You wrote:"This is not wartime. That's another element in an exaggerated scenario that's intended to invalidate criticism and suppress dissent."
Not wartime? Tell that to the families of the victims of 9/11 and to the families of our soldiers fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. You epitomize the average Democrat, who won't take the terrorist threat seriously until there is a mushroom cloud over Washington D.C..
Relax yourself......you're hysterical and overwrought. Yes, 9/11 was a horrific event. Yes, the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan involve our soldiers in foreign places. However, if that were the criteria for war and that meant during those wars, we as a people could never exercise our inalienable right to dissent than we best become passive and sickeningly agreeable and complacent asap. That's because what you call war is what we experience most of the time as THE superpower policing the world.
However, until such time as this country is under physical attack and really at war, I will continue to exercise my right to disagree with my gov't.
You wrote:"In case you haven't noticed, Bush is failing miserably."
So far, Bush has been a very successful and effective leader.
You're in serious denial. A good portion of the nation and most of the world don't agree with you.
If Gore had been in office, I am positive that the Taliban and Al Qaeda would still own Afghanistan, Saddam would still be preparing WMD for use against America and Israel, and one or more American cities would have been attacked by terrorists.
If Gore were in office, our allies would be helping us in Iraq. Better yet, there would be no Iraq because the weapon inspectors would have finished their jobs and proven to us what has cost us $100+ billion under Bush.
You wrote:"Iraq is in an uproar and has become a cause celebre for the Islam world"
America will roar louder. You are right, though. Iraq will be a cause celebre when it becomes a successful democracy. Will it take a long time, be costly and be painful. Yes it will. The cost of bringing freedom and democracy to the world is well worth it.
Not to me.........not to many others. For us, Iraqi democracy is not worth 100s of billions of dollars. We'll see next year how the majority of the American public feels about this horrendous waste of money.
You wrote:"N. Korea is playing games with us and poses a serious threat to S. Korea;"
Hmmm!? Now let me see...... Who was President when America decided to pay North Korea hundreds of millions of dollars in blackmail, if they would not develop nuclear weapons? Could it have been Clinton? Did Clinton announce to the American people that he was allowing America to be blackmailed by North Korea? Did Clinton make sure that America would benefit from allowing itself to be blackmailed?
Hmmmmmmmm......who's the president who stirred up an hornet's nest with his abrasive commentary starting with the "axis of evil"? If they gave presidents grades, Bush would be taking International Diplomacy 101 over again in summer school.
N. Korea is all Bush's playpen.....let's see how he gets us out of that mess. Another war, anyone?
Stupid is as stupid does!
While Americans were paying hundreds of millions of dollars in blackmail (oil) payments to North Korea for not building nuclear weapons, Clinton was getting BJs in the White House, and North Korea WAS building nuclear weapons.
I'd rather my president be getting BJs in the White House than jumping on aircraft carriers as top gun. It costs us much less and lets our troops get home sooner.
What possibly could have been distracting Clinton from doing his job?
The longest peacetime expansion since WW II, the lowest unemployment rate since the 60s, the smallest numbers of people on welfare, etc Just imagine what he could have done had he not been distracted! |
