[nukkad] Thank you, President Bush

["Mahesh chandra gupta" <>]

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Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.  - Titus Livy 
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The following is a forward from another site. It is an open letter 
to Bushman. Makes interesting and sensible and promising reading. 
I recommend reading it.

MC Gupta

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Thank you, President Bush


By Paulo Coelho
The author is a Brazilian writer.
This article was originally published in Portuguese on the Open 
Democracy Web site, at www.opendemocracy.net


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Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you for showing everyone what a danger Saddam Hussein 
represents. Many of us might otherwise have forgotten that he used 
chemical weapons against his own people, against the Kurds and 
against the Iranians. Hussein is a bloodthirsty dictator and one 
of the clearest expressions of evil in today's world.

But this is not my only reason for thanking you. During the first 
two months of 2003, you have shown the world a great many other 
important things and, therefore, deserve my gratitude.

So, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for showing everyone that the Turkish people and their 
parliament are not for sale, not even for 26 billion dollars. 
Thank you for revealing to the world the gulf that exists between 
the decisions made by those in power and the wishes of the 
people.

Thank you for making it clear that neither Jose Maria Aznar nor 
Tony Blair give the slightest weight to or show the slightest 
respect for the votes they received. Aznar is perfectly capable of 
ignoring the fact that 90 percent of Spaniards are against the 
war, and Blair is unmoved by the largest public demonstration to 
take place in England in the last 30 years.

Thank you for making it necessary for Blair to go to the British 
parliament with a fabricated dossier written by a student 10 years 
ago, and present this as "damning evidence collected by the 
British Secret Service."

Thank you for allowing Colin Powell to make a complete fool of 
himself by showing the UN Security Council photos which, one week 
later, were publicly challenged by Hans Blix, the inspector 
responsible for disarming Iraq.

Thank you for adopting your current position and thus ensuring 
that, at the plenary session, French Foreign Minister Dominique de 
Villepin's antiwar speech was greeted with applause - something, 
as far as I know, that has only happened once before in the 
history of the UN, after a speech by Nelson Mandela.

Thank you too, because, after all your efforts to promote war, the 
normally divided Arab nations, at their meeting in Cairo during 
the last week in February, were, for the first time, unanimous in 
their condemnation of any invasion.

Thank you for your rhetoric stating that "the UN now has a chance 
to demonstrate its relevance," a statement which made even the 
most reluctant countries take up a position opposing any attack on 
Iraq.

Thank you for your foreign policy which provoked British Foreign 
Secretary Jack Straw into declaring that in the 21st century, "a 
war can have a moral justification," thus causing him to lose all 
credibility.

Thank you for trying to divide a Europe that is currently 
struggling for unification; this was a warning that will not go 
unheeded.

Thank you for having achieved something that very few have so far 
managed to do in this century: bringing together millions of 
people on all continents to fight for the same idea, even though 
that idea is opposed to yours.

Thank you for making us feel once more that though our words may 
not be heard, they are at least spoken - this will make us 
stronger in the future.

Thank you for ignoring us, for marginalizing all those who oppose 
your decision, because the future of the planet belongs to the 
excluded. Thank you, because, without you, we would not have 
realized our own ability to mobilize. It may serve no purpose this 
time, but it will doubtless be useful later on.

Now that there seems no way of silencing the drums of war, I would 
like to say, as an ancient European king said to an invader: "May 
your morning be a beautiful one, may the sun shine on your 
soldiers' armor, for in the afternoon, I will defeat you."

Thank you for allowing us - an army of anonymous people filling 
the streets in an attempt to stop a process that is already 
underway - to know what it feels like to be powerless and to learn 
to grapple with that feeling and transform it.


So, enjoy your morning and whatever glory it may yet bring you.

Thank you for not listening to us and not taking us seriously, but 
know that we are listening to you and that we will not forget your 
words.

Thank you, great leader George W. Bush.

Thank you very much.


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of the vision of peace we carry inside us."


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