U.S. Elections III

Why am I so bothered about the US Elections?

After all, it's not as if I live there, and have any say over who gets elected. I can see why many Americans are getting annoyed at us Europeans complaining and trying to tell them what to do (the Guardian's campaign was massively misjudged - a rare cock-up from a decent paper unfortunately). It's almost as if we don't trust the Americans to decide for themselves.

The problem is, it's not that we don't trust the American people. It's that we don't trust the current administration. We believe they will try and cheat and worm their way back in using whatever methods, fair or foul, to achieve this. The only way to prevent this is to ensure that the Republicans get a complete leathering in the polls.

This isn't going to happen though. So I have resorted to the last refuge of the heathen - I have started to pray. I have reconciled myself to the fact there must be a Supreme Being in Heaven (if only so Rumsfeld can FINALLY get what he deserves when he dies), and am regularly offering up pleas for him to strike down the Republican party. But this probably won't happen. Because as we are often told, God is all-forgiving.

But why am I so bothered?

Partly, it is because I am UTTERLY convinced that if George Bush remains in power for four more years, there WILL be a nuclear attack either on, or by America. Intimations have already been made that the American Department for Defence (the irony!) wants to attack Iran. And they have nuclear capability. As the Americans would say, go figure.

Then there's the fact that the current crusade has made many "less-well-informed" people around the Globe convinced that Islam is synonymous with terrorism. Consequently, now it is appearing that Bush is on a quest to wipe the Islamic faith from the surface of the Earth, (rather like the Imperial British Missionaries in the 19th Century), he is getting far less opposition than he should do, because he has consistently linked terrorism with Islam.

But finally, there's my hope for this country. If Bush goes, we have every hope to believe that a certain person in this country will be brought to account for his errors...