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Dear Mr President,

Although I am not an American citizen - a simple fact of genetics and geography for which I apologize, as I know this makes me something of a “non-person” in your eyes - I would ask you to read and reply to this letter.

Please, if only momentarily, try to respond as you should in your self-proclaimed role as “Leader of the Free World.”

You see, being British, I consider myself fortunate enough to have been born a citizen of the “Free World” and, as such, although we have never met or debated any major issues of the day, you apparently feel you represent me.  Along with several hundred million other people in the “democratic” Free World who did not have an opportunity to vote for you.

I know it is a bit presumptuous, but on their behalf, I am writing to you as part of your greater constituency to clarify a few things regarding your past, present and future stance on three specific issues that either impact our lives directly, or could do.

Iran

Contrary to your own mangled vocalisms, the President of Iran’s name is “Ahmadinejad” and not “Arming-a-Jihad” as you seem to think.  Unlike you, Sir, he has never invaded another country and is self-professedly anti-war.  His stance has been declared to the world numerous times, yet is consistently disputed by the paranoid western media as they are guided by your mendacious Administration. 

Records confirm that he spends less than one percent of the equivalent US military budget on his country’s legitimate defense requirements.  Mr President, I know you struggle with math, but this means he spends about one dollar of his peoples’ money for every one hundred US tax dollars you do. 

More specifically, he has insisted his country is only pursuing nuclear technology to meet future energy requirements rather than to develop nuclear weapons, unlike the US. 

You already have nuclear weapons.  Lots of them.  So many that you occasionally lose some in transit over your own country and barely notice. 

President Ahmadinejad has never misplaced a single one.  Maybe because he has none.

Because of these simple facts, some of us in the Free World don’t really see him as a threat.

Apparently, your own advisors know that Iran is not attempting to develop nuclear weapons: your “intelligence” agencies have verified this in the latest National Intelligence Estimate, despite some pressure from your rather aptly named Vice President to change their findings, and your own ongoing assertions to the contrary. 

Please explain to us, your disenfranchised constituents in the Free World, why you perceive Iran as such a grave and immediate threat despite all the evidence to the contrary. 

Or perhaps acknowledge that, as your previous Chairman of the Federal Reserve did regarding the illegal Iraq invasion, any war with Iran will be largely about oil.

I know such a confession would be difficult enough for you to make to the public, given your family’s vested interests, but many people believe things are rather more complicated than the established media will ever divulge.
 
Could there also be a spiritual rationale prompting your aggressive stance?  Namely, your religion?

Christianity

I am happy that you have found God.  I have looked everywhere, but, sadly, never even glimpsed him.  Along with Santa Claus, the Boogeyman and the Anti-Christ. 

I am not being facetious.

Many of us, your secular constituents outside of the USA - people you purport to represent as Leader of the Free World, yet rarely address and never consult - find the whole concept of a mythical, omnificent being, totally unsupportable. We believe that God did not create Man, but that Man invented God. 

Hence, we are worried that our unelected “leader” has some very flawed thinking regarding an ideology that, at heart, has admirable aims, but is easily manipulated by the unscrupulous and powerful to indoctrinate the feeble-minded.

For instance:

Is it true that you believe the planet and all the creatures on it were created some four or five thousand years ago by a supreme being, and that the Bible is the literal word of God?  If so, one could suggest you are no more advanced in your attitude than a fundamentalist Imam in the Middle East who relies on fourteen hundred year old scriptures to inform his thinking.

It is difficult for many of us in the Free World to understand how you could hold such beliefs as President of the most technologically advanced nation in the world, especially given all the evidence to the contrary.  It could be that we have been wrongly informed.

I hope so.  Perhaps you could also clarify the following:

Do you believe that the end of the world is soon to be upon us?  And that, at such time, the righteous (ie you and other professedly Christian people, especially rich American ones) will ascend to heaven while the rest of us are doomed to burn for an eternity in hell?

If so, can I very politely suggest that many of us would view your position as Commander-in-Chief of the world’s only nuclear superpower - with enough weapons at your disposal to bring about Armageddon a hundred times over - as rather less than comforting?

Your religious beliefs are particularly pertinent with regard to US Middle East policy, as you may have gathered at Annapolis recently.  Like most of the people in the Free World you may not fully grasp the real source of conflict in that troubled part of the world: the simple concept that the Palestinians have legitimate territorial claims over lands they inhabited for much of the last two millennia - homeland that was commandeered by western imperial powers in the aftermath of WWII to create the State of Israel, along with more Palestinian land illegally confiscated during the Zionist expansion during the 1967 war.

Of course, as President of the United States, you may not feel you need to understand the Arab/Muslim point of view, especially as you apparently believe the Palestinians only get what they deserve: many of them voted to support Hamas, democratically electing a bunch of terrorists, after all. Your view on their armed struggle and the complexities of the Middle East situation were summed up with your incisive comment to Mr Blair when you explained that the Palestinian militants just need “to stop doing this shit and it’s over.” 

Can I ask if your unconditional, blinkered support for nuclear armed Israel stems from your religious beliefs? 

Do you share the Christian extremists’ view that the existence of the Jewish state in the Holy Land remains a prerequisite for the “imminent return” of Jesus Christ? 

Please confirm, Mr President that, as a sophisticated statesman, you could not be party to such a bigoted fundamentalist illusion.
 
These are important questions that are never addressed to you by the western media. Yet many of the people in the Free World are worried that, if you really believe these things, you may represent a greater threat to the future of mankind than any suicidal Islamo-fascist-fundamentalist-terrorist strapping himself to a single nuclear device.

In fact, I would respectfully suggest they might even consider you as more of a clear and present danger than President Ahmadinejad, and conclude you are supportive of another god in addition to the Christian one you profess.  No Sir, I am not talking about your unholy worship of Mammon.  I am referring to your infatuation with Mars.

War

It could be that I am wrong, but I believe you are on record as telling your “would-be” biographer (Bush family friend Mickey Herskowitz) well before your elevation to your current position, that it was important for you to establish yourself as a “war President,” and that you had already determined Iraq would be your first target. 

This incredible ambition would be appreciated by us, your international constituents, considerably more if you would present yourself on the front line.  Although we understand that you would be a distinctive and valuable target for all concerned, surely it is not beyond even your limited wit to don an appropriate disguise.  Some face paint and a helmet would do.

Maybe a few moments on the front line in Iraq might disabuse you of your facile views and seemingly sociopathic willingness to use armed “intervention.”   I know your own military history is rather lackluster as you managed to avoid ever getting in harm’s way during the Vietnam War.  It is a shame, as, if you had done so, then you might have a very different view of armed conflict. 

Try as you might, you cannot make up for your own psychological deficits by sending hundreds of thousands of your nation’s poor to fight for you in wars you barely comprehend.

Please stop trying.  Please, Mr President, bring them home now.

Based on recent polls, I think I speak for the majority of Americans on this last point as well as most of the rest of the Free World.  But are you listening?

Thank you for your kind attention and I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Will Patching
Free World Citizen

The definition of vice:
moral weakness, a specific form of evil doing; ”vice offends the moral standards of the community”
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=vice

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