The car..............headlights........... it is blue!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, February 11, 2007
The Race (Amazing Race it seems!!) Not Updated!
As a biomedical science student, and having seniors, it is no doubt that me (junior) is
subjected to eternal torture(orientation)!
The day was 7th February..Race day!!
After Chem Lecture, we all proceed to our own destination!
Me, Henry , Sylass, Kimberlyn, Ying Fei, and (To be updated soon!) when to AC to makan!
Not knowing what lies ahead of us, someone of us refuse to eat!!(A decision i think, if i neglect, i would not be alive to add this post)
There were red, yellow, orange, purple, green and blue group where one group has about 6-9 people.I was in the Yellow group! And yes.. being the only guy in the group, i was made group leader with no argument at all.
It seems that, there aren't anymore democratic society in this world anymore(Joking!!).
Its okie, i don't know mind... But, being the leader with 8 other girls?...GIRLS?? (you know i don't work well with girls!!)
Well, at 10am, everyone in the biomedical science student assemble at the parking lot in Taylor's.
After having my shirt soak in what seems to the onions and orange water(smelly...really smelly...), each group member was given an egg to be taken care off and a clue to the next check point.
Our First Clue(1st Check point)
Red,Blue,Green and Purple.
One of this is the odd one.
*something**something*..sweet tooth.
******.. makes best cake and pastries.
Hwei Ming says: I think it is in bakers cottage la..(WRONG!!)
Knowing that there are over 5 bakery in SS15, I took my group to Bakers Cottage.. and there was nothing there.. BLANK!!
After that, *CHEAT*...*can not tell!!*
We start walking over to Secret Recipe..
God knows what was on my mind, i had this very bad feeling that i left something.. what the heck is it?
*It was a little yellow card, 7x5 cm wide, Marshall card where we have to collect all the signature*
My fucking god.. where the hell is it??
I ran back to Taylor's, following every trail i walk pass(waste of time).. and found it in the middle of the road with all the tire marks on it!!
Tired and exhausted after searching all the area, i went back to my group, which was waiting for me at Secret Recipe already! On the way there, hahaha.. believe it or not, i see Henry's face covered in flour begging for water.. :)
*phew* found it!! gave the card to the Marshall, and there, our first task for the first checkpoints begin.
Task for the first Checkpoint
we have to eat half a water Mellon in 20sec!!
*What the fuck!!* being the only guy and 8 other girls..haha..to my knowledge, girl's don't eat much!(expect Sait Yie!!)
I don't really know who ate the water melon in my group, but, i would say, thank you for not hesitating in helping!! I'm proud of you guys!!
after failing to finish the water melon(including me!!.. :p )
we had to retrieve the word T.A.Y.L.O.R.S from a bucket filled with corn starch, green colouring and flour!
Somehow, father luck wasn't at my side, everyone slip of paper that i retrieve in the SLIM was written WRONG!!!
After much luck testing, eye testing, and luck testing again, we finally arrange the word TAYLOR'S in order and earn our clue!
We took off to success(the restaurant) immediately! as the clue was so so related to success!
so, from Secret recipe, we hike our way to Success..
and when i was around peppercorn, i had this same feeling that i forgot something..what heck is it??
FUCK for the second time!! it was the bloody yellow paper again!!
I started running back to Secret Recipe again and back to success. To be honest, my legs felt like it was coming off!!
In success, we were suppose to pick up an item and give it to the Marshall..
We took the paper..for god knows what the heck reason, we took the paper..
Suddenly,"Give me 10 valid user of the item that you just pick out and after that make out a song for the item!"
ok..ok...
WHAT THE HECK is a PAPER GOOD FOR OTHER THEN WRITING on it??
Origami, Table Stub, tissue(eww...), calk holder, oil blotter(super ew...), straw(???),blah blah...
After that, we sang a song..(not talking about)
Then, after that, we got our well deserve 3rd checkpoint clue.
1 thing for sure, i should just have ate the chili padi, and got the answer instead of cracking brain trying to get the location!!
It was over the ADP playground near Sait Yie's Area.
We all when over there, and we was what we had never expected!! GREEN team..
Believe it not, with all that *leaving things behind* event, we were early!!! (wau!!)
Task for Checkpoint3
Remove the apple from the bucket filled with water with only your mouth.
Take the stick after that, turn 10 round and run over the a plate filled with flour and remove the chili with your mouth!
