[Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

They probably do; but they also probably reserve the right to screen, pick,
and choose who  they will publish and what they will print.

 

From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net
[mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of Jenifer
Cartwright
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1:48 PM
To: Ricky Baldwin; Peace- Discuss
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

 


Bush IS a US embarrassment. 

 

So, does the NG accept guest editorials??

 --Jenifer

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 10:21 AM


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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