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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Reason demands and
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
/><st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place>s successors should know there are
hierarchies of principle. No law between countries and men can outrank the law
(the US-ratified UN charter) against launching aggressive wars against other
countries. Without such laws there can be no international laws at all. No
promise between Americans (or indeed between the citizens of any democracy) can
be more solemn than the Presidential Oath to those citizens to uphold the
Constitution and the law to those citizens. Allow that promise to be broken or
uttered parrot fashion by an imbecile and all promises are void. </P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">As a non-American, as a former
pro-American, I must tell you that the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> law includes the treaties that you
have made in order to receive from the rest of us that are not a part of your
300 millions a quid for your pro.</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">If you, the current generation of
voting American can't get that, if you can't see that you have a duty not just
to yourselves but to the rest of us in a would-be civilized world to remove the
blight on your country and the blight on your honor then one wonders if you will
ever have the wit and perception to see that behind the brown avenging eyes
fixed upon you lies a resolve that could have been planted by the ghost of
Patrick Henry. </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">You must impeach George W Bush,
you must be as good as your promises when the promises are so serious, because
without the rule of law, logically there can only be war. If you don't then in
2007 it will be lazy, complacent, compromising, selfish and parochial Americans
that are the real enemies of the rest of humanity and ultimately of themselves.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">On September 11, 2001 a Frenchman
said "we are all Americans now". And we other non-Americans knew what he meant.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">But so far has George W Bush
reduced <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>, so far have
you the citizens and the Congresses of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region> let your honor be reduced and your promises
broken, that inside and outside <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>, we are all terrorists
now.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett
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