Heavy Hearts

Very heavy hearted about the news from America today. It seems that George Bush has won the election and will lead America for another four years..God help us. I feel greatly for the folk over there who have worked so hard to try and repair the damage done, and I know their sadness today will be profound.I simply wonder what Bush would have had to have done not to be re elected. How many more lies (and I’m not even talking about WMD), how many more members of his administration on the take, how many more American lives lost in Iraq, how many more Iraqi lives, how many more children loosing parents, or loosing their own lives because of what Donald Rumsfeld describes as the humanity of precision bombing. The concentrating on a few singular issues (not that they might not be important, but not as important as a greater evil) has ignored a whole picture. And yet all those millions have voted for him, I’m truly without understanding on this other than obvious rhetoric. It appears to me that the world is being torn in two and right now the conservatives have the day and they fill it with fear and misery. I don’t have a clue what to say to my audience in Dorset tonight. Maybe we should have a 2 minutes silence. Not that I, and many other folk were going to get off Kerry’s back had he won, but it seems like the end of an emotionally exhausting time for those who campaign against certain ideologies, and now we have to go again. So be it.