********************************************************
VISIT OUR WEBSITE
http://www.africanassociation.org
FOR COMMUNITY NEWS......
********************************************************
So...Obama should do what 'Michael' tells him to do?
******************************
"In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand carried down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping villagers.
This took a great deal of time."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter R. Munoz" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:27 am
Subject: FW: An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
To: [log in to unmask]
> ********************************************************
>
> VISIT OUR WEBSITE
>
> http://www.africanassociation.org
>
> FOR COMMUNITY NEWS......
>
> ********************************************************
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:30:48 -0500
>
>
> An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
>
> Monday, November 30th, 2009
>
> Dear President Obama,
>
> Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West
> Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are
> increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you
> are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do
> the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams
> so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow
> night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone
> of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what
> they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I
> simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to
> do. Please say it isn't so.
>
> It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a
> civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the
> other way around. That's the way General Washington insisted it must
> be. That's what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur
> wanted to invade China. "You're fired!," said Truman, and that was
> that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the
> press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be
> blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate
> these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin
> Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has
> since sought redemption).
>
> So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday
> (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea -- "Let's invade
> Afghanistan!" Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR
> coffin.
>
> There's a reason they don't call Afghanistan the "Garden State"
> (though they probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai,
> whom we back, has his brother in the heroin trade raising poppies).
> Afghanistan's nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't
> believe it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan
> but I lost his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. It's + 41
> 22 789 1662. I'm sure he could give you an earful about the historic
> blunder you're about to commit.
>
> With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young
> men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed,
> the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head,
> full throttle, into oblivion if you become the "war president."
> Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires
> think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line -- and
> yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds.
>
> Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it
> doesn't have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to
> your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good
> can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place
> neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither
> you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You
> can feel it in your bones.
>
> I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in
> Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys
> living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I
> refuse to believe it.
>
> Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you're
> doing it so you can "end the war") will do more to set your legacy in
> stone than any of the great things you've said and done in your first
> year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the
> coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone -- and this
> nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can
> shout "tea bag!"
>
> Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to
> abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and
> that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots
> who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning.
>
> We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of
> hope. But we the people can't take it anymore. We can't take your
> caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of
> millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of "landslide
> victory" don't you understand?
>
> Don't be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into
> Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the
> haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and
> every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You
> could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still
> wouldn't be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant
> venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you
> can't change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the
> edge.
>
> The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can't be won
> over by abandoning the rest of us.
>
> President Obama, it's time to come home. Ask your neighbors in
> Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting
> and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to
> Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, "No, we don't need health
> care, we don't need jobs, we don't need homes. You go on ahead, Mr.
> President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas,
> 'cause we don't need them, either."
>
> What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother
> do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no
> threat to them, that's what they'd do. Not spend billions and
> trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the
> streets and standing in bread lines.
>
> All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your
> victory have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes
> committed in our name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of
> rights, invading nations who had not attacked us, blowing up
> neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be in (but never was), slaughtering
> wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as hundreds of thousands of
> Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of thousands of our brave
> young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured mental anguish --
> the full terror of which we scarcely know.
>
> When we elected you we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect
> much change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the
> madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can
> reorganize a nation that doesn't even function as a nation and never,
> ever has.
>
> Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and
> Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the
> future of our nation, stop. For God's sake, stop.
>
> Tonight we still have hope.
>
> Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON'T have to
> do this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother's
> son.
>
> We're counting on you.
>
> Yours,
> Michael Moore
> [log in to unmask]
> MichaelMoore.com
>
> P.S. There's still time to have your voice heard. Call the White
> House at 202-456-1111 or email the President.
>
>
> Join Mike's Mailing List | Join Mike's Facebook Group | Follow Mike
> on Twitter | Become Mike's MySpace Friend
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You are currently subscribed to michaelmoore as: [log in to unmask]
>
> Add [log in to unmask] to your email address book to ensure
> delivery
> Forward to a Friend | Manage Subscription | Subscribe | Unsubscribe
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection.
> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/
> *** Send email to the list: [log in to unmask] ***
> *** Access AAM list archives:
> http://listserv.icors.org/archives/AAM.html ***
>
>
>
>
>
*** Send email to the list: [log in to unmask] ***
*** Access AAM list archives: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/AAM.html ***
|
