Eshin Direct

Via OrdinaryGweilo.com.

Apparently, the Guardian took a somewhat foolish initiative to try and sway undecided voters in Clark County, Ohio by sending them letters from people abroad who would plead with them to vote against Bush. It was imaginatively called Operation Clark County. An admirable but rather a stupid idea, as can be seen by some of the responses to this initiave listed here.

Some of these comments are rather amusing.

Consider this: stay out of American electoral politics. Unless you would like a company of US Navy Seals – Republican to a man – to descend upon the offices of the Guardian, bag the lot of you, and transport you to Guantanamo Bay, where you can share quarters with some lonely Taliban shepherd boys.

Must be frightening to be scared of some Taliban shepherd boys. Americans have always overestimated their Special Forces. The SAS and the French Foreign Legion have always made bitches of every US SF unit that they’ve had wargames with. Oh, by the way, how’s the search for Osama going?

THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS HAVE SPENT TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS PROTECTING THE PEOPLES OF THE EU, AND WHAT DO WE GET IN RETURN. BETRAYAL, BETRAYAL, BETRAYAL. I HAVE BEEN TO YOUR COUNTRY, THE COUNTRY OF MY ANCESTORS, AND I KNOW WHY THEY LEFT.

MAY YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TOOTH CAPPED. I UNDERSTAND IT TAKES AT LEAST 18 MONTHS FOR YOUR GREAT MEDICAL SERVICES TO GET AROUND TO YOU. HAVE A GREAT DAY.

So we don’t get the right choose to not be grateful to US meddling in our affairs? Choice is a right only afforded to those residing in the US it would seem. Actually, if the UK was the country of this writer’s ancestors, they probably were kicked out for being Puritan dimwits. But must be careful, the deadly curse of having a tooth capped is already intimidating me. Wonder if this is why the caliber of the US SF isn’t all that high. They’ve been going around Afghanistan threatening tooth cappings. But to Taliban shepherd boys, I hear it is the stuff of their nightmares.

Yes, while we might have to wait a little longer, we don’t charge people for the privilege of basic health care.

I used to visit the UK every year. I love the history and culture of your country. But after I heard about your campaign to influence our elections, I’ve decided that neither myself, nor my family will ever visit again. I’m offended by your campaign and because of it, I’m remembering more of the negative aspects I’ve seen in the UK than the positive ones. Though I still love the castles!

Oh you’ll be back. You’ll miss the castles too much. We love ‘em too. But really, try to stay true to your promise and don’t come back. Just keeping sending over all that aid you give us. We really love that!

As a US citizen, I want to advise you that you and anyone that participates in subverting the US presidential election can be criminally charged and perhaps even charged as spies.

Hmm. English (US or UK) has never really been a strong point in the US. Perhaps it’s that “no child left behind” policy that you’ve been talking about so much. Spies need to do some spying in order for them to be spies. Go figure, eh?

As for subverting your way of governing yourselves, perhaps you should have told that to your leaders when they went into Iraq. Isn’t so nice people telling you what to do, is it? Shall we expect the US Army any time soon in the streets of London? You haven’t visited us for a while and we’re feeling all neglected.

Your idea is superb and frankly, we need a little help over here right now.

Ideally, we’d like to come and liberate you. It’s unfair that you have to do all the liberating around the world by yourselves with no-one to watch over you during your own time of elections. We’ll send some troops to oversee your elections. We shall also provide the candidate of our choice with personnel from our own security forces and equipment from our armories.

Real Americans aren’t interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it.

Right. So can we say that the special relationship with you guys is over? We do very much want to save the world and we thought we were starting with our own worthless part of it by sorting out these elections that you seem to be holding in it. Oh, you seem to care. Does that make you a fake American?

However, as a parting note…

I enjoy reading your paper and agree with your politics, but this is really too much.Your plan, if carried out, will hurt the Bush opposition TERRIBLY. We cannot afford to have this associated with John Kerry or anyone else. It will be; the press is going in for a kill, days before the election.

This reader is actually correct. It really is irresponsible of The Guardian to do such a thing. Again, media owners should be called to account for their actions. If we’re stuck with Bush for another four years because Ohio tipped the balance in favour of Dubya, then heads should roll.

I guess those Americans just don’t like having people telling them how to run their country. Funny, the Afghans and Iraqis had sort of the same idea.

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