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Bush lacks the credibility to criticize Ukraine's election

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Saturday, December 04, 2004

My jaw dropped when I read that the Bush administration was upset
about the election in the Ukraine because of alleged fraud ("Bush
speaks out on Iran's nuclear program, Ukrainian election," Nov. 28).
Isn't this the same Bush team that encouraged intimidation and
exclusion of voters to win the 2004 election (to say nothing of the
2000 election)?

The same Republican team, during this election, reacted to every
situation in a partisan way. It threatened to challenge primarily
Democratic voters on grounds known to be frivolous. It used a felon
list that it had reason to know did not include voters who would be
presumed to be Republican, while it included presumably Democratic
voters, and, when that did not work, it waved the list around just
before the election to try to intimidate those same minority voters.
It opposed efforts to permit people to vote whose registrations were
excluded on a technicality (e.g., failing to check the "citizenship
box," even though the voter swore she was a citizen and public records
confirmed it). International observers of our elections also found
many problems here. Many were surprised (and appalled) at the partisan
nature of our election administration process. Somehow, this
Republican administration has no credibility with me when it comes to
protecting the rights of voters. As it says in the Bible, "Physician,
heal thyself."

Maybe there was election fraud in the Ukraine. I certainly would trust
a report from Jackie Winchester, who, The Post reported, was one of
the international monitors there, before I would trust the Republican
administration.

JILL HANSON

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Everytime a neocon hypocrite opens his/her mouth we have to take a shower to remove the toxic pollutants.

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Does God punish the losers in a struggle or contest?

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Friday, December 03, 2004 12:17 PM

Recent USA elections focused the intensity of the evangelical
Christians and their total support for Bush and the Republican Party.
Over 100 million evangelical Christians threw their undying support
behind Bush and were without doubt responsible for Bush’s re-election.

Bush senior in his 1991 invasion of Iraq said, “And if Saddam is not
out of Kuwait in 36 hours we will kick his butt because God is on our
side.” G.W. is infamous for his statements that he had a vision from
God who told him to take out Saddam.

The misinformation Bush and his administrations fed to the world was
proven to be false without one apology for the thousands of deaths he
has caused the innocent Iraqi people and more than 1,000 American
young men he sent into battle, all in the name of his values, visions
and messages from God.

These values are obviously shared by the evangelical Christians who
back Bush in his killing spree. So many times in history man has
invoked the name of God while killing and plundering.

Are we to believe that Bush and his Christian God is a killing god
that uses his believers to murder and lie through their teeth in order
to gain leverage in the world?

In American sports of football and boxing it is disgusting to see the
winner exclaim, “First, I want to thank my Lord and savior for giving
me this win.” Are we to believe then that God punishes the losers?

Petro Hoy

Kula



U.S. headed for corporate-religious authoritarianism

President Bush claims he won a mandate, but he really limped over the
election finish line with a tiny, 1 percent, fraud-marred majority.

Now with the wholesale purges in his administration we will find that
this new group will indeed hasten the U.S.’s degeneration into
corporate-religious authoritarianism. The Bush regime’s devotion to
big oil, the military, tax cuts, corporate deregulation and unbridled
executive power has nothing to do with conservative principles or
moral values.

No deep beliefs or high ideals inform the Bushists except raw,
secretive political power unfettered by courts, laws, legislators or
public scrutiny. Bushist militarists have crude minds, just keeping
the people scared with war and rumors of war.

When we should protest, the sin of silence makes cowards of us.

Gary Zimmerman

Kihei

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Bob Jones' letter showed arrogance

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December 4, 2004

I just read Ina Hughs' Nov. 30 column, and I offer a hearty amen. The
absolute arrogance demonstrated by Bob Jones in his open letter to
George W. Bush is disheartening but not surprising. The extreme right
wing in this country would like to claim credit for putting their man
back in office, that he has a mandate and that anyone who doesn't like
it can get out of the way or be steamrolled.

President Bush won the election, to be sure. But nearly half the
country voted the other way. He should remember that, and so should
those who are looking forward to four more years of "my way or the
highway."

Finally, to return to Jones: I am neither a pagan nor a heathen. I am
a Christian, sold out totally to my Lord Jesus Christ. I am also what
you would probably call a liberal. And I resent Jones' statement that
liberals despise Christ. What he has said, in my humble opinion, is so
hateful, so full of poison and so contrary to what I believe Jesus
stands for that I have a hard time believing it came from the lips of
what some would call a godly man.

If he wants to debate politics, I'll do that any time, and while I may
disagree with him, I'll respect his point of view.

But do not dare question my faithfulness to Christ or my love for my
country.

MIKE CLARK

Seymour



No one should try to speak for God

Kudos to Ina Hughs for speaking out against the polemics of Bob Jones.
No one - whether president of his own little college, president of
Harvard University or even president of this country - should presume
to speak for God, who has spoken eloquently in His Scriptures about
love and hate.

Further, this country and the world need to remember that the
Religious Right does not speak for the majority of Christians.

FRAN WHEELER

Knoxville

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A nation divided by GOP

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Friday, December 03, 2004 - 11:52:46 AM EST

To the Editor of THE EAGLE:-

The Milton Bass column on the national election (Sunday, Nov. 28)
ought to be framed and nailed to the doors of the White House.

Recently I returned from a post-election trip to Europe. No, the
Europeans do not hate us. They are merely embarrassed for us, unable
to understand why we chose to elect Bush for president when the man
does his best to rob us from our better selves, to divide us from each
other and from the rest of the world.

Still, we have never been a truly united country. During the
Revolutionary War we were divided between loyalty to that earlier
George and loyalty to the new concept of a free state. The loyalists
to the crown went north and became Canadians; the rest of us formed
the United States of America.

But we were not really united. The North and the South were divided
over the issue of slavery. Lincoln, the Republican, freed the slaves
-- at least that was his intent. The South turned against him and his
Republican Party. That was the beginning of the solidly Democratic
South. But in 1964 a Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson, took another stab at
freeing the slaves and, following in the footsteps of Jesse Helms,
Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace, the South turned its back upon the
Democratic Party and became the Solid South of the Republican Party.
If Lincoln were alive today there is no doubt that he would be a
Democrat.

Perhaps it might have been best if Lincoln had not tried to save the
fractured union. Perhaps, like Canada, the North and the South should
have become separate nations. Certainly we are no less divided today
then we were during the Civil War. Thanks to George W. Bush and the
other radicals who have captured the White House and hope to corrupt
the Constitution with their heady Orwellian slogans, we are once again
at each other's throats: brother against brother, sister against
sister, friend against friend.

I weep for our bleeding nation, for the bleeding U.S. soldiers and
Iraqi civilians, and pray that the bloodshed will end. But will God
hear my prayer? After all he is now a captive of the Republican Party.

ROCCO FUMENTO

Dalton, Dec. 2, 2004

I remain baffled by his ability to preach to other nations!!--about what their responsiblies/duties are.. He just goes on and on--.