WHAT PIEDRIVER WANTS

On the eve of the USA's unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Iraq, I can't help but feel that things would probably be different if the man leading us into war, President George W. Bush, didn't take so much money from the oil companies when he ran for president (and lost).

See, the issue isn't whether Saddam Hussein is a bad person. He's a dictator who has done bad things before and will do bad things again. The issue isn't so much the resistance of the international community. US diplomacy has always set itself apart from its European counterparts (except Britain) and will continue to do so.

The issue is that George W. Bush's administration takes so much money and influence from outside the White House (Haliburton, Enron, Eli Lilly, and most of the oil companies) that it is impossible to take anything he or his administration says at face value. He does not speak for the American people, he speaks for his investors.

President Bush runs the most corrupt administration in more than fifty years and this war is not only without legal or diplomatic precedent, but it comes from a man who is more interested in protecting his campaign contributors from prosecution (ala Enron) than fixing a system that encourages the widespread robbery of hardworking Americans everywhere.

To say no to the war on Iraq is to say no to George W. Bush and his corrupt administration. Speaking out against a government we find at fault is a fundamental building block of our country (see the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Vietnam War), as well as an exercise in our First Amendment Rights (which are under fire from this same government).

Stand up. Let your voice be heard. Say NO to WAR with Iraq.

- Pie Driver Dave, 3/18/2003