If and when our Muslim friends are successful in getting a nuclear bomb off
in a major US city it will all take care of it's self.

Automatic WWIII

--
Bill Kiene


"riverman" wrote in message
...

Votes are coming in, and it looks at last count like the best Kerry can
hope for is to tie, where it goes to the (Republican-controlled) House.

Living outside the US, I can feel the air getting sucked out from the
collective gasp of other nations. This week has been dominated on TV by
talk shows and editorials from other countries showing overwhelming
support for Kerry, or at least for a change away from Bush. I think its
also indicative that all the major urban centers in the US have voted to
change Presidents, and that of all the places who actually FELT the impact
of 9/11....New York City, voted ovwhelmingly for Kerry. The rest of the
country is running from paranoia. A woman was quoted on CNN yesterday as
saying 'nothing else matters. I'm voting for my personal safety". Yeah,
right. I'd like to smack her upside the head (which would be more than a
little microcosmic).

So we can look forward to 4 more years of Bush. But worse years than
before. He now feels like he has a *mandate*, a vote of approval to
continue his policies. If we thought he was stubborn and out-of-touch
before, we ain't seen nothing yet. We can expect the national debt,
already beyond imaginable, to skyrocket immediately: the Repubs have
already exceeded the debt ceiling through 'creative bookkeeping', but put
off officially having it raised beyond $7.384 trillion until after the
election. The first quarter of next year is already predicted to break the
previous record, set in the first quarter of this year.

We can look forward to 4 more years of war, of international alienation
(coupled with a "we don't care, we don't have to" attitude from the US), 4
more years of forests and wilderness lands being sold off for industry
profit, 4 more years of belligerant government for big business, 4 more
years of undoing environmental policies, 4 more years of increased impacts
on global warming, 4 more years of dirty politics like what Tom Delay did
in Texas, and almost certainly there will be more 'bedroom scandals' like
Enron and Halliburton.

We've given the henhouse keys to the foxes. It was handed to them by the
countryfolk of the heartland, people who believe the hyperbole and spin,
who actually felt that their lives were in personal danger, and who have
no idea the harm they have just done to our country.

God help us all.

--riverman