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Politics. American Politics. As a Canadian it's none of my business but with the global repercussions Bush has caused, isn't it?
I received Michael Moore's newsletter on the internet last night and just had to cheer him on in the following reply. If you think it may be everyone's business, maybe you can appreciate my reply.
As for the topic in this string, zip on down to the second from last paragraph: now that he's plunged America into this mess, only an honorable exit (read slowly with a commitment to minimize damage to all legitimate parties) will do, whoever is in charge a year from now.
DenCentral
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Begin forwarded message:
From: Dennis Benoit
Date: April 14, 2004 10:09:16 PM EDT
To: mmflint@aol.com
Subject: Fahrenheit 911
Hi Mike,
I'm a longtime fan from Canada. I would be a Democrat if GWB were to invade here. But that's not going to happen, because then you'd just inherit a huge block of Democrats – if Republicans haven't banned elections and crowned an emperor by that point.
The last four years have been the strangest in living memory, the most tense and Orwellian since the Reagan-USSR nuclear faceoff. Here was a president that had a shaky hold on his stolen office until the WTC attack. By then he had already succeeded in alienating the outside world, walking the U.S. away from several multilateral agreements on AIDS, the environment, you know things we all care about.
He snubbed Canada immediately after 9/11 by listing in a speech dozens of countries that came to your aid, but somehow this vindictive, petty White House insisted, they forgot Canada. Canada, where thousands of Americans flying in that morning took refuge until air travel resumed, and where thousands of new friendships among ordinary Americans and Canadians began in tragedy.
The snubs started before we refused to plunge into Bush's quixotic response to terror, Iraq. That earned our now-retired Prime Minister the cancelation ("postponement") of a presidential visit to Ottawa last May.
But hell, Bush is not quixotic, if we were to see the whole story; surely there was some reason for these men to strike off on a 180° course to deal with terrorism ("I saw him run out the front door - I'll go out the back and shoot all the neighbours!").
Bush and his merry band of corporate rapists have simply screwed up. They were too clever by half, attempting to pull off the most brazen daylight robbery of money, power and oil in world history and consigning the Enron scandal to the junior leagues. But I have no doubt they sincerely thought they knew what they were doing.
They thought they could go in and get out before Americans would catch on that the great power of their nation and of the White House had been seriously abused for the sake of corporate and dynastic ambition.
What I don't understand is how the Republicans failed to absorb the lessons of Vietnam and Mogadishu. I guess they thought they had that licked too, embedding journalists to get the Right Light on the news. But "the truth will out": the internet, home video, Rodney King, Michael Moore and other independent new sources have arrived to counter today's right wing corporate media and this is why, as you said in today's Heads Up, it hasn't taken four years this time for America to catch on compared to Vietnam.
But I don't understand why it came to this, why Enron and the stock bust weren't enough to satisfy corporate greed, why your authorities had to plunge us all into World War III to secure this degree of power and oil security. There is something dire these corporate scions aren't telling us, and chilling passages on the future in your latest book I don't enjoy contemplating that probably explain a lot of it.
As I write this, the CBC broadcast is telling how Bush agreed with Sharon in Washington today to supporting against world law permanent Israeli settlements in the Palestinian "disengagement". You will hear from allies tomorrow on this, and from the Arab streets for some time to come. Militants in Iraq today have since already killed off the first of four Italian hostages.
The streets will respond with violence. Your friends will be politely trying to tell you, "George Bush is a cancer. PLEASE dump this cancer with the next election!" Every bad news item out of Iraq is regretfully cause for cheer, that American democracy will ultimately sweep the Bush Star Chamber away – for now.
But for now, America is hip deep in a new Vietnam. Gain world help. Let us all nurture the people of Iraq to claim a democracy, now that the Republicans have opened a literal Pandora's Box of biblical proportions. A new president should stay, now that you're in Iraq, but on the world's terms not Haliburton's.
If you do in fact personally read this, I hope I added to your insights but I won't take any more of your time as I am excited to hear that you are working on your next film, Fahrenheit 911. You haven't projected a date, but I sincerely hope you have it up on screens before the next US election! I know that's very tight but otherwise why bother?
Go Man Go!
"Re-Elect Gore in 2004"
Dennis Benoit
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