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for you. The use of scare tactics and name
calling to coax people into voting for your
candidate is not the way to go.
So tell me again why I should vote for
your man Kerry and please don’t tell me
“because he’s not Bush.”
Mike McGlone
Eugene
EVERY VOTE COUNTS
I’m from Florida where in 2000 George
W. Bush “won” against Al Gore by around
500 votes. Some 90,000 Floridians voted
for Ralph Nader. Even if just 1 percent of
these Nader votes had gone for Gore, we
wouldn’t have W. and Cheney in the White
House making war against all but the
wealthiest Americans, innocent Iraqis, U.S.
military veterans, public health, civil rights,
AMTRAK, endangered species, wildlife,
national forests, national parks, etc.
Four years ago, Nader was telling vot-
ers: “Bush & Gore — Tweedle Dum &
Tweedle Dee; there’s no difference so vote
for me. Vote your conscience, vote your
dreams.” In this world, in order to be rele-
vant, persons of conscience should con-
sider the likely consequences of their ac-
tions and inactions.
Those who knew W.’s record in Texas
aren’t surprised his presidency has turned out
to be a disaster. As Molly Ivins puts it in
Bushwhacked, her new book about W.’s
mean-spirited, stupid, and crooked dealings,
“If more people had read Shrub, my first Bush
book, they wouldn’t have to read this one.”
For the good of the country, Nader
should do like Dennis Kucinich, and ask
his supporters to vote for Kerry-Edwards.
Ralph Nader is not going to be elected pres-
ident of the U.S. Either W. or Kerry will be.
Every vote counts one way or the other.
Richard Hiers
Eugene
NO TIME LEFT
Ten years ago our nation stood by and
watched as genocide claimed the lives of
800,000 in Rwanda. Once more we prom-
ised, “Never again.” Now we are seeing the
start of another genocide, this time in the
Darfur region of Sudan. President Bush has
been unwilling to call it genocide, and
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rather than taking the strong actions needed
to stop it, he is proposing a round of sanc-
tions against those responsible.
Time is running out for the people of
Darfur. They are trapped in starvation
camps controlled by their captors. President
Bush needs to call this genocide and lead a
multinational effort to stop it, including the
use of the military if necessary. If he fails to
do that, a million more may die.
Julie Mathey
Eugene
YOU’RE FIRED!
All citizens who fear for the future of our
country and the world must register and
vote this November. Bush and his neo-cons
must be fired before they do irreparable
damage to our country. Bush has endan-
gered and weakened this country in more
ways than 250 words can convey. He is a
walking contradiction.
He’s a “uniter-not-a-divider” who has
united the world in its disdain for America,
and divided us into conservatives and liber-
als, haves and have-nots. He is a self-pro-
claimed pro-life president who governed
Texas through a shameful number of execu-
tions. Pro-life, yet he is responsible for the
deaths of nearly 1,000 American soldiers
and countless Iraqi families for his preemp-
tive, unjustified war. Pro-life, yet does noth-
ing to stem the slaughter in the Sudan.
Bush favors states’ rights when it comes
to logging, mining, ranching and oil
drilling, but favors amending our
Constitution to allow the federal govern-
ment to prevent states from legislating mar-
riage laws that he and his fundamentalist
Christian base find objectionable.
Polls indicate voters are evenly split be-
tween Bush and Kerry, but the polls don’t
consider the untapped segment of the nation
that could vote but don’t exercise that right.
You who will be turning 18 before this elec-
tion, or who are homeless, or who may face
a military draft next year, or anyone eligible
to vote who has never voted before, please
register and vote. Encourage others to vote.
Then we will be able to tell Bush and his
cronies “you’re fired” this November.
Cynthia Armento
Veneta