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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-04 04:04 PM
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This speaks volumes--Let the world vote...
Edited on Tue Sep-07-04 04:26 PM by blondeatlast
I LOVE this idea, except it ought to be done sooner than November 2.

Read this, from truthout (natch)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090704H.shtml

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It would be legitimate for all the peoples of the world to participate in the election of the United States' president.

And what if, this coming November 2, at the same time as millions of Americans, all the world's peoples went to the ballot box to vote? There would be legitimacy in their participation in the election of the president of the world's greatest power. Simply because their lives, their future, depend on it in one way or another. It would be a symbolic gesture, a universal speech in observation of a fact and a direct and unambiguous way of saying that the fate of the world depends in large part on the American presidency. The Vietnamese and the Chileans at one time, the Iraqis today, know something about that.

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Those who would rejoice in George W. Bush' reelection are Al-Qaeda's people- they've already said as much - because he's the one whose policies dovetail the best with their strategy. Hasn't the intervention in Iraq offered this movement's terrorists an opportunity to develop and to pass for resistance to a colonial occupation in the eyes of the Arab world?

If Bush is a misfortune for at least half of all Americans, he's a disaster for all those outside the United States who suffer the effects of his actions dictated by sketchy fundamentalist thinking.

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Symbolic, but effective.



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