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Nov 06 2008

A Letter to President Obama

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A Letter to President Obama

Last month you said that if elected President you would ``change the world.`` Sorry to disillusion you but the rest of us in the world outside of the USA don`t want the world being changed, we want America to change.

In fact I can safely say that we've had enough of America's changes to the world, the illegal invasions undertook for solely economic motives, the death and destruction the USA has brought to millions of innocent civilians in your quest for world hegemony.

We've had enough of your concentration camps dotted throughout the world from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib where America suffered their greatest humiliation since 1776.

We've had enough of your blind support for the Apartheid regime in Israel with their policies of ethnic cleansing and in turning Gaza into the world's largest prison camp, slowly starving the occupants into submission or flight.

We've had enough of America disregarding International Laws when it suits you and then falling back on them when it's to your advantage.

We've had enough of your threats against Iran on the basis of their non-existant nuclear weapons program or your violations of sovereignty in places such as Pakistan and Syria.

We've had enough of the USA being the sole opposition to United Nations resolutions intended to improve human rights.

In short Mr Obama get the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan and get used to the idea of buying your oil and gas on the open market instead occupying and threatening oil producers.

It's not as though you don't have enough problems at home, the Bush administration has been busy printing new money to pay your way in the world, your Treasury deficit is exceeding half a trillion dollars a year, your trade deficit is around $60 billion a month and that is partially because "made in the USA" is not a favourable trade mark to billions of people around the world.

We need action not words and change is certainly necessary, if you can change the USA you will truly change the world.

- Michael Lee, England

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1. 14-11-2008 09:10

Mr. Lee,

I read your letter with enthusiam since with this election we have turned a corner.

It is always helpful to have constructive criticism from our good friends across the Atlantic. We need in be increasingly open to your words.

I am weary. Weary of a failed presidency that did not represent me nor most of my countryment. The past eight years have been field with contempt and ridicule for the US.

Needless to say, your arguments ring true. As a fervent environmentalist from the great state of California, I realize how much work we have ahead.

Yes, America must change. She must rejoin the world and provide leadership and stability.

Keep your remarks coming. We need them and there is no major international challenge we can undertake without your support.

Thank you.

Todd Armstrong
San Carlos, CA

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2. 15-11-2008 03:50

Step back.

What affront, to decide the US will change the word, the old 'The US way or the wrong way, attitude.
You see Todd your heart may be in the right place, but you have fallen into the very pitfall that has been dogging the US world relations, when you wrote,
'Yes, America must change. She must rejoin the world and provide leadership and stability'.Whats with this leadership attitude, why can't the US just be part of the 'Brotherhood of Humanity' working as part of the whole, a part of the homogeneous mix of people of good will.
US world leadership has caused misery throughout the world for many decades.
So for every bodies sake including the sake of the USA, maybe it is about time for the US to step back for a while.

Mike. (In OZ.)

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