http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/
0,13918,1326066,00.html
Check it out.
Below is an article written by the former British intelligence officer
and
novelist, John le Carre, which appeared in the Guardian, the "official"
paper of the Labour Party.
JOHN LE CARRE writing in the GUARDIAN
Maybe there's one good reason - just one - for re-electing George W Bush,
and that's to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling
actions, and answer for his own lies, rather than wish the job on a
Democrat
who will then get blamed for his predecessor's follies Probably no
American president in all history has been so universally hated
abroad as George W Bush: for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of
international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of
other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world
government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in
order to unleash an illegal war - and now anarchy - upon a country that
like too many others around the world was suffering under a hideous
dictator****p, but had no hand in 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction,
and
no record of terrorism except as an ally of the US in a dirty war against
Iran.
Is your president a great war leader because he allowed himself to be
manipulated by a handful of deluded ideologues? Is Tony Blair a great
war
leader because he committed Britain's troops, foreign policy and domestic
security to the same hare-brained adventure?
You are voting in November. We will vote next year. Yet the outcome
in both countries will in large part depend on the same question: how
long
can the lies last now that the truth has finally been told? The Iraq war
was
planned long before 9/11. Osama provided the excuse. Iraq paid the price.
American kids paid the price. British kids paid the price. Our
politicians
lied to
us. While Bush was waging his father's war at your expense, he was also
ruining your country. He made your rich richer and your poor and
unemployed
more numerous. He robbed your war veterans of their due and reduced your
children's access to education. And he deprived more Americans than ever
before of healthcare. Now he's busy cooking the books, burying deficits
and
calling in contingency funds to fight a war that his advisers promised
him
he could light and put out like a candle.
Meanwhile, your Patriot Act has swept aside constitutional and civil
liberties which took brave Americans 200 years to secure, and were
once the envy of a world that now looks on in horror, not just at
Guantanamo
and Abu Ghraib, but at what you are doing to yourselves. But please don't
feel
isolated from the Europe you twice saved. Give us back the America we
loved,
and your friends will be waiting for you. And here in Britain, for as
long
as
we have Tony Blair singing the same lies as George Bush, your nightmares
will be ours.
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