Simple..but quite hard if you got sharp senses!!(spinning part)
And, believe it or not!! We score 100/100 for it!! We finish way early compared to the earlier groups!!
WAU!!!
Got our next clue location (market)
when there, played hockey..with balloons.. quite fun.. but.. not fun with the entire market people staring at us!!
Got our next Clue(TBS)
When there, took picture..because we are so lar early, we had time to chill!!!
At this station, we had to remove 45 sweets from basin of flour!!
What the fuck.. flour again!!
ok...well.. we did it in a nick of time!! finish it..and begone with the flour!!
I had flour in my mouth(freaking dried!!) nose, ears, hair, shirt and eye!!
I have flour for my tahi hidung. Flour for my Tahi mata!! haha...
Gotten our next clue, Taylor's College!!
Just right behind the cafeteria, we our next task.
Remove 20 choc chips from a plate of flour! ( fucking hell...flour again!!)
this was no ordinary flour.. it was the freaking MURUKU flour!( it is seriously bitter!! )
YUCK!!!!
After the task, we found out that we were freaking 1/2 hours earlier!~
yay!! we can win this!! That was what i tot!!
Sadly, we were put on whole!
We all sat at the Cafeteria, smelly, hungry, tired, and bored.. and to top it up, the entire cafeteria people was looking at us.
Green light was up, and GO!!! RUN!! RUN!! RUN!! RUN to My place!!!
Sadly.. when we have arrive, the red team was already there.. And heck they look like they are there for ages already..
:(
its ok.. Second Ain't that bad.. :)
What really surprise me this time was, heck, i'm one guy and there are 8 girls in my team. 8 excuses maker! 8 not so physically fit people(compared to a guy)!
and we wasn't the last!! not to mention that we wasted heck lots of time with the freaking yellow paper!! 2nd.........it ain't that bad!!
1st Red
2nd Yellow
3rd Orange
4th Purple
5th Green
6th Blue
After the 3.5 hour race, we took of to the cafeteria for food!!
the end..
Remarks!!
I want to thank my group mate, for going through this as a group!
Thank you for keeping up the pace and not breaking down in the middle of the journey!
You guys are great and to me, you guys are in the first place (I still think red cheated!!) :)
Orange team! thank you guys for the *ahem* tips.. which, indirectly helped us alot!!
Thanks henry and silas!! Love ya all alot!!
Green team, i never knew you guys wouldn't be the last team.. and i say i'm sorry to think it that way..
but, yea.. thanks for the brief chat when we cross path.. it really takes my mind of tiredness..
thank you all people who helped me and my group out!
Thank you!!
********************************
Things that i heard along the way..
"Why are all the girls chasing over 1 guy???"
"Oh man.. we were the last group.. and we were so last and we made the first group felt like they are at the top"
"hip hip horray!!"
"I'm damn tired!!"
"Water plz!!"
"Ew........................."
"so fast together de arr?"
subjected to eternal torture(orientation)!
The day was 7th February..Race day!!
After Chem Lecture, we all proceed to our own destination!
Me, Henry , Sylass, Kimberlyn, Ying Fei, and (To be updated soon!) when to AC to makan!
Not knowing what lies ahead of us, someone of us refuse to eat!!(A decision i think, if i neglect, i would not be alive to add this post)
There were red, yellow, orange, purple, green and blue group where one group has about 6-9 people.I was in the Yellow group! And yes.. being the only guy in the group, i was made group leader with no argument at all.
It seems that, there aren't anymore democratic society in this world anymore(Joking!!).
Its okie, i don't know mind... But, being the leader with 8 other girls?...GIRLS?? (you know i don't work well with girls!!)
Well, at 10am, everyone in the biomedical science student assemble at the parking lot in Taylor's.
After having my shirt soak in what seems to the onions and orange water(smelly...really smelly...), each group member was given an egg to be taken care off and a clue to the next check point.
Our First Clue(1st Check point)
Red,Blue,Green and Purple.
One of this is the odd one.
*something**something*..sweet tooth.
******.. makes best cake and pastries.
Hwei Ming says: I think it is in bakers cottage la..(WRONG!!)
Knowing that there are over 5 bakery in SS15, I took my group to Bakers Cottage.. and there was nothing there.. BLANK!!
After that, *CHEAT*...*can not tell!!*
We start walking over to Secret Recipe..
God knows what was on my mind, i had this very bad feeling that i left something.. what the heck is it?
