perry@Vote.Nader.2004 wrote in message news:<ff9375a0.4d7c2936@host-69-48-73-244.roc.choiceone.net>...
> We have been down this road before.
>
> U.S. troops sent to war half a world away. American foreign policy
> controlled by an arrogant elite, bent on projecting military power
> around the globe. A public misled into supporting an unconstitutional
> war founded on deceit and fabrications.
>
> As the death toll mounts, we hear claims that the war is nearly won,
> that victory is just around the corner. But victory never arrives.
>
> As the public loses confidence in the government, the government
> questions the patriotism of any who express doubt about the war.
>
> When a presidential election arrives, both the Democrat and Republican
> nominees embrace the policy of continued war.
>
> The military draft comes to dominate the lives of America's young, and
> vast numbers who believe the war to be a senseless blunder are faced
> with fighting a war they do not believe in, or facing exile or prison.
>
> The year was 1968. Because voters had no choice that November, the
> Vietnam War continued for another six years. Hundreds of thousands of
> Americans like you died, were maimed, or suffered from diseases like
> malaria. A far greater number of Vietnamese died.
>
> Today, the war is in the quicksands and alleys of Iraq. Once again,
> under the pressure of a determined resistance, we see an American war
> policy being slowly torn apart at the seams, while the candidates urge
> us to "stay the course" in this tragic misadventure. Today's
> Presidential candidates are not Nixon and Humphrey, they are now Bush
> and Kerry.
>
> Once again, there is one overriding truth: If war is the only choice in
> this election, then war we will have.
>
> Today enlistments in the Reserves and National Guard are declining. The
> Pentagon is quietly recruiting new members to fill local draft boards,
> as the machinery for drafting a new generation of young Americans is
> being quietly put into place.
>
> Young Americans need to know that a train is coming, and it could run
> over their generation in the same way that the Vietnam War devastated
> the lives of those who came of age in the sixties.
>
> I am running for President, and have been against this war from the
> beginning. We must not waste lives in order to control and waste more
> oil. Stand with us and we may yet salvage your future and Americas'
> future from this looming disaster.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ralph Nader
>
> HTTP://WWW.VOTENADER.ORG
This country is disgraced with this war in Iraq... To quote Fox
Mulder:
"The powerful use fear to distract the public from seeing what the
elite are doing."
This was from an episode I believe produced back in 1994 or 1995, but
its quite valid today. Bush has used the fear of terrorism to blind
many Americans to the damage he has been doing to the fabric of
American society and the American way of life. I, for one, will do my
part and prevent this from continuing. BTW, that doesn't mean I'm
voting for Nader. Kerry may not become a "great" president, but a
mediocre president who represents the America I knew and cherished is
far better than a "good" president who works to destroy the American
way of life from within. Kerry 2004 all the way. And may God have
mercy on us all if he should happen to lose...
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