Chatterjee for the next generation

Hello, this is Dr. Chat, and I am running for Congress from District 2 in Arizona. The extreme right wing Republicans have stolen our great Jeffersonian Constitutional Republic out from under us while we were busy raising our families and making ends meet with more than one job. They have a very narrow agenda that suits no one save a few of their own, and least of all our nation. Through this utterly self-serving process, over just the past six years, they have made us a laughing stock in the world and eroded all that we stand for. They have frittered away the moral and ethical high ground we built between Pearl Harbor Day, December 7, 1941, and the end of the Clinton era at noon on January 20, 2001. We built this great wave of love the world had for our great nation through:

• Winning World War II,
• The Lend-Lease Agreements where we literally gave away arms to fight the Axis Powers,
• The Marshall Plan,
• The Berlin Airlift,
• Winning the Space Race in every way,
• Leading the world in technology and other innovations,
• The creation of Israel as a haven for the downtrodden Jews who were slaughtered by the Nazis,
• Keeping the world on an even keel and moderate,
• being the beacon for the world,
• The Peace Corps,
• US Agency for International Development (AID),
• The Committee for American Relief Everywhere (CARE),
• Fulbright Scholarships,
• the Public Law-480 Food Aid,
• saving at least half of Korea from the damnation that is now North Korea,
• Taiwan,
• rebuilding Japan and Germany,
• fighting and stopping communism through staring down Krushchev and removing the missiles in Cuba,
• stopping the communists cold through sacrificing 58,000 of our lives in Vietnam,
• the famous handshake between Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat brought about by President Carter,
• the bringing down of the Berlin Wall,
• Glasnost and Perestroika,
• the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO),
• SEATO and CENTO in Asia,
• the Organization of African States,
• creating the United Nations,
• creating the North and South American New World alliances and treaties,
• and so much more, you can fill in the rest!!!

Show me one thing these brainless people in the current administration and their cronies in Congress have done remotely close to the list above. They have us bogged down in a useless war in Iraq in the name of saving us from terrorism (they wrongly call it 'terror') when they should be making real friends who help us find the real enemy, Osama Bin Laden. Instead, we make more new enemies every day by driving moderate Muslims into the arms of their right wing fundamentalists. The honest truth is that the right wing people in power today in the USA are just as crazy and driven by religious fanaticism as those whom they claim to be our enemies in the right wing in Islam.

They use the heinous attack of September 11, 2001, purely towards their own ends and aggrandizement. Look around you and learn this fact. They say they have shored up our FEMA for the next terror attack on our soil and show how terrible they are at rudimentary planning and management through their apalling response to Hurricane Katrina. They blatantly violate Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) by awarding billions in no-bid contracts to their cronies like Halliburton. Why does no one ask how this happens, and no Congress proceedings are initiated?

We need to regain our rightful place on the world stage instead of being what we have become, ignored and ridiculed the world over because we have chosen sides now by saying things like "bring it on", "either you are for us or against us", etc. Guess who said these words? Our useless leader, George Bush, who claims to be Ivy League educated but shows no evidence of the same.

Rosa Parks is my #1 hero and she showed me that one person can indeed change the world. So, after seeing the above being done to the country and its citizens whom I love dearly, I decided I will no longer sit and watch this happen; I will go to Washington and drive the changes myself. I have done this before in corporate America as an engineer, computer scientist, and executive, and in our leading universities as a professor for the last 35 years (yes, MY two jobs for over three decades which kept me distracted). Now, with your help and support, I want to do it in DC. Please see my web site at http://www.drchat2006.org/ and read more, contribute generously as we are now at 29 days to the AZ primary and 89 days to the general election, and above comment and blog here. Once elected, I plan to listen closely to my constituents on a weekly basis, and in person as much as possible. I see today's elected officials ignoring their voters and boondoggling all over on our money. I will use our money to meet and hear you. Period.