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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Forthright who wrote (309836)	10/19/2002 4:12:07 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

That is exactly the right question: would you risk your life and your family's lives for this war, in Iraq, for example? I'm one of those who has no confidence in the honor or credibility of those leading us into what looks by their actions and rhetoric to be worldwide perpetual combat. I dont' like the fact that generations of Bushes have been war profiteers, and they are willingly still profiteering now, financially and politically, on the blood of Americans and non-Americans. In a true war, one not conducted purely for domestic political gain, you don't go campaigning around the country for November's elections, you concentrate on the life-death tasks at hand, and determine how to avoid conflict, or if it must be done how to do with maximum effectiveness. Once you have accepted, as you apparently have, the administration's notion that we need their version of warfare to "win the war on terrorism", the real question is: When will the war on terrorism be won? How will you know that the war has been won? Or, is this as many suspect simply a perpetual war for domestic personal and political gain. Try to answer that question, and you will begin to see some of the fallicies of the current rhetoric. You are obviously waiting for the Bush administration to tell you how to tell if the war has been won... Do you really think they'll do that? Answer: not if it's more profitable to keep the "war" going.