Heroes and Villains of 2003

[acmavm]

http://www.news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1425172003

Stewart Kirkpatrick
skirkpatrick at scotsman dot com


NB: we know that there are far more worthy heroes than those listed here - doctors, nurses, aid workers, Franck Sauzee, etc. Similarly, murderers, rapists and dictators are indisputably far greater villains. This column does not deal with them. It is designed to honour those who have caused surprise by their actions

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More seriously, should the man of the year be George W Bush, who rid the world of a brutal and murderous dictator? Dubya's heroic waters are muddied because the unpresident trampled all over the UN in his haste to depose Saddam; he has failed to bring peace to Iraq and he's turned the solemn business of war into one cackhanded PR stunt after another.

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Instead scotsman.com would like to honour the unsung heroes of 2003 - the ordinary citizens of Iraq, who have suffered years of oppression under a violent tyrant, the horrors of war and the attentions of ruthless terrorists who give no value to human life.

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Villain of the year
Choices, choices, choices.

Kim Jong Il? While the North Korean leader is madder than Mad Mad McMad of that Ilk after a hard night on the mad juice, this column is supposed to be light-hearted so it's going to plump for J-Lo as its villain of the year.

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[coloradodem2005]

1. My Heroes and villans of 2003.

Villans:
Saddam Hussain
George W. Bush
Kim Jong Ill
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
Paul Wolfowitz
John Ashcroft
Condelezza Rice
Bill O'Rielly
Sean Hannity
Rush Limbaugh
Jerry Falwell
Joe Scarborough
Tom DeLay

Heroes:
Howard Dean (Empower the people with grassroots movement)
Wes Clark (I am a Dean supporter but I like this guy)
John Kerry (just for his comments to Rolling Stone on Bush)
Jon Stewart (funniest guy out there)
Al Franken (funny and has back bone
Michael Moore (disreputable because he pushes the envelope)
Dennis Kucinich (Long shot but good man)
The Dixie Chicks (Natalie Manes has guts)
Our brave men and women in uniform
Teddy Kennedy

What do you think?

[salin]

2. per heros... don't forget:

http://www.mellencamp.com/news/towashington.html

[Miramar]

5. Thank you!

For including Dennis Kucinich in your list of heroes.

Peace to all

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Heroes and villains

Villains:

• G. W. Bush
• Dick Cheney
• Tony Blair
• Donald Rumsfeld
• Condolezza Rice
• Colin Powell
• Jack Straw
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Richard Perle
• John Bolton
• Douglas Feith
• John Ashcroft
• Tom Delay
• Walden O'Dell (Diebold)
• Judith Miller, Thomas Friedman, Robert Novak and all "journalists" who prostituted themselves to Bush and PNAC
• FoxNews, CNN and MSNBC
• Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Rantisi
• Bush's war profiteering cronies

Heroes:

• Democratic presidential candiates who spoke out against the invasion
• Backbench MPs who opposed Blair
• Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei
• Independent, unembedded reporters who went to Iraq to tell the truth
• Paul Krugman, Greg Palast, David Corn, Will Pitt and all journalists who tried to tell the truth
• Joseph Wilson
• Bev Harris
• Yossi Beilin of Israel and Yasser Abed Rabbo of Palestine, authors of the Geneva Accord
• US troops in Iraq, who are the front-line victims of Bush's fraud
• The Iraq people, who are rid of murderers and now fight against a thieves
• The 10 million of us around the world who marched against Mr. Bush's unjustified, criminal war ahead of it

My apopolgies to the many deserving omitted.

[hellhathnofury]

4. I strongly second Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbo.

I only wish we had leadership to implement their vision of peace and compromise.

[jbfam4]

6. good lists

I would add Senator Robert Byrd, Gary Heart and Max Cleland to the list of heros.