Bilow, re: "I voted for Bush twice, his dad twice more, and will vote Republican in the next election."
WHY???
You don't know who will be running as a Republican or Democrat. You don't know what their policies will be. You don't know what issues will be the most critical and what approaches will be effective in two years and yet you state, without qualification, that you will vote Republican in the next election.
That's only a little more silly than your posture in the last election. You remember, the one where you thought the Bush policy in Iraq was absurd and counter productive but that Bush would see the light and pull back, or be forced to pull back, from the brink of his costly and foolish efforts in Iraq. And, of course, you voted for him then.
Extreme loyalty to a sports team is cute. Loyalty to a friend or family member is understandable and even admirable, within limits. But devoted, set in stone, doglike loyalty to a political party is a mark of poor thinking or personality defects, especially during a time when we're involved in a wasteful, costly and undoable war of choice.
And, by the way, your rationale for why Bush 1 refused to take out Saddam is based on what? The quotes I've read from the book indicate that Bush 1 and his primary advisors understood the powderkeg of sectarian violence, radical Islamic movements and tribal conflicts that Saddam tried to keep a lid on and that they didn't want any part of blowing that dam and then trying to stop the water from flowing through the breach.
It appears that in your attempt to try to put some kind of rational face on the motives and strategies of an irrational administration you, once again, fall back on fantasy. Do you recall how you insisted that Bush wouldn't invade Iraq because to do so was insane? Do you recall how you insisted that Bush would pull back and pull out some time after the 2004 election because to refuse to do so would be such a poor choice? I do.
For you, when is enough, enough? Ed |
