Letters to the Editor
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Historical Precedent Of Choosing The President of the YUSA
Not to worry about it being 3 a.m. and who you (US citizens) want answering the phone. That is hardly the point at this point of time!
Go by historical precedent (or should that by hysterical precedent?):
-- In 2000 the US voting public chose GW Bush (and Dick Cheney) over Al Gore!
(Yes, there seems to have been some dirty tricks played at the cross roads, what with chads and dimples and the Supreme Court and so on... but anyway, US citizens accepted GW Bush to be their legal President as did Al Gore - so what's to complain about?)
-- In 2004 the the US voting public chose GW Bush (and Dick Cheney) over John Kerry. No dirty tricks here, apparently (except the Swift boats and various 'scare stories' thought up by Karl Rove...and the wise US voting public bought enough of Karl Rove's stories to put the Great Decider back in as President of the YUSA!).
-- There was demonstrated malfeasance and incompetence on the part of GW Bush and Dick Cheney and the whole administration right from the start...
-- There was the foolish war launched on the Taliban in Afghanistan when there were very effective ways to have dealt with the malefactors who 'did 9/11'. (Check out 'Avoid Osama's Trap', by Richard Haykel - http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/09/25/stories/05252523.htm, which demonstrated a wiser option that could well have worked)
-- Then came the REAL criminality: a war based on lies and cheating, non-existent WMDs, lies to US citizens; lies to US Congress; lies to the world. True, the war was against a mini-monster Saddam, that is true enough - but there were far, far better ways of dealing with Saddam than this stupid war)
-- There was Katrina and "Heck of a job, Brownie!"
-- There has been incompetence and malfeasance right down the line!
-- And still the wise US public has not thrown the scoundrel out, has not put him and his entire Gang of Thieves up for impeachment, has not put the Gang of Criminals into prison!
Look at all of that hysterical precedent, and it seems to become clear that the great US public will now choose John McCain (because he will be backed by THE GREAT DECIDER HIMSELF!).
Whatever: at the end of it all, unless things change around pretty fast, the US will get the President it truly deserves... and the rest of the world will get the US it truly deserves.
-- GSC