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 A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War
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George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC
Dear Governor Bush:
So today is what you call "the moment of truth," the day that "France and the rest of world have to show their cards on the table." I'm glad to hear that this day has finally arrived. Because, I gotta tell ya, having survived 440 days of your lying and conniving, I wasn't sure if I could take much more. So I'm glad to hear that today is Truth Day, 'cause I got a few truths I would like to share with you:
1. There is virtually NO ONE in America (talk radio nutters and Fox News aside) who is gung-ho to go to war. Trust me on this one. Walk out of the White House and on to any street in America and try to find five people who are PASSIONATE about wanting to kill Iraqis. YOU WON'T FIND THEM! Why? 'Cause NO Iraqis have ever come here and killed any of us! No Iraqi has even threatened to do that. You see, this is how we average Americans think: If a certain so-and-so is not perceived as a threat to our lives, then, believe it or not, we don't want to kill him! Funny how that works!
2. The majority of Americans -- the ones who never elected you -- are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction. We know what the real issues are that affect our daily lives -- and none of them begin with I or end in Q. Here's what threatens us: two and a half million jobs lost since you took office, the stock market having become a cruel joke, no one knowing if their retirement funds are going to be there, gas now costs almost two dollars -- the list goes on and on. Bombing Iraq will not make any of this go away. Only you need to go away for things to improve.
3. As Bill Maher said last week, how bad do you have to suck to lose a popularity contest with Saddam Hussein? The whole world is against you, Mr. Bush. Count your fellow Americans among them.
4. The Pope has said this war is wrong, that it is a SIN. The Pope! But even worse, the Dixie Chicks have now come out against you! How bad does it have to get before you realize that you are an army of one on this war? Of course, this is a war you personally won't have to fight. Just like when you went AWOL while the poor were shipped to Vietnam in your place.
5. Of the 535 members of Congress, only ONE (Sen. Johnson of South Dakota) has an enlisted son or daughter in the armed forces! If you really want to stand up for America, please send your twin daughters over to Kuwait right now and let them don their chemical warfare suits. And let's see every member of Congress with a child of military age also sacrifice their kids for this war effort. What's that you say? You don't THINK so? Well, hey, guess what -- we don't think so either!
6. Finally, we love France. Yes, they have pulled some royal screw-ups. Yes, some of them can pretty damn annoying. But have you forgotten we wouldn't even have this country known as America if it weren't for the French? That it was their help in the Revolutionary War that won it for us? That our greatest thinkers and founding fathers -- Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc. -- spent many years in Paris where they refined the concepts that lead to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution? That it was France who gave us our Statue of Liberty, a Frenchman who built the Chevrolet, and a pair of French brothers who invented the movies? And now they are doing what only a good friend can do -- tell you the truth about yourself, straight, no b.s. Quit pissing on the French and thank them for getting it right for once. You know, you really should have traveled more (like once) before you took over. Your ignorance of the world has not only made you look stupid, it has painted you into a corner you can't get out of.
Well, cheer up -- there IS good news. If you do go through with this war, more than likely it will be over soon because I'm guessing there aren't a lot of Iraqis willing to lay down their lives to protect Saddam Hussein. After you "win" the war, you will enjoy a huge bump in the popularity polls as everyone loves a winner -- and who doesn't like to see a good A S S-whoopin' every now and then (especially when it 's some third world A S S!). So try your best to ride this victory all the way to next year's election. Of course, that's still a long ways away, so we'll all get to have a good hardy-har-har while we watch the economy sink even further down the toilet!
But, hey, who knows -- maybe you'll find Osama a few days before the election! See, start thinking like THAT! Keep hope alive! Kill Iraqis -- they got our oil!!
