Slobodan Milosevic?

[joeallonby]

on 11/5/04 10:23 AM, Ghetta Life at ghetta_outta at hotmail.com wrote:

> 
> http://www.juancole.com/
> 
> "In the last week--with more than enough time to influence the
> election--doctors from America’s leading research hospitals published a
> study demonstrating that US forces have killed upwards of 100,000 Iraqis,
> the majority of them women and children killed by American bombs. Yet before
> November 2 Americans could at least say they weren’t directly responsible
> for the disaster that has unfolded there in Iraq, since an unelected
> President had taken the country to war under false pretenses. No more. As of
> today, American society has declared its support for the invasion, and as
> such is morally and politically culpable for every single one of those
> 100,000 dead, and every single one of the tens of thousands of deaths that
> are sure to follow.
> 
> To put it bluntly, Americans have chosen to return a man to the White House
> who has supervised the killing of more civilians than Slobodan Milosevic. We
> have signed onto a President who sanctions torture, who wantonly rejects any
> international treaty--Kyoto, the ABM and the International Criminal
> Court--that doesn’t suit his messianic agenda. Who truly believes “God
> Almighty” is on his side."
> 
Not all of us. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard the word
"secession" spoken in all seriousness in the past three days. Bush and the
bible-thumpers have managed to alienate an entire region of the country.
That region contains many of the most industrious, best educated,
innovative, and progressive people in the world. Where would America be
without New England and the Mid-Atlantic States?

We are sick and tired of being insulted. We are about to take our ball and
go home. Count the dead from Massachusetts and New York in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Count the dead from Massachusetts and New York who were on
those planes and in those buildings. The terrorists didn't attack Kansas.
They attacked us.

Now, we are insulted on a daily basis by the very countrymen for whom we
took those blows. They call us Eastern Intellectual Elite as if that were an
epithet. They even make fun of our accents as if pronouncing words correctly
were a sign of weakness. So, let them try fighting a war without our
technological, financial, and military expertise. See how far they get.