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from the Mirror (UK)
posted on
2004-11-19 08:52 AM
God Help America -
'The People Have Spoken'
The Mirror - UK
11-6-4
They say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today
America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into
carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest
of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for
another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced
to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a
fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been
the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their
eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of
humanity. And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls
predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had. But then the
horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to
re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put
before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas. A self-serving, dim-witted,
draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to
yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters
100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity. A
dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a
power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase
America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources. And in
foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more
unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most
probably another 9/11. Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to
scare them to the polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won
It." And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have
his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of
the fun, can he? Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today. To the
tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations. To the
overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you learnt
nothing? Do you despise your own image that much? Do you care so little
about the world beyond your shores? How could you do this to
yourselves? How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be
for you to reject him? Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the
Democrats have ever fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that
"reporting for doo-dee" moment), but at least he understood the
complexity of the world outside America, and domestic disgraces like
the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover. He would
have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it
with the wider world. Instead America chose a man without morals or
vision. An economic incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from
Clinton, gave it in tax cuts to the rich and turned the US into the
world's largest debtor nation. A man who sneers at the rights of other
nations. Who has withdrawn from international treaties on the
environment and chemical weapons. A man who flattens sovereign states
then hands the rebuilding contracts to his own billionaire party
backers. A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli
government which continually flouts UN resolutions. America has chosen
a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of the 9/11
terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and, during
the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching
up hits when news came through of enemy deaths. A RADICAL Christian
fanatic who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and
evil, who invented a war on terror, and thus as author of it, believed
he had the right to set the rules of engagement. Which translates to
telling his troops to do what the hell they want to the bad guys. As he
has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across Iraq. You have
to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New
York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who
voted to kick him out. These are the sophisticated side of the
electorate who recognise a gibbon when they see one. As for the ones
who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can
only feel pity. Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not
only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside
world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets. The
self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin',
abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin'
red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world
so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and
strong". You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma
Republican Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion
and execute any doctors who carried them out. He also told voters that
lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools that girls were being
sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to
back him up. These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken
compassion to child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's
chief recruiting officers. Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the
outpourings of America's Christian right. Bush is its
commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own
fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever
assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man. Or is the
reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff they
are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the devil
they know. VISITORS from another planet watching this election would
surely not credit the amateurism. The queues for hours to register a
tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the
$1.2bn wasted by parties trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations
of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so
wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College voting system that makes the
Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency;
and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing the victor. Yet
America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the
world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W
Bush. But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who
overnight would have given back to the UN some credibility and
authority. Who would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess
without fear of losing face. Instead, the questions facing America
today are - how many more thousands of their sons will die as Iraq
descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more Vietnams are on the
horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after Iran, Syria,
North Korea or Cuba...? Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even
sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a
gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate, half of whom still
believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11. Yanks had the chance to show
the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy
ride off into the sunset bathed in glory. And in doing so it brought
Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved
nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak. God Help
America.
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