Hi Bart:
I have been a regular reader of your site,
and I want you to know it gives
me hope that not all of our neighbours
to the south have turned completely
into insane warmongering bible thumping
election-stealing loonies.
It is a pleasure to read such a wonderfully
irreverent site, especially given
the fear that seems to permeate the mainstream
media in your country.
Up here, where Bush is apparently unaware
we are separate country from
you folks, he has unleashed his ambassador,
Paul Cellucci, to tell us how
"disappointed and upset" Americans are that Canada
has not joined them in
the war against Iraq. Celucci indicated
that we would be punished for this,
no doubt through further trade penalties.
"Security trumps trade," is how
he put it.
Bart, I'm scared. I lived through Reagan's
surreal presidency (when we had
a lickspittle Prime Minister named Brian
Mulroney who was Blair to Reagan's
Bush), and I watched with fascination the
short train wreck that was Bush 41,
but I can't see how you guys are going
to recover from Bush 43. He really has
altered your country in so many fundamental
and frightening ways.
He has cowed the mainstream media completely.
Anyone who criticizes his
administration gets frozen out, so no one
dares cross him. Your cable news
stations are battling to see who can be
the most right wing and the most mindlessly
pro-Bush. Your government has changed so
that much more power is now
concentrated in the executive, and you
have set up the framework for a very
effective police state with The Patriot
Act. He has destroyed your public finances,
yet all I hear from pundits is the horrible
damage the Clinton years did to America.
Are you guys living in Bizarro world, or
what?
Bush has also opened up your government
to group of religious fanatics.
I have nothing against religious people
in general, but we are talking about
the uniquely crazy "I believe in the apocalypse"
type of religious person,
and It scares me witless to think of some
whacked-out god-monkey having
access to America's immense arsenal.
Tell me you'll save us all, Bart.
Please.
The Worried Canadian
Tim Gauthier