Dear Mr. President...


by Dennis Diehl - Date: 2007-01-28 - Word Count: 1177 Share This!

Dear Mr. President,

I am nobody and yet I am everybody. You have no reason to pay attention to me. You have every reason to listen to what I say. I am only one lone American. I am every American that asks themselves, "there must be something I can do." I am only one voice. I am all the voices of those you don't listen to. I am only one observer. I am everyone who can observe. You are us. You are nothing like us.

Do not attack Iran. Read my lips. Do not attack Iran. What word do you and your advisors not understand? Can I pretend to know everything about what's really going on behind the scenes on this planet and in the delusional world of politics and self interest? No, I can't. I'm just the guy in the first paragraph. But if you expand this deceptive and ill advised war, you will go down in American history as the worst President in the history of our country, or at least what's left of it. Frankly, it may be too late already to avoid that distinction. The Bush family name is already associated in the minds of most people as being synonymous with self serving special interests, warmongering, conspiracy and perspectives that, to date, have cost hundreds of thousands of human beings, who had every bit the same right to be here on this planet as you and yours do, their lives. While this might only be a mere inconvenience and sanitation problem to you and those who think as you do, it changes the course of individual histories in ways that change the course of our collective history.

When we cause others to feel such loses in ways that one has never experienced those loses themselves, I suppose we won't understand the unending chaos, pain and retribution that follows. We lead by reaction and not pro-action. The only reason they come over here, I think, is because one has pissed them off over there. I can tell you, it won't go away, it won't stop and all you get to understand is that you caused it and it has nothing to do with what you think you are fixing. Causing more problems than one solves is not the idea of successful leadership in any group or corporation I can think of...much less Government. I think we now the answer to the question..Are we better off today than..."

I hear you are a religious man, a Christian. Wow..maybe those who profess such things should stay out of government so they don't find themselves having to ask, "just who would Jesus kill?" I think I understand what Jesus was getting at in the New Testament. I used to be one of those fundamentalist Preacher types that get your ear, I think, way too much. I think you are being told wrongly by your Evangelical friends, who find more in common with the Old Testament than the New. I just have to tell you that what you are being told Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Matthew, Luke and Revelation say, is pretty much irrelevant to our day and time, no matter what you are being told. Those who advice you on such things are excellent Bible readers. Scholars and historians, not so much. I suggest you widen your circle of theological perspectives before they ruin our economy, turn us all into raging skeptics or get us all killed.

Bible prophecy often isn't that at all. Much of it is history past made to appear as history prophecied. The Books of Daniel and Matthew are a lot like that. Did you know that some factions inserted false prophecies into the predictions of other factions to make them look like false prophets? Tis true. Sounds like a trick one would play on some politician. Once you were a false prophet, anything you said after that could be dismissed. The Bible is like that in it's politics. It's a lot like government actually. My point is, and I suppose this is the bottom line, when humans try to provoke the conditions they think it will take to bring about a certain result, in this case perhaps the Second Coming for your friends, they 100% of the time to date, end up with only chaos, destruction, financial ruin and a big big sanitation problem. Only trouble and no Jesus. Oh, and YOUR family name takes a pounding for allowing it and for the rest of recorded history. You know where people forever more say things like, "please don't mention that name again." On top of that, the Jesus your friends want to return is the Jesus who brings his Rod of Iron to kick even more butt with. Frankly Mr. President, don't you think we have had enough of that? Maybe we could opt for the Sermon on the Mount Jesus this time around in our dealings and not so much the Cosmic Christ of Revelation. Like it or not, they aren't the same dude.

Oh, and it's ok to say I was wrong or I made a mistake Mr. President. If you have to, you can say "we were wrong," or "we made a mistake," if it helps. I know it's painful. But the point is stop making mistakes like this and take, not the same course, but a new, more productive one. I always learned that a pat on the back was just 18 inches from a kick in the butt. You know, stuff like that. It's deciding, and I know you are the one who decides, to drop the Rod of Iron thing and opt for something more real and compassionate. I know...I am naive. But still I have noticed that over the past six years, neither you nor your administration is prone to talk things over with anyone with whom you seem to have a problem. No peace conferences, no Summits, no "come let us reason togethers" after 911...nothing. That kick you in the butt thing seems to rule the day. Personally I have always found that the, in your face, confrontational approach was less pleasing and generally lead to asking that darn question over and over about "are you better off now than you were.." well you know.

Well, I suppose there is much to say but this should be enough for now. Frankly, writing you makes me not a little nervous. I saw a cartoon once where someone came to the King in the Wizard of Id with a great idea about how to better run the kingdom. The King listened and then said, "well Eddie, with ideas like that, you will really go up in this kingdom." The next thing you see is Eddie at the foot of the gallows and the King saying, "up you go Eddie." Funny huh...? I said, Funny..huh? Nevermind.

Well, the guy in the first paragraph wishes you a better day than they are having any number of places on the planet at the moment. You have the power to make it better. History is waiting.

Warm regards "Eddie"


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