[Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

[Rachel Storm]

Terrific! Far more appropriate.

-Rachel

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>Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:21:53 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers  
>To: peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, C-U Citzens for Peace and Justice <discuss at lists.communitycourtwatch.org>
>
>   How about this instead ...
>
>Bush ought to be US embarrassment
>
>        Wednesday October 29, 2008
>
>       A United States president's history of criminality
>      cannot be minimized.
>
>   The Associated Press reports that no one has signed
>   an online petition objecting to the "demonization"
>   of US President George W Bush.
>
>   Bush is an admitted and unrepentant terrorist who,
>   by his own admission, ordered and helped plan the
>   death or torture of hundreds of thousands of
>   civilians and US and allied military personnel, not
>   to mention civilian contractors, as part of a group
>   of militant rightists known as the
>   Neo-Conservatives.
>
>   Bush came to national attention during the 2000
>   presidential campaign because of his daddy.
>
>   Until Bush's after-the-fact denunciations of Abu
>   Ghraib, for example, for US soldiers' "disgusting"
>   criminal conduct - on his and Donald Rumsfeld's
>   orders, the pair were longtime associates. A
>   notorious torture site for Saddam Hussein before his
>   overthrow, Abu Ghraib was reopened after the Bush
>   Administration's illegal invasion of Iraq and the
>   subsequent uprising of Iraqi rebel groups against
>   the US occupation.
>
>   Republican presidential candidate John McCain has
>   challenged the wisdom of Bush's association with
>   torture, but in the end he voted for it. Memories
>   fade with time, so more people seem to accept Bush'
>   current persona as a president than his former role
>   as a spoiled alcoholic coke-head who still engages
>   in serial criminal activities, urges the illegal
>   overthrow of the sovereign governments, is a
>   pathological liar, condones torture, encourages the
>   rich ("my base") to screw the poor, especially
>   parents and children, and more.
>
>   Bush's supporters are complaining bitterly about the
>   "blame America first" demonizations. But any fair
>   reading of Bush's long history of criminality
>   demonstrates that he has demonized himself.
>
>   In defense of his bombing and torturing spree, which
>   he describes vaguely as "fighting terrorism," Bush
>   downplays his blatant violations of US and
>   international law on the grounds of self-defense,
>   and by saying that the Geneva convention against
>   torturing prisoners is "vague" and "open to
>   interpretation."  He's much too big a liar. There
>   have been hundreds of thousands of casualties left
>   by Bush and his Neo-Conservative associates, and he
>   can't escape responsibility.
>
>   We are not talking about bomb-making in basements,
>   vandalism or robbing a Brink's truck here.  This is
>   mass murder and war crime on a global scale.
>
>   So don't get too carried away about what a swell
>   fellow Bush is. The son of a wealthy oil
>   executive/ex-CIA man/ex-president, he's a moral
>   reprobate who brags that not only does he not regret
>   his criminal behavior but that he wishes he and his
>   fellow revolutionaries had been more destructive.
>
>   His presence in the United States, running around
>   free and un-convicted, should be a source of shame,
>   not grounds to leap to the defense of an
>   indefensible man or policy.
>
>   Ricky Baldwin
>
>   "Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." -
>   Peter Kropotkin
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