Hey Americans, turn your brain on before voting! 'Think' as this black democrat American said on TV to a Bush supporter. And beware that the world will not simply sit back and relax if you actually do elect this self-proclaimed god-inspired war-monger this time. Doing so, with full knowledge of the consequences for justice and peace, is an uniquevocal message to the world that indeed the US has become the strong, but selfish and dangerous one in our world of nations.

The essence: by leading an illegal war and refusing to subject its forces to international jurisprudence (ICC), Bush has "transformed the multilateralist vision of globalization into an explicit plan for American military hegemony in the world that involved preemptive and preventive warfare, emphasized American national economic interest, and embraced unilateral action if efforts at international cooperation failed." (For insightful world news analysis, turn off BBC (don't even thing of CNN), and read the Power and Interest News Report).

Bush said the US was safer from terrorism than before the 2001 attacks. In truth, the U.S. aggressive tactics and strategy in Irak is aleniating the occupied populations and "producing more terrorists than we will ever be able to kill" (said George Soros, the Financier backing Kerry, read his book "Open Society, reforming Global Capitalism"). The war on terror is a political fantasy making the world a much more dangerous place than any time since the second world war.

The net result is that the US has "severely impaired its diplomatic resources", it has lost credibility. And so have Americans. So be prepared for more harassment when travelling in "friendly" countries, and more terror from unfriendly ones. I will travel to Montreal with Czech Airlines rather than with United. A minor step, but if everyone acts responsibly, the world can become a better place..

The goal of WWII was stopping Japan, Germany and Italy's militaristic and imperialistic ambitions. Maybe it is time to stop America's. "The Fiscal Year 2004 U.S. budget is $782 billion, $399 billion of which will go to the military. This "National Defense" category accounts for over half (51.0 percent) of all spending (next is Education: $55 billion. Health? $49 billion..see here) It is also more than the total sum spent by the next 22 countries: Russia $65b, China $47b, Japan $43b, UK $38b, France $30b, Germany $25b, Saudi Arabia $21b, Italy $19b, India $15b, .. Israel $11b, Canada $8b, Turkey $6b.. (Center for Defense Information U.S. Military Budget Still the World's Largest, and Growing)