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> Open letter to the citizens of the United States of America

3 November 2004, 01:21

First let me tell you that U.S. citizens do hear many sides of many issues. Europe, for the most part, only hears the shrillest of our elite left, centered in NYC or Hollywood. I know this because I lived in the U.S. and now I live in the E.U. Your "PRAVDA" is a strange mix of conspiracy theories by Michael Moore, billionaire Soros and propaganda from Saddam Hussein, Bin Ladin and many of your own corrupt leaders who attempt to deflect your dissent at America.

1) The pipeline conspiracy theory popularized by Moore’s infomercials is utter nonsense, the pipeline was marginally strategic 20 years ago, but much has changed then. The collapse of the Soviet empire opened other oil routes which are much more cost effective.

2) You’re accusing Bush of lies, forgery, blackmail... Did you know that Saddam Hussein managed to get 10s of billions of euro around sanctions. That somewhere in europe, in the deepest levels of the U.N. there was corruption that allowed children to starve in exchange for security council votes?

3) Your claim that ’Saddam Hussein was the man telling the truth and that George Bush was the one who "stiffed the world". ’ Everyone including the U.N., Clinton and Saddam Hussein himself thought he had WMDs. Have you read the Duelfer report beyond the 3 word headlines?

4) Lone Ranger?You watch too much American T.V. Afraid of demonstrators? Sorry, our president isn’t a populist. Chirac and Schroeder may be populists, Hitler was a populist. Bush may have many failings but basing policy on a mob of misinformed london students isn’t one of them.

5) UN out of US/US out of UN? How about corruption out of U.N. and Europe pay for its own defense? Americans can abide by that.

6) You claim things are no better in Afghanistan. On what do you base this? The fact that women can vote now, the fact that the taliban is no longer in power, that Bin Ladin and his killers are no longer a welcome guest?

7) Yes terrorism and drugs were under control in the now dead totalitarian regimes of Iraq and Afghanistan. They were also under control in Hitler’s nazi germany. The good old days?

8) Abu Gharib was an aberration, it did not have the support of Bush or any but a handful of mentally ill GIs. Those involved are being brought to justice. Why do you conveniently overlook the mass murder that took place in the same prison under Hussein?

9) The U.S. spends billions on weapons designed to focus destruction and minimize casualties, yet terrible casualties do occur. I question the number and specifics coming from sources that are so keenly anti-U.S. biased on everything but I also understand that even a single civilian death in a war is wrong. But the recent Iraqi survey which gave the distressing news that Iraqis would like to move to shiara law (which failed miserably elsewhere), also showed that a substantial majority of Iraqis believe that things are improving there. The situation may not be improving for european profiteers who took advantage of the black market generated by the sanctions, but things are better for the Iraqis and the region is safer without Saddam in power. I thank the members of nations who understand that and helped rather than hindered this cause.

10) Informed Americans who read your tyrade and find gaping holes in your worldview might actually be more likely to vote for Bush.