forward to another four years of people posting about how he sucks. Gel is
gonna have to reinforce his soap box, and maybe install a loudspeaker to be
heard above the din.
-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:16 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: A clear and present danger to the world...?
This isn't really new material, just regurgitated and re-presented.
Even the best material gets tired after a while.
- Calvin
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel Stewart
To: CF-Community
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:00 AM
Subject: A clear and present danger to the world...?
http://tinyurl.com/24bqe
A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE WORLD
Apr 16 2004
Kevin Toolis
HE is the most dangerous man in the world.
A warmonger. A crackpot fundamentalist. A fanatic and a fool who has
only the barest grasp of the killing power of the forces under his
command.
His name is George W Bush and his main battle plan is to set the world
on fire.
September 11 was a crime against humanity but from Afghanistan to Iraq,
and now in Israel, Bush has blazed a purposeless trail of destruction
and multiplied the dangers of terrorism a thousand-fold.
The War Against Terror has turned into a war of terror in Iraq as
American troops butcher their way through the civilian population in
pursuit of an enemy that grows stronger daily with each dead Iraqi
civilian.
And in Israel Bush has overnight primed the entire region for a new
cycle of slaughter by backing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's
illegal land-grab of Palestinian territory and offering the Arabs
nothing in return only despair.
Bush seems determined to unite the entire Arab world against the West.
Already the mass murderer Osama bin Laden has gleefully vowed to avenge
the Israeli assassination of Palestinian Hamas leader Sheikh Yassin.
After September 11 Bush promised to fight terror. But the only promise
Bush has kept is the promise of more terror, more terrorist atrocities,
like the Madrid bombings, to come.
As the American President Bush is supposed to protect democracy and make
the world a safer place.
Bush is supposed to be the leader of the free world, a man who directly
follows in the footsteps of such great statesmen as John F Kennedy, who
saved the world from nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban missile
crisis.
But airhead Bush is no Kennedy.
WATCHING Bush stumble through a live press conference, even when he
knows the questions, is like watching a stranded goldfish gasping for
air.
Bush is not just out of his depth, he is out of his element.
If it was not so truly frightening you could almost feel sorry for him.
If I was an American I would be ashamed. Ashamed that the greatest
nation on earth is so badly led. Ashamed that their commander-in-chief
is without purpose squandering the lives of his men, and Iraqi
civilians.
And ashamed too of a President who sends men to their death but does not
have the courage to attend one single funeral of the 700 US soldiers
killed in Iraq.
Iraq and Israel might seem far away but every time you fill up your car
you are taking part in the politics of the Middle East. The world
economy still runs on petrol and that oil still largely comes from the
Arab world.
If anything should ever happen to that flow of oil - civil war in Saudi
Arabia or meltdown in Iraq - we would all know about it very quickly by
the US$100 a barrel price tag and the three-hour queue down at your
local petrol station.
The war against Islamic fundamentalism, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is
a battle for the future of the world. It is a war the West cannot afford
to lose. And it is a war in which the clueless Bush is blindly leading
us all towards disaster.
As if the quagmire in Iraq was not bad enough, Bush has turned his
destructive attention to the other regional hot-spot, Israel.
At the White House Bush summarily dismissed 50 years of Palestinian
claims for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. Israeli
settlements in the West Bank, all illegal under international law, were
the "new realities" that the Palestinians would just have to accept, he
said.
A couple of months ago I was standing next to one of those realities, an
eight-foot high concrete wall, on the outskirts of Jerusalem in the
small Arab village of Abu Dis.
Abu Dis is seven miles from the centre of Jerusalem and straddles the
3000-year-old pilgrim road to Jericho. Jesus Christ himself probably
walked along the same road on his way into Jerusalem.
But last summer Ariel Sharon decided Abu Dis was no longer part of East
Jerusalem and erected an eight-foot high concrete barrier across the
middle of the road, cutting the residents off from their homes, their
jobs, and their city.
ON the roof of a local garage the Israeli army erected an observation
post and threatened to shoot anyone who climbed the wall.
The Palestinians ignored the soldiers and round the corner climbed the
wall anyway.
I was standing on the "Arab" side of the wall chatting to Ahmed Bahar, a
street falafel seller, when without warning an Israeli soldier lobbied a
tear-gas grenade.
There was no shouting. No mob screaming threats. Ahmed saw the hissing
gas canister, which landed about 10 feet away, and took off in the
opposite direction. I ran after him but not before getting a choking
whiff of the stinging gas in my eyes and lungs.
After 10 minutes the wind blew the gas away and Ahmed went back to his
falafel stall. The other Palestinians quietly got back in line to queue
for a taxi. And life started up again.
Ahmed said he had been gassed hundreds of times. He was past being angry
about it. The real thing that bothered him was the disruption to his
trade. He wasn't making enough money to support his family.
Getting tear gassed in Abu Dis for no reason is just one of the new
realities that George W Bush wants the Palestinians to live with, along
with hundreds of other daily humiliations of Israeli occupation. But is
not a sustainable reality. Sooner or later some Palestinian will angrily
strike back. There will be more suicide bombings, more killings, more
despair.
To save the world from terror you have to have vision, intelligence and
the ability to unlock the complex political problems.
But the only ability George Bush has is an unerring capacity to make a
grim situation worse.
George W Bush is a clear and present danger to the world.
And we are all under threat until this bumbling oaf is removed from
office and confined to a remote Texas cow ranch where he truly belongs.
-KEVIN Toolis is an expert on terrorism
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