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Open letter to George W Bush [Mar. 23rd, 2003|09:40 pm]
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Dear Mr Bush,

I just thought I'd write you an open letter because I was wondering how many more Britons you were planning on killing in this war of yours.

You probably haven't heard of Norfolk - not the one in Virginia, I mean the English county I spent seven years living in, the one that's absolutely riddled with air bases. One of them (one of the few that hasn't closed in recent years) is RAF Marham. That's somewhere you might have heard of, quite recently, in a briefing. At least, I hope you have. A Tornado jet based out of Marham has just been shot down by an American Patriot missile. The two crew members are currently listed as missing in action. Nice one Dubya.

Tomorrow my Beloved Other Half Lisa will go into work. It won't be much fun there - US Marines have just killed one of her colleagues, reporter Terry Lloyd. He was doing his job near Basra and Marine Corp tanks fired on his vehicle, destroying it. The cameraman made it back to Coalition lines to describe what happened. Lloyd's body is reported to be in a Basra hospital. He was 50, had two children, and was the reporter who first told the world about the evil of Saddam when he reported on gas attacks against Kurdish civilians in 1988 - which did him precisely no good at all today when your forces spotted him. Nice one Dubya.

I hope you're enjoying your war, Mr Bush. I can't say I am.

Yours,

Andy Darley
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[User Picture]From: [info]white_hart
2003-03-23 01:52 pm (UTC)

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That really stinks. Well, so does everything about this war, but I'm even more shocked and saddened to hear that news.
[User Picture]From: [info]kittynic
2003-03-23 03:34 pm (UTC)

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*hugs*
[User Picture]From: [info]samphirette
2003-03-23 05:02 pm (UTC)

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I couldn't believe it when I got home tonight and hubby said the americans had shot down a british plane :( Couldn't they have learnt the first time around honestly!!!

I hadn't heard about the reporter :( That's really sad *hugs*
[User Picture]From: [info]kittybitch
2003-03-24 12:05 am (UTC)

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My sentiments exactly. The awful thing is, I was only saying afew days ago (in jest really) that this sort of thing would happen. Such a tragic turn of events *hugs to you and Lisa*