Dear Mr. President,
I just wanted to thank you for your relentless efforts at the rudder of probably the greatest nation on earth. I think you should know that I follow your decisions very closely, even if I live way over here at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic Ocean, by the way, is that great blue mass of water just to the right of the United States, if you happen to stand in front of a world map in the Oval Office.
Not that it should bother you, anyway, because on my side of this ocean there is Europe among some other continents, and as we both know the transatlantic relations have taken their share of bruises lately. Which leads us to the most important thing people will remember about you: the Iraq war.
When you, Donald, Dick, Paul, Condi and Colin decided to have a word or two with that Saddam-fellow, we all felt there must be plenty of reasons. Around the globe, people were a bit disappointed when they found out it was entirely about Halliburton, oil and defense funding. Because in the beginning Donald said that you wanted to protect us from terrorism and nuclear attacks. So we were kind of shocked when Donald announced that after closely examining the issue there was only one conclusion - that Saddam had no biological, chemical or nuclear weapons whatsoever and that he and Osama Bin Laden being buddies was just pre-war trash talk for the liberal media.
And to reach this groundbreaking conclusion more than thousand american mothers have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom that they will never be able to live a normal life, and more than ten thousand mothers in Iraq did the same if they would ever happen to know what Abe Lincoln once wrote. But since they don´t, they will only be left with the cherished memory of their loved and lost.
But after all, by wasting our ammo, burning the fuel for our military vehicles, wrecking our helicopters, we did create jobs back in America. Someone beside the shareholders must earn all that money of your taxpayers that you spend like crazy for defense funding of the Iraq war. Money, that could have been spent for the environment, for research and education, for health and even for projects in the third world.
Never mind. These things happen. We should not forget you set out to reach a worthy goal: for once and all fight the terrorism. And its a pity that it turned so foul. That no one knows where Saddams nuclear equipment went is no problem in itself. Coupled with the fact that someone also stole enough explosives to trigger dozens of nuclear warheads, is another matter. And so it looks like what you set out to avoid is becoming more and more a reality - nuclear capability in the hands of crazy fundamentalists.
So I think its safely to say that almost everything you did went wrong. I don´t know if the worlds becoming a better place with John Kerry at the helm. But I say, lets try it. Kerry might get lucky. Everything is better than the perennial deadlock that your legislature brought to this world - a government that twentyfour hours a day and seven days a week had nothing better to do than watch out for a chance to make war on somebody.
A german dove