*It was a little yellow card, 7x5 cm wide, Marshall card where we have to collect all the signature*
My fucking god.. where the hell is it??
I ran back to Taylor's, following every trail i walk pass(waste of time).. and found it in the middle of the road with all the tire marks on it!!
Tired and exhausted after searching all the area, i went back to my group, which was waiting for me at Secret Recipe already! On the way there, hahaha.. believe it or not, i see Henry's face covered in flour begging for water.. :)
*phew* found it!! gave the card to the Marshall, and there, our first task for the first checkpoints begin.
Task for the first Checkpoint
we have to eat half a water Mellon in 20sec!!
*What the fuck!!* being the only guy and 8 other girls..haha..to my knowledge, girl's don't eat much!(expect Sait Yie!!)
I don't really know who ate the water melon in my group, but, i would say, thank you for not hesitating in helping!! I'm proud of you guys!!
after failing to finish the water melon(including me!!.. :p )
we had to retrieve the word T.A.Y.L.O.R.S from a bucket filled with corn starch, green colouring and flour!
Somehow, father luck wasn't at my side, everyone slip of paper that i retrieve in the SLIM was written WRONG!!!
After much luck testing, eye testing, and luck testing again, we finally arrange the word TAYLOR'S in order and earn our clue!
We took off to success(the restaurant) immediately! as the clue was so so related to success!
so, from Secret recipe, we hike our way to Success..
and when i was around peppercorn, i had this same feeling that i forgot something..what heck is it??
FUCK for the second time!! it was the bloody yellow paper again!!
I started running back to Secret Recipe again and back to success. To be honest, my legs felt like it was coming off!!
In success, we were suppose to pick up an item and give it to the Marshall..
We took the paper..for god knows what the heck reason, we took the paper..
Suddenly,"Give me 10 valid user of the item that you just pick out and after that make out a song for the item!"
ok..ok...
WHAT THE HECK is a PAPER GOOD FOR OTHER THEN WRITING on it??
Origami, Table Stub, tissue(eww...), calk holder, oil blotter(super ew...), straw(???),blah blah...
After that, we sang a song..(not talking about)
Then, after that, we got our well deserve 3rd checkpoint clue.
1 thing for sure, i should just have ate the chili padi, and got the answer instead of cracking brain trying to get the location!!
It was over the ADP playground near Sait Yie's Area.
We all when over there, and we was what we had never expected!! GREEN team..
Believe it not, with all that *leaving things behind* event, we were early!!! (wau!!)
Task for Checkpoint3
Remove the apple from the bucket filled with water with only your mouth.
Take the stick after that, turn 10 round and run over the a plate filled with flour and remove the chili with your mouth!
Simple..but quite hard if you got sharp senses!!(spinning part)
And, believe it or not!! We score 100/100 for it!! We finish way early compared to the earlier groups!!
WAU!!!
Got our next clue location (market)
when there, played hockey..with balloons.. quite fun.. but.. not fun with the entire market people staring at us!!
Got our next Clue(TBS)
When there, took picture..because we are so lar early, we had time to chill!!!
At this station, we had to remove 45 sweets from basin of flour!!
What the fuck.. flour again!!
ok...well.. we did it in a nick of time!! finish it..and begone with the flour!!
I had flour in my mouth(freaking dried!!) nose, ears, hair, shirt and eye!!
I have flour for my tahi hidung. Flour for my Tahi mata!! haha...
Gotten our next clue, Taylor's College!!
Just right behind the cafeteria, we our next task.
Remove 20 choc chips from a plate of flour! ( fucking hell...flour again!!)
this was no ordinary flour.. it was the freaking MURUKU flour!( it is seriously bitter!! )
YUCK!!!!
After the task, we found out that we were freaking 1/2 hours earlier!~
yay!! we can win this!! That was what i tot!!
Sadly, we were put on whole!
We all sat at the Cafeteria, smelly, hungry, tired, and bored.. and to top it up, the entire cafeteria people was looking at us.
Green light was up, and GO!!! RUN!! RUN!! RUN!! RUN to My place!!!
Sadly.. when we have arrive, the red team was already there.. And heck they look like they are there for ages already..
:(
its ok.. Second Ain't that bad.. :)
What really surprise me this time was, heck, i'm one guy and there are 8 girls in my team. 8 excuses maker! 8 not so physically fit people(compared to a guy)!
and we wasn't the last!! not to mention that we wasted heck lots of time with the freaking yellow paper!! 2nd.........it ain't that bad!!
