"Chzwmn" <chzwmn@aol.com> wrote in message
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: This if from the UK newspaper, the Daily Mirror.
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: THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has
: deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and
: isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
:
:
: This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four
years
: and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air.
: And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and
: very small nation.
:
:
: This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their
critics
: by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards
: the rest of humanity.
:
:
: And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John
: Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
:
:
: But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed
: to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put
before
: them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
:
:
: A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose
: idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury
: which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and
: vanity.
:
:
: A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a
: power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase
: America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
:
:
: And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more
: unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably
: another 9/11.
:
:
: Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls,
: then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
:
:
: There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won It."
:
:
: And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his
folks
: whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can
: he?
:
:
: Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
:
:
: To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations.
:
:
: To the overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you
: learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much?
:
:
: Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you do
: this to yourselves?
:
:
: How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be for you to
reject
: him?
:
:
: Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever
: fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that "reporting for doo-dee"
: moment), but at least he understood the complexity of the world outside
: America, and domestic disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens
: without health cover.
:
:
: He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected
: it with the wider world.
:
:
: Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic
: incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax
: cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation.
:
:
: A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn from
: international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons.
:
:
: A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding contracts to
: his own billionaire party backers.
:
:
: A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government
: which continually flouts UN resolutions.
:
:
: America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit
of
: the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and,
: during the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer,
: notching up hits when news came through of enemy deaths.
:
:
: A RADICAL Christian fanatic who decided the world was made up of the
forces
: of good and evil, who invented a war on terror, and thus as author of it,
: believed he had the right to set the rules of engagement.
:
:
: Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want to
the
: bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across
: Iraq.
:
:
: You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like
New
: York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted
: to kick him out.
:
:
: These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a gibbon
: when they see one.
:
:
: As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us
: outsiders can only feel pity.
:
:
: Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them
: returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all
: into the same category of moronic muppets.
:
:
: The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin',
: abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin'
: red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest ***** in the world so
it
: could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".
:
:
: You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican
: Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute
: any doctors who carried them out.
:
:
: He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools
: that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal
: could be found to back him up.
:
:
: These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to
: child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting
: officers.
:
:
: Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's Christian
: right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each
other
: to survive.
:
:
: Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own
: fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever
: assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.
:
:
: Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff
: they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the
: devil they know.
:
:
: VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not
credit
: the amateurism.
:
:
: The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to
: ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to
: discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty
: tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral
: College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a
: beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles
: in announcing the victor.
:
:
: Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the
: world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W
: Bush.
:
:
: But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight
: would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would
: have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing
: face.
:
:
: Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more thousands
: of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many
: more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to
go
: after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...?
:
:
: Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of
: intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a
banal
: electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
:
:
: Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead
they
: made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
:
:
: And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and
: re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of
: The Freak.
:
:
: God Help America.
Bush won the election for it seems two reasons. Besides most Americans
being ill informed and skeptical of all reports about politics, there is a
huge
anti-abortion vote. This was fueled by Kerry's stand in support of what is
called here "partial birth abortion'. He did not explain that he was for the
ban but against it being implemented without out provisions protecting the
life and health of the mother. This seems like a loophole left to the
manipulation
of doctors who make the decision about what is in the scope of the mother's
health. Added to this were several initiatives about banning 'gay marriage'
which brought out people who would have not voted otherwise. The Supreme
Court Chief Justice what appears to be a politically motivated announcement
that he was suffering from thyroid cancer. He could have waited until after
the election and thyroid cancer is one of the most treatable forms of
cancer.
His illness reminded people of possibility or probability that there would
be
at least one Supreme Court appointment during the next term and that would
give an opportunity for the new president to choose an appointee that would
either support abortion rights or not. Perhaps in the minds of the justice
and
administration, not that they conspired... that in their minds it was a
reminder
but not political manipulation by Justice Rehnquist.
God help us all.
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