letter to editor - Michael Laws Column, Star Times


No Praise For Bush
From LARRY ROSS, January 18, 2004

Sir,
In praising President Bush for spending billions of U.S. taxpayers dollars to send a man to Mars,
Michael Laws (SST 18/1/04) overlooks more vital issues facing America and the world.

  1. Bush launching an illegal, unjustified and continuing war and occupation of Iraq, killing thousands,
    and making a terrorist incubator? Are international law, the U.N. Charter and war crimes now obsolete
    - at least for the U.S.?
  2. Famous UK physicist, Stephen Hawking predicted that in a 100 years earth would be like Venus
    unless we spend billions on massive efforts to stop global warming and guarantee a liveable planet.
  3. Spending billions on sending a man to Mars, is just a glamorization of Bush's plans to dominate
    and militarise space. It's a diversionary tactic to draw people's attention away from Bush's deceits
    and war crimes and earn brownie points in the race to the November elections. It would also create
    a giant pork barrell in the sky so that Bush friends could get lucrative space contracts, and then
    donate more money to Bush's Republican Party.
  4. Bush is responsible for the greatest deficit in U.S. history. Adding more debt would burden future
    generations of the U.S. taxpayers and threaten world financial stability.


    Larry Ross, Secretary,
    NZ Nuclear-Free Peacemaking
  

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