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Originally posted by RawAlex@Aug 21 2004, 01:00 PM
Mike, your "decisive leader" is in all likelyhood the major cause of many of the perils the US faces today. His unbending attatchment to his beliefs, even in the face of proof to the contrary, frustrates and alienates many in the world. He can cover up his cowboy mentality on world politics by using such wonderful cover phrases as "coalition of the willing" and "nations from all over the world", but realistically his actions in Iraq have been those of a lonely, stand alone bully. Only his closest "friends" stand with him, and they don't even like it (see Tony Blair's political life slowly slipping away because he got too far under the covers with Bush).

Bush and his crew have spent the last 2 years trying to convince the world that their actions in Iraq are "all about 9/11". There are enough people out there dumb enough to think that Saddam was directly responsible for 9/11 - and nobody in the republican party is going to correct them. They want people to see Saddam, BinLadin, and the 9/11 hijackers as the same enemy, so they can freely go out and avenge the 2600 or so people who died horribly in New York (down from the original 5000... how the heck can they be off by 50%?).

Have you heard bush as WMD lately?

have you seen Colin Powell at all lately?

Nope.

While that is all going on, on the home front the President lowers taxes for the rich, and spends like there is no tomorrow. All sorts of new agencies, groups, departments, and organizations have sprung up, yet the old ones are all still there. The size of government has swelled... and so has the deficit.

You don't know what Kerry would do. Considering how many deals are made in the Senate to get this or that done, a voting record is rarely a clear indication of the man. Everyone likes to talk about the "Kerry voted NOT to give money to the troops" - what they don't point out was that is was a Whitehouse blank check request that the Senate should have said no to. Taken out of context, it looks like he hates the military. In reality, he was standing up against a bigger abuse, and that is never spoken about.

Unless you can see the future, you don't know what Kerry would do. I know what Bush has done for your country, and I am pretty sure you guys can't handle another four years of this stuff.

Alex

Mike i agree with parts of this, i know you are a Bush supporter, but the republicans really have nothing but ad hominem argments to stand on when it comes to the "war on terror". I would even go as far as to say that the aily reports of casualties are helping his campaign, as it tugs the heatstrings of Americans far and wide, and keeps what Bush has pushed to the forefront, the war on terror, in the actual center ring of the media circus. Thats how out of control this has become.