President Bush said Sunday that Iran is threatening the security of the world, and that the United States and Arab allies must join together to confront the danger ''before it's too late.''
Read the rest of the article if you have the stomach for it. The level of hypocrisy being spewed by this deranged leader of the free world is both remarkable and mind-boggling.
Bush spoke at the Emirates Palace, at an opulent, gold-trimmed hotel where a suite goes for $2,450 a night. Built at a cost of $3 billion, the hotel is a kilometer long from end to end and has a 1.3 kilometer white sand beach -- every grain of it imported from Algeria, according to Steven Pike, a spokesman at the U.S. Embassy here.
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In renewing his ''Freedom Agenda'' -- Bush's grand ambition to seed democracy around the globe -- the president declared: ''We know from experience that democracy is the only system of government that yields lasting peace and stability.''
Yet he was speaking about democracy in a deeply undemocratic country, the Emirates, where an elite of royal rulers makes virtually all the decisions. Large numbers of foreign resident workers have few legal or human rights, including no right to citizenship and no right to protest working conditions.
Some human rights groups have accused the Emirates of tolerating virtual indentured servitude, where workers from poor countries like Sri Lanka are forced to work to pay off debts to employers, and have their passports seized so they can't leave.
You may now resume your normal everyday lives. Pardon the surreal intrusion.
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