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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (5946)	1/30/2003 9:22:35 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

You are right! Violence is not a solution. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi warned us that violence would never resolve our problems. But the problem with George Bush, Jr. is that he is a bully. In some states, like Washington State, it is illegal to bully others. Yet, Bush has bullied the Congress and the American press into doing whatever he wants. Why does Bush rely on violent wars to justify actions? It is his only solution. He doesn't know how to do anything else. Otherwise, he would have tried to find a peaceful solution between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Instead, Bush walked away from the difficult task. People only have to look at Bush's actions when he was Governor of Texas to understand that violence is his only possible solution to conflict. Texas has sent more people to death row than any other state. In one of the books that I read, W called the addition of extra beds to the Texas state prison system as "love beds." No one is precisely sure why he wants to drive the United States into war with Iraq b4 he pushes the US into another war in another country. While George W. Bush is president there will always be war for the United States because the road to a new war is the only way that George W. Bush can govern. Recently, the German public compared Bush to Hitler. Hitler was never satisfied. Hitler was compelled to attack other countries, and there were times when the German people applauded Hitler's actions; or that was the impression I got from watching old Hitler German war footage. Bush actions and the response of the American public to Bush's push for never-ending war and conflict remind me of Hitler, JMOP I've included an an excerpt from an interview by Bill Moyer with Doris Lessing. Doris Lessing has experienced numerous wars and political viewpoints from several perspectives. >>>>>>>>>>>>> Doris Lessing: A Bill Moyers Interview pbs.org MOYERS: You said this is a frightening time … We're weeks or maybe days away from a decision about the President to attack Iraq. What makes it so frightening as you-- as you sense it? DORIS LESSING: Well, The-- mental set of the world is-- affected by Westerns. It's the scenario that good sheriff riding into the town and he takes out the baddies in town and returns to its former good state and the sheriff rides away into the sunset. Well, this is how people think, I think. Politicians and-- war leaders. Bush is going to ride into Iraq with guns blazing. And then everything will be cleared up and then he will ride out again. But it's not going to be like that. The casualness of it is what is so terrifying. You see, we've been watching this build up in Europe, and it's absolutely obvious this man wants war. The president wants war. For whatever reason, and he's going to get it. BILL MOYERS: With Tony Blair's help. DORIS LESSING: Well, you know I don't approve of Blair. Blair is a little man in a little country. It's the same thing as Bush wanting war, and going to war. BILL MOYERS: We keep having wars despite the fact that great novelists tell us the truth about wars. DORIS LESSING: Well, we don't have much effect, do we? Do you know when I first recognized that horrible truth, I was standing in Southern Rhodesia, I was very young… And-- watching the night's bag of prisoners, the Africans who were being caught out without passes. Hand cuffed, walking down the street. With the-- jailers, white, in front and back. And I looked at that and I thought-- Right, well, this is described in Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and all the others. So what have they achieved is what I thought. Didn't stop me writing novels though. I-- I think we might have-- a limited effect on a small number of people. I hope a good one. BILL MOYERS: But you keep writing. DORIS LESSING: Yes I do. I have to. pbs.org