The last line of this excellent YouTube newscast with the backdrop of the World Trade Center hole, "May this country forgive you, [Mr. Bush]" is wrong. Neither this country nor the world has heard Mr. Bush admit he has been doing evil; no one has heard him repent; no one has heard him ask forgiveness. He cannot be and should not be forgiven without some work on his part that displays genuine contrition. The rest is quite correct. I'd like to see another similar no-minced-words newscast with the backdrop of New Orleans as the _other_ unmended hole in the fabric of America.
Mr. Bush's responses to events during his presidency sowed the wind with the noxious seeds of fear and hatred. Reaping the whirlwind may indeed bring on the Armageddon he preached.
I'd like the world to know that my friends and I are 450 Americans who did not fear and did not hate but, instead, opposed with all the assets at our command this march toward the day of destruction.
You who have been told that democracies are managed by governments responsive to the people: America is not so. Our leaders have brushed aside the will of the people and made imperial choices that the rest of us should not be held accountable for.
I and my friends are genuinely sorry for the violence, the suspension of human rights, the spying into our telephone and internet communication, the arrests without cause, the blackhole renditions, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Blackwater vigilantes, giving our tools of killing and torture to people who misuse them.
Forget Mr. Bush; forgive us, please.
John Dwyer |