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03-10-2003, 08:23 PM
<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'><span style='color:330099' >An Open Letter to President Bush
By Vladimir Bukovsky and Elena Bonner
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 10, 2003
Dear Mr. President,
Before the bombs begin to fall, leaving us no time for calm reflections, it seems only natural to step back and try to assess the overall picture as it develops. No, we are not joining those who seek to dissuade you from taking a military action in Iraq. On the contrary, we think that this action is long overdue, and that Iraqi people were left to suffer from the evil regime of Saddam Hussein for too long. Neither can we share the pacifist sentiments expressed recently by many millions of marchers. Our own experience under no less evil regime of the Soviet Union has taught us that freedom is one of a few things in this world worthy of fighting and dying for. And the sooner we do it the better because such regimes, as history proved time and again, leave us no option but to confront them and to destroy them for they, by their very nature, are both oppressive internally and aggressive externally.
Equally, we fail to grasp why is it suddenly so important to obtain yet another Security Council Resolution, if it was not deemed to be important in a far more questionable case of NATO campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. Surely, Milocevic's regime pales by comparison with that of Saddam.
Corruption today in Russia is something out of the other world. It is not a corruption anymore, it is a system where the KGB (now called FSB) is running most of the organised crime, protection racket, drug trafficking, arms sales and contract killings (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 553)
Does this letter explain why Russia is not with us in this war?</span></span> http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
By Vladimir Bukovsky and Elena Bonner
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 10, 2003
Dear Mr. President,
Before the bombs begin to fall, leaving us no time for calm reflections, it seems only natural to step back and try to assess the overall picture as it develops. No, we are not joining those who seek to dissuade you from taking a military action in Iraq. On the contrary, we think that this action is long overdue, and that Iraqi people were left to suffer from the evil regime of Saddam Hussein for too long. Neither can we share the pacifist sentiments expressed recently by many millions of marchers. Our own experience under no less evil regime of the Soviet Union has taught us that freedom is one of a few things in this world worthy of fighting and dying for. And the sooner we do it the better because such regimes, as history proved time and again, leave us no option but to confront them and to destroy them for they, by their very nature, are both oppressive internally and aggressive externally.
Equally, we fail to grasp why is it suddenly so important to obtain yet another Security Council Resolution, if it was not deemed to be important in a far more questionable case of NATO campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999. Surely, Milocevic's regime pales by comparison with that of Saddam.
Corruption today in Russia is something out of the other world. It is not a corruption anymore, it is a system where the KGB (now called FSB) is running most of the organised crime, protection racket, drug trafficking, arms sales and contract killings (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 553)
Does this letter explain why Russia is not with us in this war?</span></span> http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif