To: tejek who wrote (449920 ) 8/29/2003 10:50:06 AM From: Machaon Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667 You wrote:<font color=blue>"This is not wartime. That's another element in an exaggerated scenario that's intended to invalidate criticism and suppress dissent."<font color=black> 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.. You wrote:<font color=blue>"In case you haven't noticed, Bush is failing miserably."<font color=black> So far, Bush has been a very successful and effective leader. 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. You wrote:<font color=blue>"Iraq is in an uproar and has become a cause celebre for the Islam world"<font color=black> 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. You wrote:<font color=blue>"N. Korea is playing games with us and poses a serious threat to S. Korea;"<font color=black> 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? 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. What possibly could have been distracting Clinton from doing his job?