Bush admits spreading democracy will take time

[deminks]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Establishing new democratic regimes around the world will take time and will be marked by periods of difficulties and confusion, President George W. Bush warned.

"Almost every new democracy has gone through a period of challenge and confusion," Bush was to say at the International Republican Institute, according to a transcript of the speech distributed in advance by the White House.

Bush was to announce the creation of a new Active Response Corps made up of US government employees who can deploy quickly to crisis situations around the world.

"One of the lessons we learned from our experience in
Iraq is that, while military personnel can be rapidly deployed anywhere in the world, the same is not true of US government civilians," the president pointed out.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050518/pl_afp/usbushpolitics_050518230456

Does anyone else wonder what exactly is the Active Response Corps?

[Kurovski]

1. It'll take as long as it takes

to suck the ME dry of crude, and not a day sooner.

[Solly Mack]

2. reeks of Negroponte

[LaurenG]

3. Maybe he could practice a little democracy

here at home so he can get some experience before he tries it on some other country.

[kliljedahl]

4. Active Response Corps

Here's a site, PDF document, didn't read it, first I've heard of it


http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/37564.pdf



Keith’s Barbeque Central

[deminks]

11. Thanks for the link.

I will read it fully later. I had not heard of this either, the link is dated in October 2004.

[catnhatnh]

16. I just read it...and it's scary shit....

....lays out plans to "stabilize and reconstruct" "failed" states POST-CONFLICT!!! Further forsees "2-3 concurrent" efforts lasting 5-10 years...So NO-Iraq is not the end of their ambitions...Funny how many new government departments and offices we have that no ones ever heard of...I thought Repubs wanted to REDUCE the federal government...Read this stuff!!!

[kliljedahl]

18. I intend to

But leaving for our DU Meet Up group shortly.


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[politicaholic]

6. They quickly survey the country for Walmart and resort possibilities...

then they begin the manditory strip malling and bill boarding that is the foundation of democracy then they haul in the big guns...McDonalds, Starbucks, Pottary Barn, and TGI Fridays with a 12 hour "new democracy" happy hour.

You need to get those countries all America-ed up much faster than we did Iraq.

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[oneighty]

12. But Majority do not rule.

as long as there are two senators per state with one electoral vote each regardless of population. That is not majority rule.

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[oneighty]

19. But the senate majority

does not represent the majority of the American people.

Yes I would support one man one vote nation wide.

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[cire4]

8. Especially when he supports anti-democratic regimes....

Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, all the right-wing parties in Latin America....need I go on??

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[Mr_Spock]

9. Yeah, there are still 1,000,000,000,000 more people he needs to MURDER

Fuch Bush and the plastic horse he plays with at night.

[KansDem]

10. Are you telling the truth this time, George?

Or is this yet another example of your lying.

The only intelligence problem you have, George, is in the space between your ears!

[Deja Q]

14. There is only two things he's spreading:

1. You can find this one in a toilet, assuming the previous user didn't flush it.

2. Death.

[regnaD kciN]

17. Yep. It'll take at least...

...until January 20, 2009.

;-)

[Gregorian]

20. He's only fooling the fools

What a dipshit.

Democracy, or else. Sort of like the Socratic method with a sledge hammer. Yeah, it works. But you lose half your students. And usually the best ones.

[Zorra]

21. Bush is the Karl Marx of fascism -

In the theory of Bushmunism, first a revolutionary dictatorship of the corporations must be established in a democratic country before democracy can come into being.

Unfortunately, in Bushmunism, the revolutionary dictatorship of the corporations is expected to last at least 10,000 years before it evolves into democracy.

The former US democracy is right now in the early stages of Bush's "revolutionary dictatorship of the corporations".

[driver8]

22. I wonder when democracy will reach the United States?? I

can't wait for that! Just think...fair elections, free speech...it will be great!

Go Shrub!

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. That definitely sounds like a threat.

[applegrove]

24. Especially when it only occured to neocons in 1992! That slows it

down quite a bit don't it!

The rest of us Liberals were there a long time ago.

[devilgrrl]

25. Yeah, it took us a few hundred years before women and blacks could vote...

why, we have all the time in the world! :sarcasm:

[chlamor]

26. Bush Proposes Special Corps to Aid New Democracies

Bush Proposes Corps to Aid New Democracies

Thursday May 19, 2005 1:46 AM

By DEB RIECHMANN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush, seeking to put muscle behind a promise to support young democracies, said Wednesday the administration is creating a special corps of federal workers that will deploy quickly to help foreign governments in crisis.

Citing the lengthy and difficult task of setting up the U.S.-run occupation government in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster, Bush is proposing $100 million next year for a new conflict response fund and $24 million for a new Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization in the State Department. That office will coordinate U.S. government efforts to support emerging democracies, with the new Active Response Corps of foreign and civil service officers as a crucial tool, Bush said.

<snip>

``We are seeing the rise of a new generation whose hearts burn for freedom - and they will have it,'' Bush said.

<snip>

The administration has spent $4.6 billion over more than four years supporting democratic change and will increasingly focus future funding on programs to help new democracies after elections are over. Bush also promised that military forces will be rebalanced with an eye toward making them more effective in helping societies move from war and despotism to freedom and democracy, in part by adding military police and civil affairs specialists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5015734,00.html

[Horse with no Name]

27. Unreal.

More waste and jobs for his wealthy accomplices.
Why not keep that money at home--our democracy is in worse shape than anyone elses in the worlds.

[librechik]

28. I got an idea! We could call it the Peace Corps!

dumbass wants to erase everthing Democrats invented and reclaim the idea for himself (except he doesn't actually DO anything, except tear things down.) Another unfunded mandate to make himself Look Good while accomplishing nothing

[Coastie for Truth]

29. What will its focus be?

1. Peace Corps, Habitat for Humanity, Physicians W/out Borders - Not this President.

2. Military Civil Affairs, Engineers - Maybe.

3. Infantry, Artillery, Armored, Military Police, Combat Engineers, Military Intelligence - Yeah. Just like Iraq - but with a few more "Civil Affairs" and "Engineers" assets to give them a veneer or patina of rebuilders. Yeah. That's it - like the French Foreign Legion -shades of DienBienPhu and Algiers.

[jimshoes]

31. Not to mention

this corp of civil engineers and assorted bureaucrats will be as welcome in these fledgeling democracies as we are in Iraq. And that's going really uhm, awful.

[stepnw1f]

30. Non-Story... Move Along (nt)

[Cha]

32. Fuck bush and his damn lies..

his ilk is stripping the American People of their Democracy..or haven't they caught on to that yet?

And I don't mean DUers and the ones who know cnn is a propoganda machine!

[bunny planet]

33. Hasn't taken him very long to get rid of it over here though.

He's accomplished dismantling Democracy in record time.

[aion]

34. The real question is...does their Flag patch insignia have velcro backing?

?

[bennywhale]

35. Hang on. So what he's saying is the military can be deployed on mass to

a country quicker than a couple of fucking diplomats?

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so scary.

Bombing stuff is easy its the talking that we find difficult. Thats the gist of this shit.