1st Red
2nd Yellow
3rd Orange
4th Purple
5th Green
6th Blue
After the 3.5 hour race, we took of to the cafeteria for food!!
the end..
Remarks!!
I want to thank my group mate, for going through this as a group!
Thank you for keeping up the pace and not breaking down in the middle of the journey!
You guys are great and to me, you guys are in the first place (I still think red cheated!!) :)
Orange team! thank you guys for the *ahem* tips.. which, indirectly helped us alot!!
Thanks henry and silas!! Love ya all alot!!
Green team, i never knew you guys wouldn't be the last team.. and i say i'm sorry to think it that way..
but, yea.. thanks for the brief chat when we cross path.. it really takes my mind of tiredness..
thank you all people who helped me and my group out!
Thank you!!
********************************
Things that i heard along the way..
"Why are all the girls chasing over 1 guy???"
"Oh man.. we were the last group.. and we were so last and we made the first group felt like they are at the top"
"hip hip horray!!"
"I'm damn tired!!"
"Water plz!!"
"Ew........................."
"so fast together de arr?"
Sunday, February 4, 2007
What you should not say to god!
Things never to say to GOD, that could send you to hell.
"I'm A Republican"
"why do you allow YOUR faggot pedophile priests to sodomize YOUR children?""
"I would tell you "you suck", but you don't exist in the first place"
"NO"
"Why do you allow people to use your name to promote hate and enrich themselves?"
"i hate you and i love satan"
"I could do a better job, as a fallible human, than you have"
"Let me tell u about a couple of things u really F'ed up on ...."
"Excuse me, you appear to be in my seat"
"Jesus Fuckin' Christ"
"GODdamnit!"
"Did You Fart ?"
"why didn't you make everyone white?"
"why was that lying hypocrite Card. Bernard Law put in charge of 1M Catholics?"
"you don't scare me one f*cking bit"
"How big of an asshole can u really be ....?"
"Does dese pants make my ass look fat?"
"You can just go to Hell!!"
"What in God's Hell?"
"Oh!!! My God"
"couldn't you think of a less painful way for your son to die?"
"oh..my..praveena!!"
Friday, February 2, 2007
American Democracy at war!
War Srategies
Iraq War Strategies under Hitler, Roosevelt or Truman, versus Bush
"I want to compare how a dictator would wage the War in Iraq, versus how US democracy must wage it.''Hwei Ming.
Furthermore, I want to compare how Roosevelt or Truman would wage the war versus how Bush is waging it. There are advantages for a dictator in waging war, but also disadvantages. The same is true for a democracy, and especially for our democracy post Vietnam and post Watergate.Moreover, there is a difference in leadership style between US leaders in WWII and US leaders now.
Hitler
How would Hitler wage the War in Iraq? He would use his own judgment and wield absolute control to effect it. Knowing Hitler, he would use overwhelming force quickly. He would also be aware that Iran and Syria are funding, training, and even sending troops into Iraq, so he would open up fronts against both these countries simultaneously, aiming to crush them and perhaps even take them over. In Iraq, he would confiscate the oil fields and use the revenue to pay for the war effort. He would annihilate neighborhoods that harbored terrorists or insurgents. He would not hesitate to ethnically cleanse either Sunnis or Shias if they continued to be troublemakers.
ResultsWhat would the results be? Hitler sults be? Hitler would probably win the War in Iraq. He would have conquered Iraq by now, and maybe Syria too, and at least reduced Iran's influence in the region, including stopping them from developing nuclear weapons and decimating their army and warlike capabilities.
The disadvantages?
The rest of the world would be building armies and weaponry to oppose him and defeat him eventually. A quiet insurgency would begin building within Iraq, Syria and Iran to one day take their lands back. Knowing Hitler, he would eventually open up too many fronts, and eventually be defeated.
Roosevelt or Truman
How would Roosevelt or Truman wage the War in Iraq? Actually, they would fight much the same way as Hitler, except without the ethnic cleansing, and without the permanent takeover of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Plus, after the war, they would return the oil fields to the Iraqis, and develop a Marshall Plan for that country.
Results
The results? There would be peace in Iraq, and Roosevelt or Truman would then use this as a springboard to forge a peace between Palestine and Israel.
The disadvantages?
