Dear fellow global citizens August 2002

I am writing this in desperate times. I have much to say about our war on the environment but what I want to focus on today is our war on the world. Folks, World War Three may have already begun. So please forward the following letter if you think WW III is a bad idea.

Dear fellow global citizens,

I am writing this letter in August of 2002 to call people into action to help stop the current military rampage of the United States government. If the matters in this letter concern you please write or call your elected officials and tell them how you feel on the issue.

This letter comes as a response to a speech Vice Pres. Dick Cheney gave to a group in San Francisco which was aired on public radio KPFA, 94.1 FM. Dick said that their are “terror cells” in 60 nations. He went on to say that the “war on terror” would not end with a treaty and that there would be NO negotiations. He said that the “war on terror” would only end with “complete annihilation”!

Think about the implications of what our second in command said. 60 nations!! We Americans need to wake up out of our patriotic fog and realize that the agenda of our government isn’t good for America and it isn’t good for the world. And the next country we are going to war with isn’t even one of those 60 nations. Our government didn’t find any connection between Sadam and the attack on the World Trade Center and yet we are going to war with him next. This is because the “war on terror” has nothing to do with what happened on 9/11. It is about greed, money, power, and a personal vendetta between George Bush Sr. and Sadam. Cheney said in his speech that war with Iraq is coming and that “America will not be threatened by anyone without our taking action.”

The people calling the shots right now are in the war business. Cheney, as Secretary of the Army hired the Halliburton Corp to come up with a plan to privatize the military. Then when he left office he became CEO of that very company making himself $30,000,000 in just two years. And now he’s back and he is waging a war with NO END! We must stop them.

Anyone who believes that military aggression on our part will end the terrorism we are claiming to fight only needs to look at the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to see they are wrong. Military action by Israel only increased the number of suicide bombings.

And our government wants to fight a dirty war without any accountability. Bush has said that America will not be a part of an international court to try crimes of war and that if any American is brought before that court the US military will invade The Hague! Invade the Netherlands.

People must begin to speak out, to yell out, in opposition to what is going on. The Bush administration has the overwhelming support of congress and is doing his best to ruin this country and destroy the world. We recently passed the largest military budget in history. This means less money for education, environmental programs, social programs, etc. Bush is driving this country into financial debt in his “war on terrorism.”

We are letting crooked greedy, and evil people run the show and it has to stop. Bush and Cheney are both corporate criminals. They both broke the very laws that are in the “corporate reform” bill. Insider trading, insider loans, misstating profits, they did it all. And in his same San Fran speech Cheney said that his war and oil company which misstated its profits by $430,000,000 dollars to trick the stock market while he was CEO is a fine company which he is proud to be a part of.

Many people are even unaware of the way in which these people came into power. They were not elected! The Bush clan had thousands of African American voters erased from the voter registries of Florida (thanks Jeb) before the elections. This is why they won. There is an NAACP law suit on the matter which our Attorney General Ashcroft is doing his best to squash. Good luck hearing about this in the corporate owned media.

I can go on complaining about these people all day but I’ll stop. But we must speak out against the war machine in this country. No country in the World is behind us in our war on Sadam. Expanding our War of Terrorism to 60 nations throughout the world is insane. We are talking about killing millions upon millions of people. The scariest thing for me is the fact that the people running our government right now come from the religious right. They BELIEVE in ARMAGEDDON as prophesized in the Bible. They believe that the East and West are destined to go to war, that the world we know will be destroyed, and that they, the chosen few, will be saved and allowed onto heaven. Manifest Destiny for the new millennium. Remember, WE are the only country that has ever used “weapons of mass destruction”, and we used them twice. Lets not strike out.

Please speak out in opposition of the War in Iraq, the War on Terrorism, and the Bush regime.

Thanks for your time,

Danny Boyer, a concerned citizen of the World