Collateral Damage of US elections 2004

The race is tight, opinion polls show. But an average American mind who lives in the midwest knows the difference between a Bush and a Kerry win.

The northeastern, urban yuppie mindset may try to push Kerry into the Whitehouse. It well may succeed also, but the real battle is not going to be won trying to climb New York’s slick skyscrapers, in fact it lies in successfully chasing the Bison across the Prairies as if each one of them was a vote for Bush albeit America’s future and the horizon the American dream.

If elected George W Bush will be answerable to no one, come to think of it. He undoubtedly will see his reelection as a mandate to push the country further to the right. He has nothing to lose. In 2008 his presidency will ride into the sunset with our without the sunshine and the jellybeans.

Bush -- who has injected religion into public affairs more than any US president has in modern times -- is expected to continue his messianic mission in the White House. He will blur even more the separation of church and state.

There will be only one way to read the election results if he wins: The world will see his victory as an affirmation by the American people of his disastrous preemptive war policy, which led the United States to invade Iraq without provocation.

The U.S. attack on Iraq is a clear violation of international law and has made it helpless to condemn others for similar acts. The Iraq war also destroyed the hard-won global anti-terror coalition. It has made the United States even more unpopular in the international community than its war in Vietnam. The 21st century is not the ’American century’ as Dick Cheney and his motley group of neocon buddies would like to dream about. It belongs to all those who cherish freedom, justice, economic parity and social equality, not just American democracy and pursuit of life, liberty and happiness, only the American way.

If he wins reelection, Bush may see his victory as a signal to follow the neo-conservative dream of a political transformation of the Middle East through military force.

That means other’s life, lifestyle, values and cultures will be replaced by a one-size-fits-all Anglo-Saxon formula packaged to accommodate changing environment and expanding boundaries.

But "the United Nations appears to have cast its vote in the US presidential election this week.. It used 377 [US] tons of high-grade Iraqi explosives to announce its opposition to re-electing George W Bush."

Some say it was UN’s revenge for having been bypassed in perhaps the 21st century’s most important decision...the Iraq War.

Indian astrologers say the planets have clearly made up their mind: John Kerry will win. “The planets Mercury and Mars in the fifth and third house have exchanged positions. Success in competition is certain ... Kerry will be the new president, " said astrologer Lachhman Das Madan of India.

Despite his vehement denials, Bush may be compelled to call for another military draft if he persists in making war.

More and more Arabs and Muslims may also move out of America either to Canada or back to their former homeland, having sensed an ever increasing loss of dignity due to growing racial and religious bias.

Bush reelection will only speed up that process.

The marked polarity existent in different strata of the American society will not end with the elections, in fact will increase as more and more ’preemptive strikes’ by Bush and his neocon buddies dot the overseas real estates in the name of war against terrorism.

Granted that Bush as a born-again Christian has the right and the moral authority to consider every move and decision he makes for his country as vetted and cleared by God and therefore morally right and justified. So does those who invoke Allah or Bhagvan, no?

In September 2001 an American attorney matter-of-factly told me that those who were responsible for 9/11 and their sympathizers could not be judged by America’s moral standards and laws. They had to be judged differently, he said.

Ironically, regardless of who wins the US elections 2004, America will continue to define those moral standards by which others across the Atlantic will be judged and treated rightly or wrongly.

Given that United States has refused to join the International Criminal Court of Justice in Hague, so that it is not answerable and/or accountable to anyone for all its actions and deeds during wars across the seven continents, the world shall therefore become for US a happy hunting ground for all times to come. Long live Fox News and Lady Liberty!