You need strong leaders like Roosevelt or Truman to sustain a war effort that could effect such results. Such leaders are rare.
George Bush
How is US democracy waging the War in Iraq under George Bush?
America's Perpetual War Against the Peace Advocates
America always seems to have a large peace contingent. It had anti-war folks before all of our wars. So to enter any war, millions of peaceniks or neutral folks must convert to favoring war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to go to war against Hitler's Germany long before Pearl Harbor, but it took that disaster to mobilize enough Americans to favor the war. Roosevelt used Pearl Harbor to get us into the war, and then used Allied victories, carefully orchestrated propaganda, and the power of the bully pulpit to sustain American fervor for the war, all the way to victory.
Bush Handicaps
George Bush is operating under a number of handicaps compared with Roosevelt and Truman:
First, we are post Vietnam and post Watergate. Many Americans are instinctually anti-war because of the mess of Vietnam. Those same Americans, plus others, are distrustful of their government and leaders because of Watergate.
Second, the perpetual war between congress and the president over who has more power is in a stage where congress is emboldened to tip the scale in their favor. Democrats sense a weakened president, and so are pressing their case for more congressional power and less presidential power.
Third, George Bush has been less than effective in explaining the war to the people. He has not been able, as of late, to overcome the Democratic and some Republican opposition to the war by virtue of the bully pulpit. Part of the reason is that he has had a slow learning curve in giving effective speeches and communications; and part of it is that, until recently, he has not leveled with the American people about the truths of the war.
Fourth, Bush and Cheney et al made crucial strategic and tactical mistakes in Iraq, such as too few troops, not guarding weapons caches, and leaving the Iraqi army unemployed, which set up the inevitability of the insurgency and the failures in the Iraq War.
Fifth, Bush has chosen to fight a politically correct war. For example, he let Muqtada al-Sadr go when he had him cornered, so as not to anger the Shias; he would not attack the enemy in mosques; he was "careful" when going into insurgent strongholds not to harm the neighborhoods nor the "innocent" people harboring the terrorists; and he allowed Maliki to prevent the U.S. from going after Shia insurgents. Literally, George Bush has had the United States walking on eggshells, fighting a "careful," politically correct war.
Sixth, as a result, the War in Iraq has not gone well. Though the U.S. wins every outright battle decisively, we get slaughtered in the covert war, and public opinion continues to increase against the war.
Seventh, the U.S., along with Bush's ineffective championing of the war, is not engaging in any active propaganda war. Admittedly, in the age of the Internet, YouTube, and MySpace, this would be hard to do anyway, but there seems to be no massive educational campaign about why we are fighting and how high the stakes are. We just have one, lone Texas Ranger, who can't communicate well, telling us to trust him on this one.
Conclusions
Hitler
Hitler would have won the War in Iraq by now, hands down. On the other hand, he would have continued his expansionism until he angered so much of the world that they would eventually mass and defeat him, as happened in WWII.
Roosevelt and Truman
Roosevelt and Truman would have won the War in Iraq by now, but they didn't have the handicaps that Bush has. We'd be well on our way to world peace, including in Palestine and Israel, under Roosevelt or Truman.
Bush
In my opinion, Bush was wise to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein. This was a good thing for world peace and the War on Terror. It's too bad the American people don't see this and aren't patient enough to witness the resulting good things that will come from its successful conclusion. Bush is winning the actual war in Iraq, undoubtedly, but has not won the PR nor the propaganda war, and so has lost the hearts and minds of Americans, Iraqis, and the world. Though Bush is winning the battlefield war for control of the territory and assets of Iraq, he is not winning the peace, the battle for law and order in Iraq. Due to military blunders, strategic and tactical, and through fighting a politically correct war, Bush has not been able to quash the nascent civil war and bring peace and security to Iraq. So, as in Vietnam, America is in danger of being driven from Iraq, not by the force of a standing enemy army, but by a deadly insurgency that instills fear, and by the force of public opinion.
Iraq War Strategies under Hitler, Roosevelt or Truman, versus Bush
"I want to compare how a dictator would wage the War in Iraq, versus how US democracy must wage it.''Hwei Ming.
Furthermore, I want to compare how Roosevelt or Truman would wage the war versus how Bush is waging it. There are advantages for a dictator in waging war, but also disadvantages. The same is true for a democracy, and especially for our democracy post Vietnam and post Watergate.Moreover, there is a difference in leadership style between US leaders in WWII and US leaders now.
