The aftermath of the US presidential elections

My letter on the US presidential elections published in the Seattle Weekly and the UW Daily. Both papers did a little bit of editing thou...

Seattle Weekly: http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/printme.php3?eid=58309

One can argue that the economy is in a temporary recession and by continuing the conservatives' policy it will soar, and that Kerry was not the best deal. Yet, with all the civil rights abuse facts and cases, wrong international decisions, unjustified war, and conflicts with allies, Bush still got the popular vote. I think this is a clear message to the world and to the immigrants that the majority of the people agree with the Bush administration's various unjustified policies.

Moustafa Khalil
Seattle

The Daily of the University of Washington:
http://thedaily.washington.edu/opinion.lasso?-database=DailyWebSQL&-table=Articles&-response=opinionpage.lasso&-keyField=__Record_ID__&-keyValue=10702&-search

One can argue that the economy is in a temporary recession and by continuing the conservative's policy it will soar, and that Sen. John Kerry was not the best deal. Yet, with all the civil rights abuse facts and cases, wrong international decisions, unjustified war, conflicts with allies and with President Bush insisting and defining some of his wrong-doings, he still got the popular vote. I think this is a clear message to the world that the majority of the people agree with the Bush administration's various unjustified policies.

Moustafa Khalil
Alumnus, '04,
M.S. information management