Something amazing happened in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 30, 2006. The mayor of that city, Rocky Anderson, delivered a speech that was a scathing indictment of Bush and the Bush administration. It is sizzling. You have to handle with forceps. And I really want you to click through and read it all but I'll give you a small sample here:
We are here today to insist that those who were elected to be our leaders must tell us the truth.
We are here today to insist that our news media live up to its sacred responsibility to ascertain and report the truth - rather than acting like nothing more than a bulletin board for the lies and propaganda of a manipulative, dishonest federal government.
We have been getting just about everything but the truth on matters of life and death . . . on matters upon which our nation's reputation hinges . . . on matters that directly relate to our nation's fundamental values . . . and on matters relating to the survival of our planet.
In the process, our nation has engaged in an unnecessary war, based upon false justifications. More than a hundred thousand people have been killed - and many more have been seriously maimed, brain damaged, or rendered mentally ill.
Our nation's reputation throughout much of the world has been destroyed. We have many more enemies bent on our destruction than before our invasion of Iraq.
And the hatred toward us has grown to the point that it will take many years, perhaps generations, to overcome the loathing created by our invasion and occupation of a Muslim country.
What incredible ineptitude and callousness for our President to talk about a Crusade while lying to us to make a case for the invasion and occupation of a Muslim country!
Our children and later generations will pay the price of the lies, the violence, the cruelty, the incompetence, and the inhumanity of the Bush administration and the lackey Congress that has so cowardly abrogated its responsibility and authority under our checks-and-balances system of government.
We are here to say, "We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. No more inhumanity."
Let's raise our voices, and demand, "Give us the truth! Give us the truth! Give us the truth!"
Mayor Anderson then goes on to spell out the lies we have been fed one by one and to conclude of President Bush that "he betrayed each of us, he betrayed our country, and he betrayed the cause of world peace. "
All I can say is, thank you Rocky Anderson. May your tribe increase. But watch your back, please, and do stay out of small planes.
UPDATE: If you want to say thank you to Rocky Anderson you can do so right here.
Thank you for sharing this. I am grateful for the opportunity to sign. Marilyn
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