[Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote

[Nell]

Bush is the proverbial bully in the schoolyard.
He picks a fight with one of the unpopular kids (Saddam), uses brute
strength (the US' has the finest military armaments in the world), justifies
his behavior with "he threatened my Daddy" and "I know he has WMD" (b/c Bush
has X-ray vision or borrowed Nancy Reagan's crystal ball" and rallies the
bored, the ignorant, the myopic, those nostalgic for the glory days
associated with the truly heroic efforts our WWII troops made to bring a
legitimate menace (Hitler) to his just desserts, and those "Military minds"
(I think that's an oxymoron) - both the wannabees and those in and out of
uniform who feel that if the US is not in the limelight flexing it's muscles
then the world just "doesn't give us no respect".
It helped that our economy was in the basement and war - under any pretext -
surely bolsters the economy.
War is surely a distraction from a lackluster president who was ushered in
under history-making suspicion of a manipulated election and vote-tally in a
state under the gun of Bush's "little bro'".
It helped that the previous President had highly-public "extra-curricular
activities", thus rendering him a hindrance when supporting the party's
presidential nominee. 
It helped that the US' gluttony for oil has imperiled the world's supply and
our opportunity to consume the rest of the oil before any other countries
might benefit from it. 
But none of these contributors can strengthen an inherently cowardly, weak,
blue-blood whose "successes" were the result of money and connections rather
than performance and achievement. 
He has employed paranoia (the Al-Qaeda are coming, the Al-Qaeda are coming)
and religious/cultural phobia (if you're not Judao-Christian and look like
the rest of us then you are evil and preparing to do us harm) to
re-institute McCarthyism and Salem witch hunts and the Holy Crusades. 
He has denied prisoners due process and detained them under conditions in
violation of the Geneva Convention.
He has distracted us from the largest deficit in history, the lowest level
of world respect since our country's founding, the biggest financial fiasco
in history (Enron), the largest job loss in nearly a century, the widening
chasm between the nation's rich and the worker, and the largest number of
healthcare uninsured since health insurance was invented.
The US has become like the German nation after WWI - the economy is in
rubble, national morale in the toilet, and ANY action somehow makes us think
we can regain stature and respect.
How much different are we than Hitler and his henchmen?
They murdered 6 million Jews in the name of ethnic cleansing.
We murder Arabs in the name of national and world security.
The German nation turned a blind eye to the smoke stacks of the ovens of
Auschwitz.
We turn a blind eye to the torture and murder of Abu Gahrib.
Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and the world hoped his hunger for domination
would be appeased.
We invade Iraq and the world hopes our plunder-lust will be sated.

This election is not about Kerry.
It's about our own self-respect as a nation.
We have talked the talk of human rights, national sovereignty, cultural
independence.
We now walk the walk of human rights violation on a world scale, national
imperialism, and cultural ethnic cleansing.
Whatever the US does, it does because it has the money and power to do it.
We may go unchallenged for awhile but don't equate military superiority with
moral rightness.
Lest we forget, the Redcoats with the might of the British Empire ruled the
world for quite sometime only to be dethroned by an upstart ragtag
collection of American revolutionaries who didn't mind using hit and run
tactics and any other method they could conceive to rid themselves of their
oppressors.

History has a way of repeating itself.
"The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", "The Sun Never Sets on the British
Empire", "United We Stand Divided We Fall" ...
In November we have the chance to send a new message to the World - the
question is: "4 More Years" or "Let's Set the Record Straight"?

nellwolfe

 

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Roger, I just can't read all the material you've written and not respond.
You 
write beautifully, your thinking is top level, you are obviously an 
intelligent and sincere man, but you missed the correct conclusion. Anyone
but Bush, 
anyone! I don't think Kerry is the perfect candidate, but I would vote for 
Atilla The Hun rather than put Bush back in office. We're in big trouble and
4 more 
years of Bush will only make it worse. I know where Bush will take us but I 
can only hope and pray that Kerry will do a better job. He can't do any
worse.
As you said to Rummy, we're all intitled to our own opinion.
Jim Gifford
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