Fwd: [COMMUNISM LIST]Who attacks freedom?: What Bush should have said

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Subject: [COMMUNISM LIST]Who attacks freedom?: What Bush should have said

Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 13:01:28 +0100

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Workers of the world unite!

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If we had a leader who told the truth.

Here's what President Bush said after the terrorist attack against the

World Trade Center and the military attack against the Pentagon:

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by faceless cowards. And

freedom will be defended.

I want to reassure the American people that the full resources of the

federal government are working to assist local authorities to save

lives and to help the victims of these attacks.

Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those

responsible for these cowardly acts. I've been in regular contact with

the vice president, secretary of defense, the national security team

and my cabinet. We have taken all appropriate security precautions to

protect the American people. Our military at home and around the world

is on high alert status and we've taken the necessary security

precautions to continue the functions of your government.

We have been in touch with the leaders of Congress and with world

leaders to assure them that we will do whatever is necessary to

protect America and Americans.

I ask the American people to join me in saying a thanks for all the

folks who have been fighting hard to rescue our fellow citizens and to

join me in saying a prayer for the victims and their families. The

resolve of our great nation is being tested. Make no mistake. We will

show the world that we will pass this test.

God bless.(1)

And here's what he should have said:

My fellow Americans. I would like to deeply and sincerely apologize to

you all, and particularly to those injured and to the loved ones of

those lost. You see, largely away from the public eye, my

administration and its predecessors have intervened without cease in

the affairs of other peoples.

But we have not intervened to advance freedom. We have not intervened

to advance democracy. We have not even intervened to protect the

interests of the relatively small population of this country.

Instead, we have intervened to advance the business interests of our

campaign contributors and networks of friends and advisers, to put

down the unrest of the many thousands of foreign people who are left

impoverished and disenfranchised by our economic policies, and to

ensure the military and political dominance of our country over other

nations.

In the last ten years alone America's manipulation of the politics and

economies of other people has led us to impose economic policies that

reduce access to health care and education in poor countries like

Argentina, Turkey, and South Korea. It has led us to arm the

governments of countries like Colombia, Israel, Indonesia, and Turkey

that themselves use terror - but on a much larger scale than seen

today - to suppress the desires of their own people. And it has led us

to brutally attack the Iraqi people with both bombs and sanctions in

order to cripple their dictator, in the process killing perhaps two

hundred innocent Iraqis for every one innocent American who died

today.

I apologize on behalf of my own administration, but also on behalf of

the Clinton administration, the first Bush administration, the Reagan

administration, and previous governments stretching back to the very

founding of the country, all of which used military and economic power

to conquer other lands, choose their political leaders, or set their

economic policies. I apologize on behalf of both Democrats and

Republicans, virtually all of whom have unquestioningly supported

these actions. I apologize on behalf of the business leaders whose

interests have motivated these actions. And I apologize on behalf of

the news media, which have suppressed discussion of the tremendous

negative effects of our foreign policy and which will, in this

particular case, refuse to raise the question of why foreigners would

be so angry at our country.

Please accept this apology. Your leaders, without your knowledge or

consent, have used the tremendous power of your country to

institutionalize inequality and militarism worldwide. While acting in

your name, we have pursued the interests of a narrow, tremendously

powerful section of the population. And it is for this reason that you

suffer today.

I ask the American people to oppose the attacks that this disaster

will surely bring against our civil liberties and against our

residents of Middle Eastern descent. Together we must resist the urge

to intensify a spiral of retribution and violence, and work instead

toward a world in which no one feels so powerless or oppressed that he

or she must resort to violence.

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