devons faire quelque chose contre ces procès frivoles qui augmentent le coût de notre couverture maladie et qui poussent de bons docteurs à fermer leur cabinet", a déclaré lundi George W. Bush dans un discours devant plusieurs milliers de partisans à Poplar Bluff, dans le sud-est du Missouri.

"Nous avons un problème en Amérique. Trop de bons docteurs quittent leur profession. Trop de gynécologues obstétriciens sont empêchés de pratiquer leur amour avec les femmes à travers le pays", a-t-il déploré.
Source : yahooooo

Les informations au sujet des otages français et de leur chauffeur syrien étaient confuses mercredi matin. Un Français que la télévision Al-Arabiya a présenté comme un membre de la délégation de Paris qui suit l'affaire des otages français en Irak a affirmé à la chaîne, mardi soir, qu'il avait vu les deux hommes et était parvenu avec les ravisseurs à un accord pour leur libération.

"Je peux confirmer qu'ils sont tous les deux en bonne santé, psychologiquement (aussi). Après les avoir rencontrés et avoir rencontré le groupe représentant la délégation (française), nous avons pu parvenir (à un accord) sur deux choses", a dit cet homme contacté par téléphone à Bagdad et identifié par la chaîne satellitaire comme étant Philippe Brett. "La première : la libération de Christian (Chesnot) et Georges (Malbrunot). Et la seconde : la remise d'une cassette audio dans laquelle ils annonceraient personnellement leur prochaine libération", a-t-il dit, selon une traduction arabe de ses déclarations.

Le ministère des affaires étrangères français a cependant indiqué peu après ne "pas avoir connaissance d'un accord" pour la libération des deux otages. Interrogée sur la présence à Bagdad d'un émissaire français chargé d'intervenir pour faire libérer Christian Chesnot et Georges Malbrunot, une porte-parole du Quai d'Orsay a répondu : "Nous ne sommes pas au courant d'une mission d'un émissaire qui aurait rencontré les otages."
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