A letter to George Bush,
The Appointed president of the United States,
Dear George,
I read with much interest your statements and those of Collin Powell your messenger to the world and your voice in support the Zionist aggression against the innocent Palestinian civilians and Arabs. I am talking in particular about your comments about Iraq, the need for a regime change and the situation in the Arab world and Palestine under the Palestinian Authority when it comes to democracy and self-determination. Please allow me to point out a couple of things for you since I have read you biography and I understand that you do not “ like to read big books” so I will use my teaching skills for underachievers to help you understand a fact or two about the Arab world that your pappy told you it is called “ the Middle East.”
First, you call for a “ regime change” in Iraq, the land of the Tigers and the Euphrates that kicked many tyrants from Genghis Khan and his barbarians to the British in the middle of the twentieth century. Iraq, the cradle of civilization that gave you logarithms, architecture, astronomy, literature and anatomy when your ancestors in Europe were still debating if women had souls and hundreds of years before they tortured Galileo for promoting the idea that the earth is round. While I wholeheartedly agree with the call for a democratic Iraq and for that matter and for democratic regimes in every Arab country, you are the last one who should stick his smelly nose in the business of the Iraqi people.
Let me remind you that it was the CIA and the U.S government that forced prime minister of Iran Mussadaq in 1954, out of office and landed him in jail and killed him when it assisted the infamous Shah of Iran to return to power against the will or the heroic Iranian people. The apology of Madeline Albright forty five years later to the Iranian people did not serve anything to the Iranian people except for may be a piece of newspaper to wrap up their daily bread with.
George, it was the United States that invaded Lebanon in 1958 to impose Camille Chamoun a president on the people of Lebanon, despite the fact that the Lebanese parliament an the Lebanese people did not want to amend the constitution to allow him to run for office again. However, since he was a good CIA operative, Eisenhower saw it fit to land marines on the shores of Beirut to intimidate the Lebanese people and force them to accept Chamoun. The Marines finally left after they discovered that the Lebanese are of a different breed and threats to do not intimidate them.
Secondly, you were probably driving your pappy’s car in Houston, Texas and experimenting with cocaine when your pappy in the CIA and the war criminal Henry Kissinger pulled a coup de ta in Chile on September 11th, 1974, (what a coincidence huh) and killed the democratically elected president Allende’ because he threatened the “ interests” of the United States and specifically those of the five copper companies that operated in the region. It is the military take over that lead to the murder of more than 100,000 innocent civilians in a soccer field in Chile so the United States can maintain its steady supplies of copper to make pennies you can use in your gum machines. According to the war criminal Henry Kissinger, the reason for the coup was that the Chilean people proved that they “ were not mature enough” to elect a president freely since they elected a socialist president by an electoral majority.
Thirdly, George you say that you want to see a regime change in Iraq because it is a menace and constitute a “ threat to world peace” with its weapons of mass destruction. Let’s talk about that a little bit and may be we can find out who is the menace and who threatens world peace with weapons of mass destruction. Since you do not like to read fat books you probably do not know that the United States was the first country in the world to use weapons of mass destruction. The United States used the H-bomb against the Japanese and then Agent Orange against the poor innocent Vietnamese civilians and killed more than two millions of them and maimed more than 200,000 children who live till today with permanent disabilities. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of dollars that poor taxpayers like me have to pay to cover the medical expenses of the Vietnam war veterans who were exposed to Agent orange that the U.S government denied its side effects till the children of the generals who went to Vietnam started to suffer and they saw first hand the consequences of the use of biological weapons.
If your history information does not go that far back let me remind you of the war that the U.S launched against Iraq (the country that you pronounce Eyerak) when the United States and the allied troops used depleted uranium in their attacks on innocent civilian Iraqis causing tens of thousands of cases of cancer, leukemia, skin diseases and other serious birth defects. The matter is not important since the victims are Iraqis but who is paying the hundreds of millions of dollars in medical bills to cover the medical expenses and early retirement of the over 100,000 U.S troops and more of the NATO troops who were exposed to the same elements.
Dear George,
I know that I am boring you and you do not like to think that far ahead and that much about trivial matters like this since you want to watch your football and baseball games and eat your pretzels but these issues effect me, my life, my tax bill and the future of my children and my grandchildren. It also effects my basic human principles as I do not believe in taking a human life for no reason even if it means that I have to pay higher prices for gas, drive an electric car or ride a bicycle to work. If you were really serious about controlling weapons of mass destruction and bringing about world peace you would sign the Land Mines Ban Treaty now. If you were really concern about the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons you would abandon your AIPAC
(American Israeli Political Action Committee) ties at the expense of losing the next elections and force Israel to sign the international treaties on the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is the only country in the region that you call the Middle East ( it is the Near East George..we are the first after Turkey that is in Europe..the Arab world for thousands of years) that owns these weapons and refuse to allow inspections although some Israeli scientists are already complaining about the lack of safety in the Israeli nuclear plants and other plants that produce weapons of mass destruction.
Yes, Israel the country that you send four billion dollars a year to finance its military machine when two out of four of our children in Texas are underfed. When one out of two students in our classrooms in Austin receive subsidized meals and we have more homeless people than the population of some nations. Yes, Texas where we spend more money on recreational drugs than we spend on our entire energy bill to the Arabian Gulf countries and more. Yes, Texas, the state that you left two years ago with the ranking of the worst air quality in the nation. Yes, we beat California and Los Angeles Mr. President. What an achievement.
Dear George,
If you want me to believe you when you say that you care about humanity and human rights values why do not you sign and urge the Congress and the Senate to ratify the International Criminal Court Treaty that you denounced today. I know that you would not and cannot in order to protect the war criminals that you have in your cabinet, Cheney ( Gulf War and Vietnam), Rumsfeld, ( Vietnam and Afghanistan), Powell, ( Iraq invasion of 1992) and yourself in the last two years. I know that you would not because it means you will have to land Sharon, Perez, Mofaz and the rest of the criminals from Tel Aviv to visit you in the federal penitentiary rather than the Lincoln room in the White House.
George,
I do no believe you. No body believes you. My cat does not believe you. The only one that believes you is that idiot you see every morning when you brush your teeth before you go out to the world and open your mouth with lies. If you do not know whom I am talking about go to the mirror now and look. Look hard George.
Riad Hamad
Austin, Texas
B.A Middle Eastern Studies
B.A Political Science
B.A Economics
M.A. Political Science/Geography
M. Ed. Education/ History
M.Ed Technology
Currently working on a Ph.D. in Educational Technology/MBA and love to read fat books.
