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october 2004
In blood we trust
2004, the electoral circus has started ; the candidates
have made their promises and used every trick imaginable to discredit
their opponent. The Bush machine, well trained at deceiving the
masses continues to justify the massacre in Iraq where American
casualties have exceeded the thousand and it is impossible to put
a number on the Iraqis who have lost their lives since the GIs set
boots on the banks of the Euphrates.
Democrats are rallying behind their party nominee who made himself
a target for the Republicans by bragging about his war medals. Of
course, one volunteered to go to Viet Nam and the other dodged the
draft by serving (partially) in the National Guards, thanks to daddy¹s
connections. The country is as divided as ever before, the outcome
depends on the undecided voters who seem to have very little interest
in either of the potential next leader of the Free World and who
will rather vote against one rather than for the other.
Ralph Nader who, presenting himself as an ascetic and who has made
millions of dollars in the stock market by investing in the very
corporations he denigrates, is helping the Republicans as he did
in 2000. Another element of this political comedy resides in the
intended use of new electronic voting machines which, according
to experts, will leave an enormous amount of doubt since it is fuzzy
how records could be made available for a very possible recount.
One would expect to hear the man who will enter the White house
presenting his programs about the economy, health coverage, employment,
homeland security and all those important issues. Instead we hear
superficial promises and witness the most repulsive cockfight in
the political history of the United States.
Big words, little substance! And we know that most of the pledges
will not be honored after the elections. The saddest part of all
this comes from the fact that most voters don't even know what they
are voting for. Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard
Perle, Lewis Libby and the rest of the ultra right connection keep
manipulating their puppet to realize the American global empire.
And most of the electorate believes that America, in its greatness,
is giving democracy to Iraq. World domination. Controlling global
resources. That's why they are here. And, read my lips, they have
no intention of leaving in November.
What kind of spell are we under that few of us can remember history
before 2000? It might behoove us to take a peek at the past since
Bush, who openly admits he longs to be a dictator, brags on and
on about being "called by history" to seize opportunities, to destroy
anything in his path. He calls himself a war president and answers
only to God.
How scarier can that be?
But the expected results have faded away, the shrinking coalition
is struggling in the Mesopotamian quick sands and the dark side
of the coin is showing: prisoners abuses, torture, daily spilling
of innocent blood, maimed and slaughtered American citizens, kidnappings
and beheadings, total international chaos and the specter of civil
war in Iraq...
At home, orchestrated terror alerts keep popping up in the news
to keep the scared electorate behind their leader. Evil truly reigns
amongst us.
Was the tragedy of September 11, 2001 Georges W Bush's Reichstag
fire allowing him to restrict the rights to personal freedom, the
privacy of mail and phones, order and decide preemptive wars ?
The nation was in danger and as Hitler, Bush took hold of every
opportunity to "make us safer. Inexplicably, the people raised little
objection.
These days, men and women are more concerned about the series of
hurricanes that wreck havoc on the Eastern US.
The president is providing billions of federal dollars to the devastated
states. It can't hurt at election time!
As for John Kerry, if he was elected, I wish that he would steer
the United States toward better relations with our former allies
and keep some of his campaign promises.
See you in November !
Claude Seguy
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