I'm confused but it ain't the first time.
March/13/06 06:29 PM
Mr. President,
"You were either with us or against us" summed up your foreign policy and it unceremoniously continued until yesterday.
Now you are asking us to open our minds to adjust our views and become citizens of the world.
This radical shift seems way out of place in light of what you have done during your presidency.
You have:
I could go on, but I think you get the drift.
Have you learned the limits to American power? Do you understand you are not the imperial ruler you thought you would be?
You have been checked by large and small countries all around the world. So you now realize you need them, you need their money, and their support? Are you starting to finally realize how short sighted you have been?
No, I don't believe it.
You are guided by self interest more than what is good for our country. You routinely ignore everything that does not directly benefit either you or your major Republican donors.
I believe you are worried Prince Bandar, a long-time friend of the Bush family, who donated $1 million to your Presidential Library in College Station, will ask for his money back after the UAE port the fiasco.
It's time for another hand-holding session with Saudi Prince Abdullah.
So, my short answer is, Americans will think globally when you start acting globally.
I'll tell you what; the UN recently called for more money from international donors for the 3 million people in Darfur who need food, water and health services,. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are starving now. At least 180,000 have already died. Thousands more will die unless they soon get help.
Darfur doesn't' have oil, or precious metals and there are no major corporations involved. So let's see if you do anything other than give lip service to this deadly situation. Lets see how altruistic you really are.
Go ahead junior make a
liar out me.
The new president of Bolivia has a sense of humor. Does Condi?
Condi went to South America recently. Her job; to stop the left leaning trend in Latin American politics. Her cover; pretend she cares about the inauguration of Chile's first woman president.
I imagine Condi wore her best set of Manolos and smiled a lot when she met Latin America's latest leftist leader, Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia.
She kept smiling as Morales, presented her with a charango, a small ukelele-looking instrument, which is considered to be the ancestor to the guitar.
It is traditional Andean, it has five pairs of strings and it is made with Bolivian coca leaves.
Despite the United States efforts, to eliminate coca crops in South America some of them still wound up on Condi's new present.
Morales, a former head of Bolivia's coca growers union and a comrade of Hugo Chavez, proclaims himself to be "Washington's worst nightmare."
The gift was indicative of the sour notes between the two countries.
The State department was last seen checking with customs to see whether they could bring it into the country.
Did Condi, recognize the rhythm, the pitch, the subtle but striking message from Morales?
I like this guy. He's funny. He also took the opportunity to invite you to Bolivia while Condi was there.
Prime Minister Tony Blair is pulling 800 troops out of Iraq in May.
Hooray!
"This is a significant reduction which is based largely on the ability of the Iraqis themselves to participate and defend themselves against terrorism, but there is a long, long way to go," Defense Secretary John Reid, said.
Troop levels have been steadily withdrawn since may 2004. Britain originally had 46,000 personnel stationed in Iraq in 2003; troop levels dropped to 8,500 at the end of 2005.
Reid explained there were 190,000 trained Iraqi security forces in October and now total 235,000 with 5,000 joining every month.
I see an exit strategy! If Blair can use that line so can you. You of all people know it doesn't have to be true. Inflate the numbers a little more than Reid has already done and you are home buddy.
Bring out the aircraft carrier, print the banners and put on that flight suit!
Upstart liberal terrorist-loving Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin formally proposed your censure today for authorizing domestic eavesdropping and saying you misled Americans about its legality.
It is not as though you are going to jail it's just a slap on the wrist.
Frist and Cheney called it a crazy political stunt.
Feingold just wants an admission you did something wrong.
Other Democrats aren't exactly running to his side, but a lot of Republicans say he is aiding the enemy.
Can't you charge him with sedition?
Under the Sedition Act, anyone "opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States" could be imprisoned for up to two years. It was also illegal to "write, print, utter, or publish" anything critical of the president or Congress.
According to the Government archives
"The laws were directed
against Democratic-Republicans, the party
typically favored by new citizens, and the only
journalists prosecuted under the Sedition Act
were editors of Democratic-Republican
newspapers. Sedition Act trials, along with the
Senate’s use of its contempt powers to
suppress dissent, set off a firestorm of
criticism against the Federalists and
contributed to their defeat in the election of
1800, after which the acts were repealed or
allowed to expire. The controversies surrounding
them, however, provided for some of the first
testings of the limits on freedom of speech and
press."
Couldn't you resurrect these laws because of the threat from terrorism?
If you can't use them against Feingold you can surely use them against a lot off bloggers and liberal newspapers.
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From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: March 14, 2006 2:27:24 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
"You were either with us or against us" summed up your foreign policy and it unceremoniously continued until yesterday.
Now you are asking us to open our minds to adjust our views and become citizens of the world.
This radical shift seems way out of place in light of what you have done during your presidency.
You have:
- totally rejected the Kyoto Protocol with other countries.
- refused to get involved with Israeli-Palestine relations.
