Dear Mr Bush (I'd say President Bush if you had actually been elected),

I've been asked to give advice to you on touching down in Britain. It is this. Go home. You aren't wanted here. You aren't wanted anywhere else either, but you may have been misunderinformed that Britain was the one place where you would be welcomified. Wrong. Well, presumably your best pal Tony welcomes you. But that's about it. Your motorcades, your helicopters, your triggerhappy guards will try to protect you from the people of Britain, who would otherwise spoil the photo-ops for the folks back home. But be in no doubt. We despise you here too. After you and Jeb stole the election (by a margin smaller than the number of folks you executed in Texas) you were rightly written off as a one-term president: a fair advertisement for Drunks For Jesus but otherwise an idle nonentity; inarticulate, unintelligent, an ignorant hick. September 11 changed all that. Not that you covered yourself with glory that day. You are said to admire Churchill. Can you imagine Churchill, at such a moment, panicking all around the country from airbase to airbase? Even nasty old Rummy bunkered down where he belonged.

Never mind, your puppeteers from the Project for the New American Century recognised the opportunity they had been waiting for. September 11 was your golden Pearl Harbor. This was how you'd get elected in 2004 (not re-elected, elected). You would announce a War on Terror. American troops would win. And you would be the victorious warlord, swaggering in a flight suit before a Mission Accomplished banner.

It worked in Afghanistan. But then those puppeteers moved on to their long-term project: Iraq. Never mind that you had to lie about weapons of mass destruction. Never mind that Iraq had not the smallest connection with 9/11. The good folks back home would never know the difference between Saddam and Osama. You would ride the paranoid patriotism aroused by 9/11 all the way into Iraq, and hand out oil and reconstruction contracts to Dick Cheney's boys. That escapade is now backfiring horribly, as many of us said it would. No wonder young American travellers are sewing Canadian flags to their rucksacks. What we in Britain won't forgive is that you have dragged us down too. Go home.
Richard Dawkins
Scientist


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1087862,00.html

Well done Zak-as a brit who has lived in th US for 12 years now-I am tired of all the BS.What could be a great country is undermined by lies,propaganda and constantly being told this the greatest country on the planet.You have said it like it is-which by the way I cannot do-free country????

I'm a U.S. citizen living in Fl., of all places, and I think history will record "Dubya" as the worst president of all times. Its shocking and shameful that he has any support at all but I'm afraid he has lots of it, especially in the south. Now that Nader is
back in the race we may be going through the same thing agian this November as last time. The new ballot machines are all computerized and there is no paper trail. A recount won't be possibe. I love this country and I hate to see it run by this little reformed drunk chicken hawk gay bashing coward. The party he represents is just as evil. Say a prayer for us. I can't imagine 4 more years of him at the helm.