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Here is a letter that I e-mailed to Mr. Bush. I hope you will all send something similar...not because I think it will influence anyone, but because I will want some company in Gitmo! :rofl:
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TO: Mr. George W. Bush, President, United States of America
10 October 2006
Dear Mr. Bush,
In the past six years our nation has changed dramatically. A budget surplus has been turned into a record deficit. Treaties that we have entered into in good faith have been unilaterally ignored by this nation if not outright dismissed, and fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of the United States of America have been comprimised in the name of "security." Additionally, your policy of refusing to engage in dialogue with nations that have opposing views has created foreign policy disasters in Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and North Korea.
It is clear, Mr. Bush, that you have no tolerance for views other than your own. And your own views are suspect, if not downright criminal. To date, you have legalized torture in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions, you have granted yourself and your administration blanket immunity for war crimes that you are responsible for, you have provided false justification for the conduct of an illegal war in Iraq and you have altered the law such that American citizens can be arrested and detained merely for exercising their right to free speech and dissent.
Thus I call upon you, Mr. Bush, to immediately resign the office of the presidency. You have brought shame to this nation. You have brought disrespect to this nation. You have increased the polarization of our society and created both foreign and domestic crises that will require decades for this nation to pull out of. While I have no doubt that you love America, the America you love is one that looks, acts and thinks as you do.
Please look, Mr. Bush, at your near-term prospects. Because of your actions and the actions of many in Congress, the Republicans are going to lose control of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Impeachment proceedings will almost surely follow, because citizen outrage over your policies and actions will demand it. And frankly, Mr. Bush, if it were up to me, it would not stop there. I am an advocate of having the next administration arrest you and turn you over to international authorities to be prosecuted for war crimes that you have committed in Iraq.
No doubt that you and your staff will consider me a radical crack-pot. I assure you that I am not. But I am an ordinary citizen who is fed up with a government that does not see itself as accountable to the people. The people should not fear the government; the government should fear its people. This nation has existed for 230 years because of the checks and balances inherent in our republic. Although you have attempted to dismantle these safeguards, they are still in place and your administration will be held accountable by the people.
I beseech you, Mr. Bush, to cease your failed war in Iraq, to avoid military action against Iran, and to immediately leave office. Please go no further along the path you are on. You and your administration threaten to bring this nation into the darkness of a dictatorship or, worse yet, a second civil war. I hope that if you truly love America, you will step aside and allow our government to begin fixing the mistakes of this administration before we lose all credibility in this world.
Yours truly, a deeply concerned citizen that loves this nation,
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