Friday, February 4, 2011

another unread open letter

Dear Mr. President,

Haven't we had enough with this "At least he's our s.o.b." business? To send a billion dollars to a repressive regime because it's 'not as bad' as others? To send lots of guns and such to this guy in Yemen to boot? To champion democracy yet prop up leaders who know how to say the right thing to us to get the money? We've already enabled the existence of Pinochet, Stalin, Somoza, Trujillo, Batista, Pahlavi, Niyazov, pre-1991 Saddam, and yet we still do the same with the likes of Mubarak.

For all your high-minded words, Mr. President, you're suggesting that the new ruler of the country be our CIA spook who's done a lot of nasty torturing business, some of it in our name?

The more I see of you, the more I'm glad I voted third party and didn't buy into all these platitudes of high-minded bullshit and hope and change. How are you any better than your predecessor or anyone else before him?

2 comments:

Randal Graves said...

Undead McCain would have been worse! Boo! Halloween! Spooky!

Yawn. Two sides of the same coin crusty with blood, one's simply less publicly overt about it.

Anonymous said...

a few more choice key words and you might at least get read by one of the nodes of Skynet out trawling the depths of cyberspace.