Ted, <However, have you noticed that there are some sports and hollywood stars who complain they never get any respect, and then there are guys like Michael Jordan or Tom Hanks who rarely get dissed.>
MJ and Tom Hanks do what they do best: play basketball and act, respectively.
Ten, I wasn't comparing careers.
To become president of a world superpower is by definition to become embroiled in controversial issues. In comparison, MJ and Tom have it easy.
Oh BS.......we got interwined with Saddam in the 80s not because he was controversial. We got embroiled/intertwined with Saddam in the 80s because we wanted Iran put down. In other words, we were stirring things up in the Middle East in order to keep things off balance. Whether its a person or a nation that plays like that, it usually comes back to haunt that person or nation.
<Well, may be the people need to pull in the reigns on the gov't so that its behavior more reflects the wishes of the American public.>
In case you haven't noticed, most Americans support the hard-line stance on Iraq.
In case you haven't noticed, Americans moderate that hardline with some caveats.....approvals from both Congress and the UN, and no unilateral action. There is too much questionable stuff in this whole Iraq affair to give Bush and his troops too much free reign.
Speaking of which, I e-mailed one of my uncles about the North Korea situation. He basically said that he doesn't trust the North at all, and wondered why Bush isn't taking a hard-line stance with N.Korea like he is with Iraq. He also doesn't like the "sunshine policy" of Kim Dae-Jung.
What's the hard line? War with N. Korea?
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