The World Is Depending on Us to Defeat Bush

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Published on Monday, November 1, 2004 by CommonDreams.org

The World Is Depending on Us to Defeat Bush

by Norman Solomon

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1101-20.htm  

In the shadow of this election day, across the United States, millions of people are doing more than just hoping -- and more than just voting. With a vast array of activism, progressives have been struggling to make history by defeating the Bush regime.

I don’t know anyone who has enjoyed this election campaign. We’ll be glad to have it behind us. But what remains to be seen -- and what we have the power to make more likely between now and Tuesday night -- is the outcome that people around the world are deeply yearning for.

For those of us living in the United States, amid all the tedium and debates and acrimony of this election year, losing sight of bigger pictures has been easy. But the consequences of choices will soon become clear.

Bush can be defeated. The world is depending on us to make it happen.

Last week, Left Business Observer editor Doug Henwood interviewed the insightful anti-imperialist writer Tariq Ali on WBAI Radio in New York. Ali, a leading international activist for several decades and the author of “Bush in Babylon” and “The Clash of Fundamentalisms,” addressed progressives in the USA. “This is what I constantly say when I'm in this country to people on the left: Look, you have a responsibility to the rest of the world as well. This is no time to fool around. ... Do not mimic the imperial rulers of your country and think exclusively about yourselves and your own interests, whatever these may be. ... Just look at the situation globally and ask yourselves this: Would a defeat for George W. Bush -- how would this defeat be seen in the world?”

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1. New Zealand Votes

Two votes from New Zealand for Kerry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!