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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (397467)4/23/2003 7:14:52 PM
From: Mark Konrad  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
American Spirit (the Kerry campaigner, not the cigarette), some of us are wondering if you'll respond to Gus' post. I've copied it and posted here for you and all:

To:American Spirit who wrote (397467)
From: Gus
Wednesday, Apr 23, 2003  4:58 PM
View Replies (3) | Respond to of 397717
World War II was our most popular war. Vietnam was our least popular war. World War II heroes have lost 2 of the last 3 Presidential elections.
What makes you think that the American people are willing to vote for a Vietnam war hero when our clear and decisive victories in the Cold War and the two Gulf Wars are in the process of repopulating our leadership pool with genuine war heroes -- even more decorated than Kerry -- who understand how to define clear missions?
In fact, to this day the unsung heroes of the Vietnam war are the decorated and undecorated people inside the military-industrial complex who bravely soldiered on after Vietnam to transform our conscript army often against the obstacles put up by liberals like Kerry who were spectacularly wrong about the Cold War and tragically wrong about the Middle East Wars.
It's actually quite telling when self-professed moderate liberals like you are actually celebrating the fact that Kerry voted with the majority but agreed with the minority during this war. Still in love with weasels after all these years, eh?

What makes you think that the American people are willing to vote for a Vietnam war hero whose voting record and rhetoric clearly shows that he is still painfully haunted by the wrong memories of a very unpopular war involving a conscript army with no clear mission?

The fact of the matter is that Kerry desperately needs the votes of the BLAME AMERICA FIRST crowd to win. Dubya doesn't.
Given the highly lethal poker games we have to play this decade to set up the new security arrangements we need for the 21st century, we simply can't afford to have Presidents like Clinton or Presidentiables like Kerry who can be gamed or played like cheap fiddles by our enemies because they desperately need the votes of the BLAME AMERICA crowd. The stakes are simply too high. More people now are exposed to the global financial markets than was the case in 1992 when Clinton managed to obscure his party's foreign policy existential crisis by focusing exclusively on the domestic economy. That impeached President was probably the most skillful liar in the history of our republic but even he couldn't stop his party from losing all 3 branches of government a decade after he won his first term.
The North Korean impasse is a perfect example. Notice how Kerry and his Democrats cynically tried to shame the Bush administration into using the same bilateral approach they supported during the Clinton administration after it failed miserably and resulted in a North Korea that is now trying to negotiate like a friggin' nuclear power which is confident that France, another friggin' nuclear power, is determine to create multi-polar world to counter an American hegemony that they can only see through the distorted prism of their past glories?
That's the kind of crap that can happen when the nucleus of your party is the BLAME AMERICA FIRST crowd. And you know somethin'? People can usually smell that kind of crap from miles and miles away..........
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