Now, Bhatt battles Bush

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">When I think about it in retrospect, I wonder why I initially accepted the invitation to join members of the US Congress, the President and other officials to attend the 51st National Prayer Breakfast. When I was invited to give a talk at Harvard, I refused, asserting that I would never set foot on the so-called and non-existing ‘Land of the Free and Home of the Brave’.<br /><br />Participating in such sessions with Bush is to condone Bush’s terrorism of demonic proportions around the globe, backed up by Western European nations in particular; it is to condemn the so-called terrorists (created by us) destroying the way of life and way of thinking of others, and to continue to believe that it is the white man’s burden to control the events of the world.I hope that wiser counsel will prevail and make Bush and his supporters understand that every dog has his day. America’ bullying ways must end. America has entered one of its worst periods of historical madness. Bush and his junta have succeeded in deflecting US anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein. It is perhaps one of the most clever eyewash exercises that a government has achieved with the help of its awesome propaganda machinery.<br /><br />Bush assured Americans that their standard of living would remain the same forever. If he doesn’t understand that this is not possible, we will all have to pay a very heavy price.<br />What’s at stake here is not an Axis of Evil, but oil, money and people’s lives. Saddam’s misfortune is to sit on the second biggest oilfield in the world. Bush wants it, plain and simple. To suggest that Baghdad represents any clear and present danger to its neighbours, and to the US or Britain, is like comparing an ant to an elephant. Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, if he’s still got them, will be peanuts by comparison with the stuff Israel or America could hurl at him at five minutes’ notice. And the effect could be the beginning of the end of the world.<br /><br /><span style="" font-style:="" italic="">delhitimes@indiatimes.com</span></div> </div>