[BlueSky]

The title of this thread is my own conclusion, though the author of the open letter below would agree, I think. I find the article to be poignant, enlightening and more relevant than a lot of what some of our own pundits/leaders are saying.

The author, Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey is a journalist for Pravda.

Open Letter to the Citizens of the U.S.

This is a small excerpt:

Please, consider very carefully what you are doing on November 2nd. We want to have the USA back among us as part of the international community of nations. A vote for Bush is a vote for more wars, more terrorism, more violence, a shift further away from the welcoming arms of the community of nations, which wants to live together as brothers, not in hatred.

Killing tens of thousands of civilians is not Christian, it is evil and the callousness with which this issue is faced by the Bush regime is witness to the coldness in their hearts and minds, a coldness which creates shock and revulsion in the community of nations. In Europe, in Africa, in Asia, in Latin America, in Canada

If you cannot bring yourselves to vote for any of the other contestants, then at least, please, consider not voting for Bush. In a nutshell, there are no two ways about it. Killing tens of thousands of civilians by strafing their homes, mutilating tens of thousands more, commiting rape and torture on a scale unseen outside the concentration camps of Hitler, amounts to war crimes, murder.

Voting for Bush is voting for a war criminal and a mass murderer.

[Shaddim]

Like the rape, murder, and destruction the UN's allowed in Africa? Want to talk about "scale", nothing touches what they've allowed for the last several years over there. Kofi Annan, being African himself, should be ashamed and aghast at his own behavior towards his abuses of those people by not working more diligently towards a solution to the problem.

Truly mindboggling.

Well, seems like after we get through working on Iraq the US will have to go clean up the UN's mess in Africa. But we're used to cleaning up after them. Pitiful excuse for an organization as they are.

[BlueSky]

Originally posted by MacNStein:
Well, seems like after we get through working on Iraq the US will have to go clean up the UN's mess in Africa. But we're used to cleaning up after them. Pitiful excuse for an organization as they are.

The US probably won't be finished "working on Iraq" for a very long time. Remember, the US has only killed 100,000+ civilians so far, and "cleaning up the mess" would probably entail a lot more than that number.

Then, and only then, can the US go into Africa and finish the genocide. But don't get your hopes up; there's no oil to speak of there.

[Shaddim]

Originally posted by Bluesky:
The US probably won't be finished "working on Iraq" for a very long time. Remember, the US has only killed 100,000+ civilians so far, and "cleaning up the mess" would probably entail a lot more than that number.

Then, and only then, can the US go into Africa and finish the genocide. But don't get your hopes up; there's no oil to speak of there.

Oh well... I guess the UN will have to actuallly DO something, rather than just talk about it or slap wrists. Should prove interesting/comical to watch... in a Keystone Cops kinda way.

100,000 ... that's pretty funny. They can say it a million times and it still won't be correct. I like how the most liberal estimates had the death toll around 18,000, but then, here comes this idiot claiming it's almost 6x that number. Very amusing.