Bush dishonours the dead of 9-11

SINCE September 11, many Americans have asked “why do they hate us?” They need look no further than their democratically-elected leader George W Bush and his friends in the military.

While the rest of the world is meeting to save the planet and billions of starving citizens, Bush is meeting friends on his Texan ranch to discuss a war with Iraq that no other country needs or supports.

Pontification from a country whose political contribution includes ineffective sanctions, and more than $3 billion a year in military and economic aid to Israel, is a little hard to swallow especially in the Middle East. Moralising from a country which airs the freak-show that is The Jerry Springer Show and allows 37-year-old Utah resident, Tom Green, marry and conceive a child with his 13-year-old step-daughter seems hypocritical at best.

President Bush and his boys with toys in the US Army will inevitably hijack the September 11th anniversary for their own violent means a cynical exercise to whip up patriotic fervour and justify their obscene military budgets by spilling more Arab blood. It is an insult, not a tribute, to those who died so tragically last year.

Seamus Lynch,

1 Seaview Park,

Portrane,

County Dublin.