To George W. Bush
President of the United States
Dear Mr. President,
During your passionate and
truly great speech before Congress, you told us of the need to protect America
against terrorism. True. You also eloquently told us of the greatness and the
courage exhibited by many Americans during the crisis faced on September 11. As
a former elected official who has heard thousands of speeches, I must say that
yours was perhaps one of the best speeches I have heard in my lifetime.
But, Mr. President, Sir, you
also told Congress and the American people something quite inaccurate.
I quote:
"Americans are asking
"Why do they hate us?"
"They hate what they see
right here in this chamber: a democratically elected government. Their leaders
are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our
freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each
other."
With all do respect to you,
Mr. President, that statement is completely false. The media has said
repeatedly and incorrectly that this was an attack against freedom, and
unfortunately you simply repeated that absurd idea in your speech.
The obvious truth is that
those who attacked us couldn't care less about the kind of government we have.
They did not attack us because they hate our democracy or our freedoms. They
certainly did not attack Switzerland or Sweden or any other democracies in the
world.
I pray that you will agree
with me that the American people deserve the utmost honesty before we take the
most serious and dangerous step that a nation can ever make: go to war.
The attack on September 11 was
certainly not about people hating our freedoms. It was purely in response to
America's foreign policy; and it was primarily about our monetary and military
support of Israel.
As strange as it may sound to
Americans, those who attack us do so because they view our nation's leaders in
exactly the same way as we view them. They believe that you and all of
America's recent leaders are the real terrorists.
If you want to know the true
reasons why they attack America, you can easily read what they write about
America. There are even many interviews with Bin Laden that make clear his
motivations.
He and many others say that
they must fight America for its support of 50 years of Israel's terrorism
against the Palestinian and other Mideastern people. He says this in precisely
the same way that some say we must bomb Afghanistan into further oblivion for
supporting the terrorism of Bin Laden.
America is seen as a terrorist
nation for having supported the Israeli ethnic cleansing of 700,000
Palestinians from their land and homes and the stripping them of their most
basic human rights, even depriving them of the right to live where they were
born!
America is accused of
supporting terrorism for backing Israel, even America is aware that Israel
tortures 500 to 600 Palestinians in its jails each month.
America is called terrorist
for supporting Israel even as it killed 40,000 Lebanese in its invasion of that
country. They ask the world how America could support Israel even as it bombed
civilian Red Cross shelters and killed women and children by the score.
Millions of people ask how the
President of the United States could dine in the White House with Israel
Sharon, a man with a proven history of massacring civilians, and who even
Israel held responsible for the cold-blooded murder of 2000 people at the Sabra
and Shatila camps in Lebanon.
America is also called a
terrorist state for causing the death of more than 500,000 Iraqi children.
It is difficult for us to act
morally superior to our enemies when our own U.S. Secretary of State, Madeline
Albright, told Leslie Stahl of CBS that America's causing the death of 500,000
Iraqi children was "worth it." What would you say, Mr. President, of
someone who thinks it is worth killing 500,000 children in order to punish one
man?
Of course, whatever the
reasons for the attack on September 11, Americans must defend ourselves by
whatever means necessary. No American should ever face such horrible terror as
on that fateful black Tuesday. And, I salute your determination to defend us.
But, before we respond in an
indiscriminate way and breed even more hatred against us, we must be honest
about why we are hated and why we are being attacked.
Telling us that we were
attacked simply because they hate our freedom -- keeps America from examining
the real reasons why we are hated. It must be acknowledged that we cannot end
the terrorism against us unless we first heal the hatred that spawns it.
Of course, the Israel Firsters
who control America's media don't want us to discuss the dire consequences of
our monetary and military actions for Israel. They don't want us to even
discuss the relationship between Israel and the events of September 11. Some
are even telling the big lie that the attacks had nothing to do with our
support of Israel. It is strange that Europe and the whole world recognize this
obvious fact, but the American people do not.
We must access the
anti-American consequences of our Mideast Policy. It is vital to our own
national security.
As President, you must
carefully reconsider our foreign involvement and policies over the last 50
years. You must determine if it is truly in the best interest of the American
people to be involved in all these foreign wars and conflicts.
As President you were sworn to
defend the United States, not Israel or any other foreign nation. I beseech you
to exclusively put first the interests of the American people. We cannot afford
to be manipulated by powerful lobbies who owe their allegiance to Israel over
that of America.
You must also certainly
recognize that the agenda of the Jewish-dominated news media can seriously
conflict with the interests of the American people. I pray that you as our
President will single-mindedly put the interests of the American people first,
last and always.
The tragic events of September
11 did not happen because people hate America's freedom. Unless we examine the
root causes of the growing hatred against our country, we shall be doomed to
suffer more terrible days like September 11. Let us not be drawn into the
hatreds and blood feuds of foreign nations.
May God keep and protect you
Mr. President. And may he also give America and all the American people his
shining protection.
You have in your hands the
most powerful sword on earth. At this critical moment in American history may
God grant you the wisdom to use its power to heal rather than to inflame an
even greater cycle of hate and violence against the American people.
In whatever course of action
you take, I urge you to defy the power of the Zionist lobby which serves the
interests of a foreign nation, and put first the safety and interests of the
American people.
In Your Service, and for
America!
David Duke
Sep 20, 2001