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To: unclewest who wrote (94038)4/16/2003 9:31:12 PM
From: Ish  Respond to of 281500
 
I sent this to my local paper-

Lots of world leaders and lots of our own liberals have branded President Bush as a cowboy. I lean to the right and I brand him the same.

Cowboy. A guy who wakes up in the morning, figures out what's wrong and saddles up or loads his truck and works on fixing it, no matter how bad the conditions are. Just like the other Americans who are linemen, police and firemen, farmers and even byte heads who pull all nighters to fix our computers. Cowboy is an attitude, you don't need to wear spurs to be one.

President Bush saw a problem with Iraq, actually more problems than we'll ever know, and he went in and is solving them. The whole world, outside of Tony Blair, John Howard of Australia, and Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, who all sent troops, knew the coalition forces would be slaughtered. Several other countries let us use their native soil for bases. We need to remember those countries in the future.

What's happened so far? Saddam and his regime of terror is gone. Iraq can build a government OF and For the people now. A lot of terrorist backing is gone. Syria shifted a little more pro American today. Yep, cowboy Bush cleaned out Iraq and has a whole lot more to say about the terrorism in the Middle East. President Bush is a cowboy? Then saddle up America and get ready to ride.



To: unclewest who wrote (94038)4/16/2003 9:43:59 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
First of all, I didn't say that. Second, where does the $20 billion figure come from? The $75 billion was the only figure I recall from W, and he kept that under wraps until the war started. They just couldn't say before that.