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Entry: Buyers' Remorse? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/buyers_remorse#5133 Post contents: Some of us never "bought it" to begin with, and spoke out long before many other conservatives began to do so. Here's a copy of an email letter I sent to the US Embassy in London during Bush's visit there in November 2003: To: George W. Bush c/o: The Embassy of the United States, London Dear Mr. Bush: I owe it to my friends in the United Kingdom, where I lived as a welcomed guest for many years, to write to you through my country's Embassy in London and tell you: You do not represent me, or the laws or ideals of the United States. This is not just a matter of courtesy to my British friends. It is also my duty as an American patriot. You lied to the American people, to lead us into an illegal war in Iraq, against Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, to which the United States is bound under Article 6 of the US Constitution. If my country does not stand for the rule of law, it stands for nothing. Furthermore: I visited Britain last summer, and was horribly embarrassed as I received news - in the company of my British friends - of ongoing atrocities at America's concentration camp at Guantanamo, where the US Constitution and International Law have been arbitrarily and indefinitely suspended. You are responsible for this, for betraying America's founding principles and compelling me to apologise to our foreign friends and allies for America's lapse into barbaric tyranny. We, the American people, are not barbarian. You are. Finally: I was appalled yesterday when I heard your speech in London, when you reminded your British hosts of the joke they told about American soldiers in Britain during the Second World War, that the Yanks were "oversexed." Are you and your speechwriters all so boorish and idiotic, not to understand how offensive that remark was? Don't you understand, that some the British soldiers - many of whom fought longer and harder than our boys did - lost the company of their women to American men, simply because the Americans were better paid? This was an unspeakably vulgar thing to say. My father, Sergeant John D Ball Jr of the Eighth US Army Air Corps, was stationed in England during the war, and had too much respect for his RAF friends to say anything as vulgar as your remark. Of course, they were his friends; but if my father had been so foolish as to speak as you did, he also knew, the RAF would have beaten him senseless. You, Mr. Bush, are a disgrace to my country and an offense to the British people. After you leave Britain, if you have any decency, you should never return to Britain again. Sincerely yours, John D Ball III (That was in 2003. Anyone have any more accusations of my being a "neocon fellow traveler" now?) Sent at: 2008 11 22