Vietnam--Death of one-tenth of one per cent of world's population

Vietnam was a genocidal war crime from start to finish. The 3 million SouthEast Asians killed in that illegal U.S. invasion, occupation and war constituted nearly one-tenth of one percent of the world's population at the time. The U.S.--which has been involved in numerous illegal wars since Vietnam--is now involved in another illegal invasion, occupation and war in Iraq. Don't even bother to ask if we will ever learn. We won't. We are a capitalist, imperialist, expansionist nation hell-bent of global domination and the imposition of our ways, values, and the christian religion on the rest of the world. We are making more enemies everyday, both at home and abroad.

In the 1970's and 1980's Amerians loved to say that people around the world knew it was the U.S. government, not the U.S. people, that was the enemy of peace and justice around the world and at home. That is no longer true and the recognition is growing daily around the world. This is the hope presented by the Bush re-election--that the people of the world increasingly realize that the U.S. people are not capable of and are not interested in a U.S. government which is good for the rest of the world. The hope presented by Bush's re-election is that the people of the world will become increasingly clear that they must challenge and defeat the U.S. government (and the people who elect it every four years) in international forums, in the market place of ideas, and in every other forum of international debate and consensus.

Most people have to pay at whore. But John Kerry didn't even have pay because the Democrats and so-called "progressives" gave it--their vote and therefore their consent-- away for free. All the Democrats and "progressives" asked John Kerry to do was to beat George Bush. No contorted sex acts or anything. Kerry was essentially told by Democrats and so-called progressives, "Go whereever you have to go ideologically and do whatever you have to do politically. Equivocate on abortion, support the war in Iraq, do what ever you have to. Just beat George Bush". But Kerry and the Democratic Party couldn't even do that.

John Kerry didn't beat George Bush. Despite moving as far right as he could and becoming in the end a pro-war, ruling class, conservative Democrat, John Kerry lost. You, my fellow so-called "progressive" Americans, sold out. You--Noam Chomsky, Howard Dean, Spokane Progressives Yahoo Group, the Nation magazine, all of you--led first time voters and young voters to John Kerry and the ideologically and intellectually bankrupt Democratic Party. Several candidates out there, Ralph Nader and David Cobb among them, could have and in fact did eloquently addressed every issue that you claim out of one side of your mouth to believe in. But you, yes you, silenced them and their supporters.

Not to worry, right? Your house is warm, your bed is made, there is food in the frig, and two cats in the yard. Yes, you sold out and the rest of the world knows it.