Letters to the Editor, June 7, 2004

Australia may (if the Australian Labor Party wins the election--hope they are not lying ) withdraw troops from Iraq. Apparently you do not approve you think Australian troops should remain. You are not shy about letting everyone know either.

Get an atlas or a map of the world and find the USA on it, (take your time ) right try and find the state of Australia - you can't find it? That's because its a whole different country. So you know your business ? Mind it please, it's what you should have done re Iraq as well.

You are the President of the USA only an office you unofficially share with Mr Sharon (but you don't mind that obviously, he's a Chosen Person in your eyes).

Nobody except Zionists and their supporters want the US-led Coalition in Iraq. Nobody of any integrity wants you in the White House.

Israel to share

In a bold new move Israeli PM 'Sharon The Slaughterer' has agreed to share the country's swimming pools with Palestinians. The Israelis, he explained, will take the top half, the Palestinians the bottom half.

This mirrors long-standing Israeli land policy.

Phil Hong

My very first thought on 9-11: "What has George Bush done now?"

By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was waiting for an elevator in downtown Oakland. A man ran up to me and cried, "They've just attacked the World Trade Center! The twin towers have been completely destroyed."

My very first thought was, "What has George Bush done now." A man who would steal an election, corrupt the integrity of the Supreme Court, cancel the Kyoto treaty, come out in favor of slavery at Durban, lead us into the worst depression since 1929, cheer on Enron as it gutted California and support every petty tyrant in the third world was, in my eyes, capable of anything.

In that first week after the WTC attack, I desperately tried to get to New York City to help out. All the planes were grounded (except of course for the Saudis) and so I consoled myself with putting out an anonymous flier denouncing George Bush as being (at the very least) asleep at the wheel. Stealthfully and surreptitiously, I posted my little Tom Paine broadside on the nearest telephone pole -- and ran like hell, afraid that at any moment I would be caught, jailed and sent off to Siberia (They hadn't yet invented Guantanamo).

Then a few of us stalwarts got on the web. Me and Tina and Roz and Gary and Lori and Kelly and Rita and Joe. From all across the United States, we found each other somehow. "Have you read what is in the Patriot Act?" we asked. "Did you know that Bush is planning to invade Afghanistan?" And "How did `terrorists' get their hands on US-made weapons-grade anthrax?"

Soon others began to join us in questioning George Bush's motives and skills. Paul Krugman. Molly Ivins. Dennis Kucinich. Helen Thomas. Michael Moore. Finally even the New York Times got on board. But none of us, even in our wildest dreams, could ever have possibly imagined on that sad day back in September 2001 what incredible lows America would finally sink to -- or that we would end up having a genuine Napoleon-complex nut case in the White House, roving through the halls of that esteemed symbol of America's honor with his hand thrust inside his jacket and muttering "I am the ruler of the world."

US Wars

A CENTURY OF US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS:

From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan

http://www.zmag.org/crisescurEvts/interventions.htm

U.S. military spending ($343 billion in the year 2000) is 69 percent greater than that of the next five highest nations combined. Russia, which has the second largest military budget, spends less than one-sixth what the United States does. Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, Iran, and Syria spend $14.4 billion combined; Iran accounts for 52 percent of this total.