Hitler
How would Hitler wage the War in Iraq? He would use his own judgment and wield absolute control to effect it. Knowing Hitler, he would use overwhelming force quickly. He would also be aware that Iran and Syria are funding, training, and even sending troops into Iraq, so he would open up fronts against both these countries simultaneously, aiming to crush them and perhaps even take them over. In Iraq, he would confiscate the oil fields and use the revenue to pay for the war effort. He would annihilate neighborhoods that harbored terrorists or insurgents. He would not hesitate to ethnically cleanse either Sunnis or Shias if they continued to be troublemakers.
ResultsWhat would the results be? Hitler sults be? Hitler would probably win the War in Iraq. He would have conquered Iraq by now, and maybe Syria too, and at least reduced Iran's influence in the region, including stopping them from developing nuclear weapons and decimating their army and warlike capabilities.
The disadvantages?
The rest of the world would be building armies and weaponry to oppose him and defeat him eventually. A quiet insurgency would begin building within Iraq, Syria and Iran to one day take their lands back. Knowing Hitler, he would eventually open up too many fronts, and eventually be defeated.
Roosevelt or Truman
How would Roosevelt or Truman wage the War in Iraq? Actually, they would fight much the same way as Hitler, except without the ethnic cleansing, and without the permanent takeover of Iraq, Iran and Syria. Plus, after the war, they would return the oil fields to the Iraqis, and develop a Marshall Plan for that country.
Results
The results? There would be peace in Iraq, and Roosevelt or Truman would then use this as a springboard to forge a peace between Palestine and Israel.
The disadvantages?
You need strong leaders like Roosevelt or Truman to sustain a war effort that could effect such results. Such leaders are rare.
George Bush
How is US democracy waging the War in Iraq under George Bush?
America's Perpetual War Against the Peace Advocates
America always seems to have a large peace contingent. It had anti-war folks before all of our wars. So to enter any war, millions of peaceniks or neutral folks must convert to favoring war. Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to go to war against Hitler's Germany long before Pearl Harbor, but it took that disaster to mobilize enough Americans to favor the war. Roosevelt used Pearl Harbor to get us into the war, and then used Allied victories, carefully orchestrated propaganda, and the power of the bully pulpit to sustain American fervor for the war, all the way to victory.
Bush Handicaps
George Bush is operating under a number of handicaps compared with Roosevelt and Truman:
First, we are post Vietnam and post Watergate. Many Americans are instinctually anti-war because of the mess of Vietnam. Those same Americans, plus others, are distrustful of their government and leaders because of Watergate.
Second, the perpetual war between congress and the president over who has more power is in a stage where congress is emboldened to tip the scale in their favor. Democrats sense a weakened president, and so are pressing their case for more congressional power and less presidential power.
Third, George Bush has been less than effective in explaining the war to the people. He has not been able, as of late, to overcome the Democratic and some Republican opposition to the war by virtue of the bully pulpit. Part of the reason is that he has had a slow learning curve in giving effective speeches and communications; and part of it is that, until recently, he has not leveled with the American people about the truths of the war.
Fourth, Bush and Cheney et al made crucial strategic and tactical mistakes in Iraq, such as too few troops, not guarding weapons caches, and leaving the Iraqi army unemployed, which set up the inevitability of the insurgency and the failures in the Iraq War.
Fifth, Bush has chosen to fight a politically correct war. For example, he let Muqtada al-Sadr go when he had him cornered, so as not to anger the Shias; he would not attack the enemy in mosques; he was "careful" when going into insurgent strongholds not to harm the neighborhoods nor the "innocent" people harboring the terrorists; and he allowed Maliki to prevent the U.S. from going after Shia insurgents. Literally, George Bush has had the United States walking on eggshells, fighting a "careful," politically correct war.
Sixth, as a result, the War in Iraq has not gone well. Though the U.S. wins every outright battle decisively, we get slaughtered in the covert war, and public opinion continues to increase against the war.
Seventh, the U.S., along with Bush's ineffective championing of the war, is not engaging in any active propaganda war. Admittedly, in the age of the Internet, YouTube, and MySpace, this would be hard to do anyway, but there seems to be no massive educational campaign about why we are fighting and how high the stakes are. We just have one, lone Texas Ranger, who can't communicate well, telling us to trust him on this one.
Conclusions
Hitler
Hitler would have won the War in Iraq by now, hands down. On the other hand, he would have continued his expansionism until he angered so much of the world that they would eventually mass and defeat him, as happened in WWII.
