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Open letter to George Bush

someone sent this to me in email. Enjoy:

Subject: OPEN LETTER TO GEORGE W. BUSH

Dear Mr. Bush,

I am so confused. Where exactly do you stand on the issue of Iraq?
You, your Dad, Rummy, Condi, Colin, and Wolfie -- you have all changed
your minds so many times, I am out of breath just trying to keep up
with you!

Which of these 10 positions that you, your family, your advisors and
your cabinet have taken over the years represents your current
thinking:

1983-88: WE LOVE SADDAM.
On December 19, 1983, Donald Rumsfeld was sent by your dad and Mr.
Reagan to go and have a friendly meeting with Saddam Hussein, the
dictator of Iraq. Rummy looked so happy in the picture. Just twelve
days after this visit, Saddam gassed thousands of Iranian troops. Your
dad and Rummy seemed pretty happy with the results because 'The Donald
R.' went back to have another chummy hang-out with Saddam's right-hand
man, Tariq Aziz, just four months later. All of this resulted in the
U.S. providing credits and loans to Iraq that enabled Saddam to buy
billions of dollars worth of weapons and chemical agents. The
Washington Post reported that your dad and Reagan let it be known to
their Arab allies that the Reagan/Bush administration wanted Iraq to
win its war with Iran and anyone who helped Saddam accomplish this was
a friend of ours.

1990: WE HATE SADDAM.
In 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait, your dad and his defense
secretary, Dick Cheney, decided they didn't like Saddam anymore so they
attacked Iraq and returned Kuwait to its rightful dictators.

1991: WE WANT SADDAM TO LIVE.
After the war, your dad and Cheney and Colin Powell told the Shiites
to rise up against Saddam and we would support them. So they rose up.
But then we changed our minds. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam,
the Bush inner circle changed its mind and decided NOT to help the
Shiites. Thus, they were massacred by Saddam.

1998: WE WANT SADDAM TO DIE.
In 1998, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and others, as part of the Project for
the New American Century, wrote an open letter to President Clinton
insisting he invade and topple Saddam Hussein.

2000: WE DON'T BELIEVE IN WAR AND NATION BUILDING.
Just three years later, during your debate with Al Gore in the 2000
election, when asked by the moderator Jim Lehrer where you stood when
it came to using force for regime change, you turned out to be a
downright pacifist:

"I--I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded
in my approach. I don't think we can be all things to all people in the
world. I think we've got to be very careful when we commit our troops.
The vice president [Al Gore] and I have a disagreement about the use of
troops. He believes in nation building. I--I would be very careful
about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the
military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from
happening in the first place. And so I take my--I take my--my
responsibility seriously." - October 3, 2000

2001 (early): WE DON'T BELIEVE SADDAM IS A THREAT.
When you took office in 2001, you sent your Secretary of State, Colin
Powell, and your National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, in front
of the cameras to assure the American people they need not worry about
Saddam Hussein. Here is what they said:

Powell: "We should constantly be reviewing our policies, constantly
be looking at those sanctions to make sure that they have directed that
purpose. That purpose is every bit as important now as it was 10 years
ago when we began it. And frankly, they have worked. He has not
developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass
destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his
neighbors." --February 24, 2001

Rice: "But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember
that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the
northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His
military forces have not been rebuilt." --July 29, 2001

2001 (late): WE BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US!
Just a few months later, in the hours and days after the 9/11
tragedy, you had no interest in going after Osama bin Laden. You wanted
only to bomb Iraq and kill Saddam and you then told all of America we
were under imminent threat because weapons of mass destruction were
coming our way. You led the American people to believe that Saddam had
something to do with Osama and 9/11. Without the UN's sanction, you
broke international law and invaded Iraq.

2003: WE DON'T BELIEVE SADDAM IS GOING TO KILL US.
After no WMDs were found, you changed your mind about why you said we
needed to invade, coming up with a brand new after-the-fact reason --
we started this war so we could have regime change, liberate Iraq and
give the Iraqis democracy!

2003: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!"
Yes, everyone saw you say it -- in costume, no less!

2004: OOPS. MISSION NOT ACCOMPLISHED!
Now you call the Iraq invasion a "catastrophic success." That's what
you called it this month. Over a thousand U.S. soldiers have died, Iraq
is in a state of total chaos where no one is safe, and you have no clue
how to get us out of there.

Mr. Bush, please tell us -- when will you change your mind again?

I know you hate the words "flip" and "flop," so I won't use them both
on you. In fact, I'll use just one: Flop. That is what you are. A huge,
colossal flop. The war is a flop, your advisors and the "intelligence"
they gave you is a flop, and now we are all a flop to the rest of the
world. Flop. Flop. Flop.

And you have the audacity to criticize John Kerry with what you call
the "many positions" he has taken on Iraq. By my count, he has taken
only one: He believed you. That was his position. You told him and the
rest of congress that Saddam had WMDs. So he -- and the vast majority
of Americans, even those who didn't vote for you -- believed you. You
see, Americans, like John Kerry, want to live in a country where they
can believe their president.

That was the one, single position John Kerry took. He didn't support
the war, he supported YOU. And YOU let him and this great country down.
And that is why tens of millions can't wait to get to the polls on
Election Day -- to remove a major, catastrophic flop from our dear,
beloved White House -- to stop all the flipping you and your men have
done, flipping us and the rest of the world off. Well thats it Bushy,
you will soon be history.

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