- refused to be part of the International Criminal Court system
- disemboweled the nuclear disarmament treaty.
- chosen to go into Iraq without UN support.
- invaded a sovereign country without any consensus from the European Union.
- ignored Central and South America even when they elect leftist governments.
- ignored world hunger and genocide in Darfur.
- refused to contribute towards AIDS prevention unless countries disavow use of condoms.
I could go on, but I think you get the drift.
Have you learned the limits to American power? Do you understand you are not the imperial ruler you thought you would be?
You have been checked by large and small countries all around the world. So you now realize you need them, you need their money, and their support? Are you starting to finally realize how short sighted you have been?
No, I don't believe it.
You are guided by self interest more than what is good for our country. You routinely ignore everything that does not directly benefit either you or your major Republican donors.
I believe you are worried Prince Bandar, a long-time friend of the Bush family, who donated $1 million to your Presidential Library in College Station, will ask for his money back after the UAE port the fiasco.
It's time for another hand-holding session with Saudi Prince Abdullah.
So, my short answer is, Americans will think globally when you start acting globally.
I'll tell you what; the UN recently called for more money from international donors for the 3 million people in Darfur who need food, water and health services,. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are starving now. At least 180,000 have already died. Thousands more will die unless they soon get help.
Darfur doesn't' have oil, or precious metals and there are no major corporations involved. So let's see if you do anything other than give lip service to this deadly situation. Lets see how altruistic you really are.
Go ahead junior make a
liar out me.
The new president of Bolivia has a sense of humor. Does Condi?
Condi went to South America recently. Her job; to stop the left leaning trend in Latin American politics. Her cover; pretend she cares about the inauguration of Chile's first woman president.
I imagine Condi wore her best set of Manolos and smiled a lot when she met Latin America's latest leftist leader, Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia.
She kept smiling as Morales, presented her with a charango, a small ukelele-looking instrument, which is considered to be the ancestor to the guitar.
It is traditional Andean, it has five pairs of strings and it is made with Bolivian coca leaves.
Despite the United States efforts, to eliminate coca crops in South America some of them still wound up on Condi's new present.
Morales, a former head of Bolivia's coca growers union and a comrade of Hugo Chavez, proclaims himself to be "Washington's worst nightmare."
The gift was indicative of the sour notes between the two countries.
The State department was last seen checking with customs to see whether they could bring it into the country.
Did Condi, recognize the rhythm, the pitch, the subtle but striking message from Morales?
I like this guy. He's funny. He also took the opportunity to invite you to Bolivia while Condi was there.
Prime Minister Tony Blair is pulling 800 troops out of Iraq in May.
Hooray!
"This is a significant reduction which is based largely on the ability of the Iraqis themselves to participate and defend themselves against terrorism, but there is a long, long way to go," Defense Secretary John Reid, said.
Troop levels have been steadily withdrawn since may 2004. Britain originally had 46,000 personnel stationed in Iraq in 2003; troop levels dropped to 8,500 at the end of 2005.
Reid explained there were 190,000 trained Iraqi security forces in October and now total 235,000 with 5,000 joining every month.
I see an exit strategy! If Blair can use that line so can you. You of all people know it doesn't have to be true. Inflate the numbers a little more than Reid has already done and you are home buddy.
Bring out the aircraft carrier, print the banners and put on that flight suit!
Upstart liberal terrorist-loving Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold, from Wisconsin formally proposed your censure today for authorizing domestic eavesdropping and saying you misled Americans about its legality.
It is not as though you are going to jail it's just a slap on the wrist.
Frist and Cheney called it a crazy political stunt.
Feingold just wants an admission you did something wrong.
Other Democrats aren't exactly running to his side, but a lot of Republicans say he is aiding the enemy.
Can't you charge him with sedition?
Under the Sedition Act, anyone "opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States" could be imprisoned for up to two years. It was also illegal to "write, print, utter, or publish" anything critical of the president or Congress.
According to the Government archives
"The laws were directed
against Democratic-Republicans, the party
typically favored by new citizens, and the only
journalists prosecuted under the Sedition Act
were editors of Democratic-Republican
newspapers. Sedition Act trials, along with the
Senate’s use of its contempt powers to
suppress dissent, set off a firestorm of
criticism against the Federalists and
contributed to their defeat in the election of
1800, after which the acts were repealed or
allowed to expire. The controversies surrounding
them, however, provided for some of the first
testings of the limits on freedom of speech and
press."
Couldn't you resurrect these laws because of the threat from terrorism?
If you can't use them against Feingold you can surely use them against a lot off bloggers and liberal newspapers.
The original e-mail failed to arrive because:
The original message was received at Tue, 14 Mar 2006 12:18:29 -0800 (PST)
from smtpin04-en2 [10.13.10.149]
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I resent it without the graphics and I received this :
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: March 14, 2006 2:27:24 PM CST
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House is
unable to respond to every message, and therefore this response
is an autoreply.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.