[Discuss] [Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers

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I agree,

Ricky, you need to send  this to the News Gazette.

David J.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John W. 
  To: Ricky Baldwin 
  Cc: peace discuss ; C-U Citzens for Peace and Justice 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Discuss] [Peace-discuss] N-G Editorial on Ayers


  Excellent, Ricky.  Is it safe to assume that you wrote it?  What are you going to DO with it?

  John Wason



  On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:


    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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