Roosevelt and Truman
Roosevelt and Truman would have won the War in Iraq by now, but they didn't have the handicaps that Bush has. We'd be well on our way to world peace, including in Palestine and Israel, under Roosevelt or Truman.
Bush
In my opinion, Bush was wise to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein. This was a good thing for world peace and the War on Terror. It's too bad the American people don't see this and aren't patient enough to witness the resulting good things that will come from its successful conclusion. Bush is winning the actual war in Iraq, undoubtedly, but has not won the PR nor the propaganda war, and so has lost the hearts and minds of Americans, Iraqis, and the world. Though Bush is winning the battlefield war for control of the territory and assets of Iraq, he is not winning the peace, the battle for law and order in Iraq. Due to military blunders, strategic and tactical, and through fighting a politically correct war, Bush has not been able to quash the nascent civil war and bring peace and security to Iraq. So, as in Vietnam, America is in danger of being driven from Iraq, not by the force of a standing enemy army, but by a deadly insurgency that instills fear, and by the force of public opinion.
Silencing Cyberspace??
SILENCING CYBERSPACE - THE FINAL FRONTIER?
This forum is part of a event by the Democratic Action Party (DAP) to promote and protect the freedom of expression by the Malaysian civil society, particularly on the Internet.
As of today, we have the Printing and Publications Act 1984which provides that it is a criminal offense to possess or use a printing press without a licence granted by the Home Affairs Minister. The Minister is given "absolute discretion" in the granting and revocation of licences, which is required to be renewed on a yearly basis.
We do not require such an Act to govern us in the cyberspace. The Bill of Guarantees of the Multimedia Super Corridor project assures us, Malaysians, and the world that there will be no censorship of the Internet.
Hence DAP believes that it is important to protect the civil society's rights to express fair-minded views, opinions and commentaries on the Internet. The cyberspace is arguably Malaysia's final frontier for freedom of expression.
Instead of making veiled threats in the news media or through our legal system, which appears to be increasingly prevalent, to silence the cyberspace, we hope that our Government will play its part to promote responsible freedom of expression on the Internet.
The panel of distinguished speakers for the forum include:
● Mr Yeo Yang Poh, Chairman of the Malaysian Bar Council
● Mr Jeff Ooi, Pioneer Malaysian Blogger
● Ms Sonia Randhawa, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Journalism
● Mr Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader
● Mr Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of DAP
The details of the forum are as follows:
Date: 6 February2007 (Tuesday)
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
We look forward to Malaysian expressing their support to protect the freedom of expression on the Internet at the forum.
Taken from:http://www.dapmalaysia.org/english/2007/bul/bul3229.htm
Dated: 2nd Feb 2006
This forum is part of a event by the Democratic Action Party (DAP) to promote and protect the freedom of expression by the Malaysian civil society, particularly on the Internet.
As of today, we have the Printing and Publications Act 1984which provides that it is a criminal offense to possess or use a printing press without a licence granted by the Home Affairs Minister. The Minister is given "absolute discretion" in the granting and revocation of licences, which is required to be renewed on a yearly basis.
We do not require such an Act to govern us in the cyberspace. The Bill of Guarantees of the Multimedia Super Corridor project assures us, Malaysians, and the world that there will be no censorship of the Internet.
Hence DAP believes that it is important to protect the civil society's rights to express fair-minded views, opinions and commentaries on the Internet. The cyberspace is arguably Malaysia's final frontier for freedom of expression.
Instead of making veiled threats in the news media or through our legal system, which appears to be increasingly prevalent, to silence the cyberspace, we hope that our Government will play its part to promote responsible freedom of expression on the Internet.
The panel of distinguished speakers for the forum include:
● Mr Yeo Yang Poh, Chairman of the Malaysian Bar Council
● Mr Jeff Ooi, Pioneer Malaysian Blogger
● Ms Sonia Randhawa, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Journalism
● Mr Lim Kit Siang, Parliamentary Opposition Leader
● Mr Lim Guan Eng, Secretary-General of DAP
The details of the forum are as follows:
Date: 6 February2007 (Tuesday)
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall
We look forward to Malaysian expressing their support to protect the freedom of expression on the Internet at the forum.
Taken from:http://www.dapmalaysia.org/english/2007/bul/bul3229.htm
Dated: 2nd Feb 2006
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