Thanks, Bush

[rachelmanija]

So, let's see: the man who murdered 3000 people, including the 23-year-old sister of a friend of mine, is still alive and in good health, due to Bush's utter failure to capture or kill him in three years.

Thanks, Bush, for turning the job over to a rag-tag gang of Afghan thugs when you had him cornered at Tora Bora. I'm sure they had far more motivation, training, and high-tech equipment than the American Special Forces.

And thanks, Bush, for deciding to pour all the might of our military, intelligence, and money into Iraq instead. Sure, Saddam Hussein never killed any American civilians, but you knew you could get him and bin Laden as well.

Thanks, Bush, for insulting our historic allies in Asia and Europe, not to mention the UN, NATO, and the IAEA. I'm sure your sneers and snubbing and refusal to take any of their warnings and intelligence seriously have been a great help in the international effort to nail bin Laden.

Thanks, Bush, for taking all the sympathy we were getting from Muslim countries and telling them to stuff it. Thanks for killing 100,000 Iraqi civilians in air strikes on civilian cities (confirmed by Lancet). Thanks for abandoning the peace process in Israel. Thanks for imprisoning Muslims without the right to trial or to even plead mistaken identity. Thanks for jailing and deporting Muslim immigrants with no evidence of wrongdoing. The search for bin Laden is so much easier when all the people in the areas where he's hiding think he's a hero and we're evil.

And thanks, American media, for promoting this latest evidence of Bush's incompetence as a selling point for him. Public enemy number one is on the loose on Bush's watch-- so vote for Bush.

And finally, thanks, American people who are going to vote for Bush because bin Laden's jerked their chain. You're a tool of a mass murderer who wants Bush to continue doing just as he's done: attack Iran next, maybe, build more anti-American hatred, launch a world war between fundamentalist Islam and the western world: that's what al Qaeda is all about. And nobody but Bush can aid their aims quite so well.

So thanks, Bush and Bush's patsies. Bin Laden thanks you too.

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Gaaaa. It all makes me want to puke.

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

Yeah. **sigh* The people get the government they deserve, though. So many people are sheep who don't want to have to think, who only want to fit in, follow the bellwether. Bush seems to be their bellwether. (If y'all have read Bellwether by Connie Willis, or if you know anything about sheep, you'll know that the bellwether is as stupid as any sheep, only it bumbles into things and the others instinctively follow it.) People who want or need to be told what to think gravitate to the Republican party of today, the neocon-controlled place that used to be thought of as a lunatic frince but is now the "majority."

The only hope we have that democracy might continue is if the young people and others who were below the radar of the polls and pundits turn out on Tuesday and turn it upside-down by voting for Kerry. This is not the year to make a point by voting for any third party or independent candidate, because that's just a vote to keep Bush (if you WANT that, then why not just vote Reep?) I only hope it's not too late to stop the slide down the mountainside.

don't worry

[(Anonymous)]

Kerry is going to win, not Bush.

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

Saddest of all, people still believe that Saddam and bin Laden were on the same side, whereas the truth is, of course, that Iraq was a secular government and anathema to bin Laden.
I went to Egypt in the spring of 2003. It was interesting to note that several merchants in the souk asked me if I was a Muslim (I was wearing a scarf), and when I responded that I am a Christian, they all said, "oh, that's the same thing." Hatred of Christian Westerners? Not so as you'd notice.

[vladimirsever.livejournal.com]

I've heard it put many times. I've never heard it put so well.

*bows to rachel*

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I don't suppose it swayed anyone, but at least this American's on record as opposing the evil un-elected jackass currently in office.

Just for future reference, how do you say "George Bush is a bad man. I did not vote for him" in Croatian? (I know how to say it in Japanese, and did so several times the last time I was there.)