Open letter to Bush from an Arab girl

[kpete]

Open letter to Bush from an Arab girl
BY MIRA AL HUSSEIN
2 August 2006


President Bush,

................

In Arabic we have a saying that goes, "They murder the murdered and walk in his funeral." Allow me to interpret this for you, Mr Bush: Your precision-guided missiles shipment has arrived in Tel Aviv. These missiles will "precisely" fall onto Lebanese villages; kill hundreds; and displace thousands more. (Evidently, we’ve just witnessed the first "precise" target in Qana.)

Yet you have "compassionately" been able to send aid to Beirut, at the same time, with supplies for the thousands of people directly and fatally affected by your vocal, (im)moral and military support for Israel. Please include US flags in your aid shipment to Beirut; they must have burned all the US flags in stock.

Mr Bush, Lebanon can and will be rebuilt, but lost lives cannot be restored. Your credibility and your government’s credibility have long been lost — irretrievably lost like those lost innocent lives. People will not forget this though. They will not turn the other cheek; they will retaliate — just like you had chosen to retaliate after 9/11. Retaliation is a value you have successfully promoted by putting it into practice, always.

I was born too late to see how the British Empire had collapsed, but right on time to see how the American Empire is falling apart. Mr Bush, You will surely be remembered in history for hastening that process.

With no more respect to offer,

Mira Al Hussein

more at:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=opinion&xfile=data/opinion/2006/august/opinion_august4.xml

[Xipe Totec]

1. We lead by example

"Retaliation is a value you have successfully promoted by putting it into practice, always."

A sobering thought.

[slor]

2. It really hurts...

when it is true.

[AndyA]

3. Mira hasn't grasped the hypocrisy of the whole thing.

It's OK for Bush to do whatever he wants in the world, it is not OK for other countries to do the same thing Bush has done. Even though he set the example, other countries are out of line for thinking they can do the same thing as well.

[tavalon]

4. I think your link is broken

[kpete]

8. thanks

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=opinion&xfile=data/opinion/2006/august/opinion_august4.xml

[unda cova brutha]

5. she hit the nail on the haed with her letter.

[Jim__]

6. If bush reads the letter, do you think it will have any effect?

I think he's completely unreachable in his smug little bubble.

[johnnie]

7. bush read?

Fat chance.

[unda cova brutha]

9. he only read my petgoat.

[chimpymustgo]

10. K & R. Good letter. Not that he'd read it...if he could. nt

nt

[laura888]

11. Giving guns to your killers...

...and then sending you aid.

The only possible response to this is :wtf:

[Swamp Rat]

12. BAM!

Right on target Mira!

[grannylib]

13. Too bad the illiterate drunkard is too stupid to get this, even if someone

were to read it to him.
Right on, Mira...
He deserves no respect.
He's a dishonest, dishonorable liar, killer and thief.

[malaise]

14. Well said Mira

You speak for the planet.