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Author slams Bush
22/10/2004 06:40 - (SA)
Los Angeles - British spy novelist John Le Carre branded US President George W Bush as America's most "universally hated" leader and urged voters to kick him out of office next month.
The author of global best sellers such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy launched the stinging attack on the US leader and his war in Iraq in an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
"Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated abroad as Bush: For his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of other nations and cultures," Le Carre wrote in the online article.
He also accused Bush of having "contempt for institutions of world government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order to unleash an illegal war - and now anarchy - upon Iraq.
"Maybe there's one good reason - just one - for re-electing George W Bush, and that's to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling actions and answer for his own lies," le Carre fumed.
The editorial also slammed British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support for the war in Iraq and lashed Bush for eroding US civil rights through the Patriot Act.
In the piece that appeared less than two weeks before the closely-contested November 2 presidential election, the author urged Americans to come in from the cold by kicking out Bush.
"Give us back the America we loved, and your friends will be waiting for you," he said.
- AFP
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