[Article] Interesting view on Bush

MrPudding

I was sent this by a friend that moved to the states a few years ago.

The link doesn't seem to work but I post it anyway.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lecarre20oct20,1,33
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If Le Carré Could Vote----By John le Carré,
John le Carré is the author of "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold,"
"Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and many other novels.

Maybe there's one good reason - just one - for reelecting 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 would then get blamed for his predecessor's follies.

Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated
abroad as 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
dictatorship but had no hand in the events of 9/11, no weapons of mass
destruction and no record of terrorism except as an ally of the United
States 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, my prime
minister, a great war leader because he committed Britain's troops,
foreign policy and domestic security to the same harebrained 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 bin Laden 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 advisors promised him he
could
light and put out like a candle.

Meanwhile, your Patriot Act has swept aside constitutional and civil
liberties that 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.
Here in Britain, for as long as we have Tony Blair singing the same
lies
as George W. Bush, your nightmares will be ours.

OfflerCrocGod

I wish Le Carré was a member of boards so that I could +rep him. They only little problem I had with that was the "twice saved" part apart from that it was bang on.

The Corinthian

OfflerCrocGod wrote:

They only little problem I had with that was the "twice saved" part

Indeed. I can only assume that he meant the two World Wars. If so, the first was fought with very little assistance from the US and in the second, I suspect that the Russians would disagree with him.

therecklessone

The Corinthian wrote:

Indeed. I can only assume that he meant the two World Wars. If so, the first was fought with very little assistance from the US and in the second, I suspect that the Russians would disagree with him.

Just +repped you for that, took the words right out of my mouth...

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