Yours, Michael Moore
http://www.michaelmoore.com
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 Re: A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War (Re: Elsadiq)
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الصادق
ومايكل مور
تانى الغبى دة داير يقولوه ليه شنو؟؟؟
الشعب الامريكى متمحن وبتفرج ، العالم كلو متمحن وبتفرج ، فى راجل شايل فكرة الحرب وحيدا ومصر عليها ، ركوب راس ، بلادة ، غضب شخصى ؟؟؟ المهم هو داير يخوض الحرب الحرب ، لا اقصد داير اولاد الناس يحاربوا ليه ويموتوا ليه واقتصاد امريكا يغرق ليه واطفال العراق يموتوا ليه وبترول امريكا يصعب على الجميع وينهار البنيان وتتكسر قلوب وتثكل الامهات
ومنظر حرب افغانستان وقصف الكهوف والابنية والمستشفيات ما زال عالقا باذهان العالم ، وشكرا للسى ان ان وهى بدل ما زى ما دايرة تفرج الناس على قوة امريكا ، فرجتهم على عار الحروب وجبن الاقوياء ، وضعف الضعفاء
وفى النهاية كل حروب العالم هى نتيجة عناد طاغية واحد زى بوش
فلتهنا يا بوش بغضبك الشخصى وحربك الضروس ، وليعبس كل العالم بطيوره الصافات وزهوره اليانعات وانسانيته المكلومة فيك، وتجاوزاتك للامم المتحدة، والطلاب للسلام الذين اتعبوا وعى العالم الجمعى بفكرة اللاحرب ، حتى تبتسم انت يابوش وترضى غرورك ، وتزغرد لك المدام......
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Re: A Letter to George W. Bush on the Eve of War (Re: Elsadiq)
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Can you imagine being prohibited…
…to buy essential computer software ?
…to inscribe to internationally renowned IT courses ?
…to possess a machine faster than 100 MHz ?
Dear Member of the General Assembly of IOI,
With this flyer, I would like to bring to your attention the current situation in my home country Sudan.
Since the Clinton era, Sudan has been suffering the severe consequences of US sanctions imposed on the IT sector.
The sanctions prohibit all companies that are subject to the U.S. Export Administration Laws and Regulations from exporting software and hardware to Sudan. These restrictions apply to most of the major software and hardware producers such as Adobe, Apple, Corel, IBM, Intel, Macromedia, Microsoft, Oracle and SUN Microsystems. By these regulations, Sudanese citizens are barred from purchasing, downloading, and importing essential computer software in use in offices all around the world, such as all Microsoft office products (Word, Excel, Access, etc), Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, Freehand, Corel Draw, Oracle database software, and many many more.
The sanctions extend to companies and learning centers offering IT courses and certificate programs. Learning centers such as New Horizons or Prometric are not allowed to include Sudanese citizens in any of their training programs, which include most of the familiar certificates like all the Microsoft certifications (MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MOUS), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) or Certified Lotus Professional (CLP).
By these two types of restrictions, Sudanese citizens and with them the country of the Sudan as a whole are hindered from technological progress.
Dear member of the GA. While I am writing this text, I am fully aware that neither you nor I have the means to directly change the current unfair situation. But both you and I do have the means to increase the awareness of more people about the situation, and by doing so, we might nevertheless bring about a change in the long run.
If you have an interest to help us with our campaign, you can send an email to [email protected] and we will keep you informed on any news.
You might also want to visit our homepage at http://www.sudadev.net, which will be set up in the very near future. This site will contain further details on the issue.
Thank you very much for your support.
Anour F. Dafa-Alla
Invited Observer of IOI 2002
Sudan
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كان هذا هو نص الخطاب التوعوى والإحتجاجى الذى وزعته على وفود 82 دولة مشاركة فى الأولمبياد الدولى للمعلوماتية فى يونق - أن كوريا الجنوبية الصيف الماضى...
ساعدنى فى صياغته السويسري المسلم عبد الله البر... تخيل ناس فى نفس المجال... لم يصلنى ولا أيميل واحد حتى هذه اللحظة...
أمريكا تفعل ما تريد... فقط المصالح هى ما تحكم اللوائح الأنسانية فى عرف الحكومات الأمريكية يا عزيزى الصادق...
الدعوة للجميع للمشاركة فى هذا الموضوع...
http://www.sudadev.net/
لكم منى كل الودّ
أنور
* IOI== International Olympiad in Informatics
* General Assembly== All the participating countries
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